Community Mediation Services
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Community Mediation:
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Community mediation offers constructive
processes for resolving differences and conflicts between individuals,
groups, and organizations.
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Community mediation is an alternative to
avoidance, destructive confrontation, prolonged litigation or violence.
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Community mediation gives people in conflict
an opportunity to take responsibility for the resolution of their
dispute and control of the outcome.
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Community mediation is designed to preserve
individual interests while strengthening relationships and building
connections between people and groups, and to create processes that make
communities work for all of us.
What disputes are suitable
for mediation?
A wide range of disputes are suitable for
mediation, including:
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neighbors
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family
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adolescents
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workplace
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voluntary or community organizations
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business
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civil and small claims
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where there is an ongoing relationship
As a community
mediation center we:
- We use trained community volunteers as
the primary providers of mediation services.
- We strive to have our mediators, staff
and board be representative of the diversity of the community served.
- We providing direct access to the
public through self-referral and strive to reduce barriers to service
including physical, linguistic, cultural, programmatic and economic.
- We provide service to clients
regardless of their ability to pay.
- We initiate, facilitate and educate
for collaborative community relationships to effect positive systemic
change.
- We engage in public awareness and
educational activities about the values and practices of mediation.
- We providing a forum for dispute
resolution at the earliest stage of conflict.
- We provide an alternative to the
judicial system at any stage of a conflict.
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