Types of Dispute Resolution Services
Common Ground offers several different types of dispute resolution services listed below.
Community mediation offers constructive processes for resolving differences and conflicts between individuals, groups, and organizations.
The child-centered mediation model helps you focus on the child’s needs in developing a custody or visitation agreement. It gives you the chance to talk about the issues surrounding your child with his or her other parent.
Raise the Age is specific legislation that raises the age that a child can be criminally charged as an adult. As an alternative to criminal prosecution, we offer restorative justice services, a dialogue-based process where parties convene to specifically address a harm or crime done. The purpose is for the offender to take responsibility for the crime, repair harm and restore relationships.
A meeting of parents and their child with a trained mediator to address many family issues. These issues can include: curfew, peer relationships, discipline, household responsibilities, school problems, single-parent concerns, step-child/step-parent problems and girlfriend/boyfriend difficulties and minor criminal issues. Parents and Children between 9 and 18 years of age are eligible.
Parents who disagree with the delivery of special education programs and services their child is receiving may use the mediation process to address and resolve disputes.
Elder Mediation is a specialized field of mediation that focuses on conflicts which arise in the context of aging. It encourages and promotes direct communication among the disputing parties, and seeks to create an environment where all participants have an opportunity to speak and be heard and work together to resolve issues.
Surrogate’s Court mediation is designed to assist individuals resolve contested probate/Surrogate’s Court matters. A specially trained mediator familiar with Surrogate’s Court’s practices and terminologies, coupled with special training in mediating disputes, will be assigned to your case.
Common Ground is proud to be working with the New York State Agricultural Mediation Program (NYSAMP) to offer Agricultural Mediation to Columbia and Greene Counties. Agricultural Mediation is a confidential and convenient tool that can be used by farmers, agribusinesses, and anyone in the agricultural community as a way to talk about difficult subjects.
What are Circle processes? “Circle processes can create a different path for group members to relate to and support each other in striving after a common mission or vision, especially when tensions arise in the struggle to move society forward or when different perspectives or approaches stall organizations in accomplishing their goals. The embedded characteristics of equitable voices (non-hierarchical form), deep listening, and face-to-face communication in sacred space offer a counterpoint to current fast-paced, debate-centered, and technology-based communication practices. The structure contributes to circles being ideal for deepening relationships, processing difficult experiences, and restoring groups, teams, and communities after a rupture.” (Mediation Beyond Borders) Call or email us for more information!
