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Employment Discrimination Mediation Training – U.S.Equal Employment Opportunity CommissionMonday, June 2 – Friday, June 6, 2008, 8:00 am – 6:00 pm. (approved for 34 CLE hours) Description: Capital University Law School , in cooperation with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), will present an intensive five-day, 40 hour training program for those interested in enhancing opportunities to mediate discrimination disputes. A major aspect of this training will focus on how to overcome barriers to mediating disputes involving race, gender, age, sexual harassment reprisal, religion and related civil rights disputes. Other topics include writing settlement agreements, EEOC policies and procedures, cultural competency, etc. Participants in this highly interactive training will conduct role plays, be coached and evaluated to assure proficiency in the required skills. Prerequisites: This course is geared toward highly experienced (at least 5 years) mediators who are pursuing mediation as a professional field of practice and wish to expand their services to mediating employment discrimination disputes. In applying, you are required to submit the registration, which includes an application section clearly outlining your experience as a mediator, including your years of experience in the field of employment discrimination, and your knowledge of discrimination laws and regulations. This will enable the EEOC and faculty reviewers to have a better understanding of each participant’s background, experience, and EEO knowledge prior to the training. Advancement Opportunities:
The use of mediation to resolve workplace disputes, especially discrimination disputes, has grown tremendously during the past decade. More corporations have developed mediation programs to resolve employment disputes. State and federal civil rights agencies, as well as courts, have developed mediation programs to resolve employment litigation. Although successful completion of this course does not guarantee a contract with the EEOC to mediate complaints filed with their agency, this will enhance your qualifications to mediate such disputes and should open new opportunities to work with a growing number of public and private organizations that use mediation to resolve employment disputes. Class Size : 25 Cost: $375 Continuing Education Credit: This training is full. Basic MediationMonday, June 2 – Tuesday, June 3, 2008, 8:00 am. – 5:30 pm (approved for 15.75 CLE hours) Trainer: Darlene Chavers, Esq. (Columbus, OH) Description: The Basic Mediation training is an interactive, two-day, 16 hour course introducing participants to the practice of mediation and the essential skills needed to be a successful mediator. It will instruct participants in the seven-step facilitative conflict resolution model. The course will include topics such as: the dynamics of conflict, active listening techniques; negotiation and interest based problem solving; being responsive to the parties; supporting participants in conversation as they come to understand their own goals and the perspective of the other party; building the process; and ethical issues and model standards of conduct for mediators. The course will include lectures, group discussions, media clips and role plays. Mediation is an organized negotiation, in which a neutral third party helps those trying to resolve issues between them to find equally agreeable solutions. It is a structured process in which the mediator guides the disputants through a discussion of their mutual problems and concerns, organizes the parties’ presentations of alternatives, and aids them in arriving at a decision about the dispute. Unlike adjudication or arbitration, where a third party has authority to determine a “winner” or “loser,” in mediation the mediator controls the process, but the parties themselves are empowered to control the outcome. Mediation is used in the court system, in community centers, in schools, or in any setting where the disputants choose to use a third party to help them settle their differences. Most often, there is better compliance with the agreement when it is self-determined, and the agreement is more likely to safeguard the essential interests of all the disputants (a “win-win” result). Also, the lessons learned during mediation may often benefit the parties in managing disputes more productively in the future. Mediation is being used to manage conflict among families and world powers alike. Prerequisites : No prior mediation experience is required. The training is open to anyone interested in developing skills in conflict management, and is designed to be interdisciplinary and to be useful to those with various experience levels and backgrounds. Advancement Opportunities: This training is a prerequisite for most advanced mediation training programs. It will also prepare participants to begin apprenticeships in some mediation programs. A growing number of industries use mediation, as peacemaking skills become more valuable in managing human relations of all kind. Class size: 30 Cost: $175 Continuing Education Credit: This training is full. Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals and CommunitiesTuesday, June 3 – Wednesday, June 4, 2008, 8:00 am – 3:00 pm (11 hours) Trainers: Phil DeVol, Consultant, Aha!Process, Inc.; Kathy McPherson, Consultant, Aha!Process, Inc. Highland, TX Description: The lives of people in poverty are often misunderstood by the very professionals assigned to help them. This creates conflict and results in ineffective interventions. Bridges Out of Poverty (Bridges) is a unique and powerful tool designed specifically to help social, health, and legal service professionals better serve people from diverse socio-economic backgrounds. Bridges is designed to give helping professionals a deeper understanding of the challenges and strengths of those in poverty. In addition to gaining a skills set for interpersonal practice, participants will explore how agency policies and procedures can be improved to accommodate indigent clients, to allow community collaboration and to successfully help clients transition out of poverty. This particular Bridges training has been customized for mediators and mediation stakeholders such as children’s services workers, guardians ad litem, attorneys, prosecutors, family intervention specialists, policy makers and school personnel. The training contains case studies, detailed analysis, helpful charts and exercises, and specific solutions you can implement to better serve people of diverse socio-economic backgrounds. Bridges Out of Poverty and the accompanying Workbook are used as training materials. Prerequisites: Participants should be those currently engaged in, or planning to work with, policy development or intervention processes designed to improve services to people in poverty. Advancement Opportunities: S uccessful completion of this course will enhance your understanding and ability to better serve people from diverse socio-economic backgrounds. These are skills used in such contexts as community mediation programs, truancy prevention, family conflicts, and law enforcement. It will open the door to new opportunities for collaboration with a growing number of poverty reduction stakeholders. Class size: 40-50 Cost: $175 Continuing Education Credit: Community Engagement and Facilitation Skill BuildingWednesday, June 4, 2008, 8:00 am – 4:30 pm (approved for 6 CLE hours)
