Allegany Conflict Resolution Center
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[edit] General Information
- Official name: Allegany Conflict Resolution Center
- Country: USA
- City: Cumberland
- Type of organization: non-profit organization
- Date of creation: -
- Interests: Mediation - Training
- Fields of expertise: Community, Business, Family, Workplace (…) Disputes
[edit] Description
Mediation helps people reach agreements, rebuild relationships, and find permanent solutions to their disputes. Mediation is a process that lets people speak for themselves and make their own decisions.
Community mediation provides a non-profit framework for assuring access to mediation services at the community level with control and responsibility for dispute resolution maintained in the community. Community mediation strives to:
- 1. Train community members who reflect the community's diversity with regard to age, race, gender, ethnicity, income and education to serve as volunteer mediators;
- 2. Provide mediation services at no cost or on a sliding scale;
- 3. Hold mediations in neighborhoods where disputes occur;
- 4. Schedule mediations at a time and place convenient to the participants;
- 5. Encourage early use of mediation to prevent violence or to reduce the need for court intervention, as well as provide mediation at any stage in a dispute;
- 6. Mediate community-based disputes that come from referral sources including self-referrals, police, courts, community organizations, civic groups, religious institutions, government agencies and others;
- 7. Educate community members about conflict resolution and mediation;
- 8. Maintain high quality mediators by providing intensive, skills-based training, apprenticeships, continuing education and ongoing evaluation of volunteer mediators;
- 9. Work with the community in governing community mediation programs in a manner that is based on collaborative problem solving among staff, volunteers and community members;
- 10. Provide mediation, education, and potentially other conflict resolution processes to community members who reflect the community's diversity with regard to age, race, gender, ethnicity, income, education, and geographic location.
[edit] Disputes Mediated
Allegany Conflict Resolution Center mediates just about any type of dispute between two or people. Some examples of commonly mediated situations involve:
- Neighbors or Community Groups
- Family Disputes: Parent/Teen, Husband/Wife, Siblings, In-Laws
- Roomates or Friends
- Landlord/Tenant
- Employer/Employee or Co-workers
- Business/Customer
[edit] Contact
13 Canal Street, Suite 304, Cumberland, Maryland 21502 - USA
Tel.: 334.269.0409
Email: conflictresolutioncenter@allconet.org