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Where can mediation help?
Family mediation is known chiefly for helping through divorce or family law-related issues.
Did you know mediation can help with various family, youth, or child-related concerns?
Here's where our family mediators spend their time currently.
Youth
Mediators are helpful for youth-related conflict that occurs in schools, families, and friend groups. Most of our mediators are trained in restorative circles. Here are a few ways mediators can impact these environments:
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Restoring school culture to address youth/staff or youth/youth conflict healthily
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Creating safe, judgment-free zones for youth to work together around issues that have caused conflict.
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Youth accountability and discipline issues. Repairing relationships.
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Family conflict tied to youth-related behaviors.
Social Services
We can address the needs of child welfare, safety, and family preservation by engaging families and social workers in a value-based discussion. Here are a few ways our mediators help county offices:
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Safe care planning of prenatal cases of drug-positive moms
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Parent addiction/mental health
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Out-of-home placement and family/kinship conflict
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Truancy and other youth/parent-related conflict
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Divorce & More
We can address divorce matters without having you step foot in the court setting:
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Use a mediator to work through the entire process outside the court!
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We encourage using the "self-help desk" to reduce as much cost as possible.
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Any post-decree issue, custody, or parenting time matter can benefit from the mediation process and be submitted to the court for an order.
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Mental Health
Mental health can create conflict between parents, siblings, and parent/child relationships. Use mediation to:
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Create plans everyone can live with.
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Work through relationship damage and foster greater understanding.
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Raise issues or the "elephant in the room."
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Prioritize, discuss, and foster buy-in from various angles.
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Mediation does not replace therapy - having a neutral facilitator guide a specific area of conflict can provide clarity and relief of those impacted.
Family Needs
We know blended families, single-parent families, nuclear families, and extended families have conflict needs too!
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Get support to navigate a clash of parenting opinions.
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Adult siblings can struggle with decisions on elderly parents' care needs and benefit from a mediator's support.
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Blending a family has many dynamics to consider - use a mediator to help work through challenges.