Loyce Smith heard about the Clark County Department of Family Services' tremendous need for visitation space for foster children and their biological families, so she urged United Methodist Social Ministries, where she works as executive director, to remodel an abandoned modular building into a family room.

The Fostering and Faith Visitation Room, located at 4412 S. Maryland Parkway, opened two months ago as family services' first satellite visitation center. Mark Lissor, the county's visitation supervisor, said he hopes this is the first of a handful of other satellite visitation centers to open around the valley.