Trainer: Don Greenstein, Senior Mediator / Facilitator; The Keystone Center (Natick, MA), Ed Moreno, Associate Facilitator, The Keystone Center (Santa Fe, NM) Description: The Keystone Center will conduct this 6-hour training on convening and facilitating “hot topic” public meetings. Based on the Keystone Center’s model and experience over the past 5 years with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s community initiatives on pandemic health issues, this training willoffer skill building on facilitation of community engagement processes that can encompass numerous issues from public health to community planning, to resolution of protracted community issues. The goal is to offer participants an interactive hands-on training opportunity that will expose them to facilitation and community involvement work. This training program will include didactic skill building exercises and lectures on pre-meeting convening, getting the right parties into the process, facilitation skills building, meeting agenda planning, some useful exercises/games to involve the participants and gather information, discussion on the use of information technology and new online systems, as well as tips and lecture on how to deal with difficult situations, crowd control and working with an angry public. For further information, contact Don Greenstein at Dgreenstein@keystone.org or see the CDC and other public community engagement reports at www.keystone.org. Prerequisites: Trainees should be willing to participate in an interactive workshop; come with ideas and some knowledge about community engagement and public involvement; and be willing to take risks and learn more about themselves. Advancement Opportunities: Successful completion of this training will lead to many new opportunities in the world of facilitation, a valuable tool for all skilled mediators, attorneys, managers, and anyone who has the task of bringing a group of people together to discuss a topic that has more than one viewpoint. Class size: 24 Cost: $150 Continuing Education Credit: Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA – formerly NASD) Dispute Resolution Basic Arbitrator TrainingWednesday, June 4, 2008, 1:00- 5:00 pm. (4 hours) CANCELLED Truancy MediationThursday, June 5 – Friday, June 6, 2008, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm (approved for 9.5 CLE hours) Trainers: Tammy Martin Kosier, Mediation Coordinator, Ashtabula County Court of Common Pleas ( Jefferson, OH), Randy L. Fisher, Mediator, Therapist, Consultant (Columbus, OH), Edward M. Krauss, Director, Community and Court Programs, Ohio Commission on Dispute Resolution & Conflict Management (Columbus, OH) Assistant Trainer: Suzanne Barker, Senior Case Coordinator, Community Mediation Services of Central Ohio (Columbus, OH) Guest Presenter: Christy Cumberlander Walker, Coordinator, Access Visitation and Juvenile Domestic Violence Mediation Programs, Franklin County Court of Common Pleas (Columbus, OH) Description: Capital University Law School, in cooperation with the Supreme Court of Ohio, Dispute Resolution Section; and the Ohio Commission on Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management, will conduct this two-day training on basic truancy mediation using Ohio’s Truancy Prevention Through Mediation Program model. This is a proven, effective early-intervention model that helps families resolve attendance concerns and reduces court dockets by heading off problems before they are serious enough to require court action. This training will show how to use facilitated problem-solving to address student truancy. The goal is to, in a non-punitive, non-disciplinary way, identify the family problems that are often causing the poor attendance, and to then help the family reach a voluntary solution. Those solutions often involve reaching out to a government agency, social service provider, or non-profit organization. For further information please see http://disputeresolution.ohio.gov/courtcommunity.htm Prerequisites: Trainees should be connected to, or planning to become involved with a school district or court-based program. Advancement Opportunities: Truancy is an area of growing community concern. Successful completion of this course will prepare you to conduct truancy mediation and / or assist in developing effective truancy reduction programs. Class size: 30 Cost: $175 Continuing Education Credit: This training is full. Other ADR Events:Co-mediation Opportunities in Domestic / Juvenile Court For Domestic and Juvenile court mediators, the opportunity to get hands-on experience mediating live cases is being offered in Franklin County through the Domestic Court (Access Visitation Program) and the Juvenile Branch (Juvenile Victim Offender Program – JVOMP). For more information, contact Christy Cumberlander Walker, Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, Domestic Relations and Juvenile Branch at christy_walker@fccourts.org, or (614)462-6147; or Marya Kolman, Mediation Services Director at marya_kolman@fccourts.org, or (614)462-6640. Prerequisites: Participants must have taken Basic Mediation. For Access Visitation co-mediation, must have also taken the 40 hour Domestic Mediation training and the 16 hour Domestic Abuse training, as required by the Supreme Court of Ohio. Advancement Opportunities: Participants will gain valuable experience and pursuant to the requirements of local mediation programs, may have the court cases credited toward eligibility for mediation assignments. Participants should check with their local courts or mediation organizations to determine how successful participation in these sessions will enhance their specific program qualifications. Beta Test of the Reservist Reintegration and Transitions Program (RRTP) The National Association for Community Mediation (NAFCM) will hold a Reservist Reintegration and Transitions Program (RRTP), 5-day training during the ADR Institute. This is a national support program providing pre- and post-deployment conflict resolution services to Reserves and National Guard families affected by deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan. Ohio is one of four states (along with Vermont, Virginia and Illinois) where NAFCM is partnering with family assistance centers, veterans services, community mediation centers, health professionals, and others. For more information, contact Irvin Foster at The National Association for Community Mediation (NAFCM), Irvin.foster@nafcm.org or (202)545-8866.
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