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Southern California Family MediationSouthern California Family MediationSouthern California Family MediationSouthern California Family Mediation
Mission: Using mediation, we reduce family conflict and build the foundation for respectful communication & problem solving.
About Us
We serve the most at risk parents and children at all 27 child dependency courtrooms throughout Los Angeles County and the L.A. County Adoption Court.
2018: Mediators donated more than 1,700 hours valued at over $340,000.
About Us
Over 900 mediations
9 out of 10 families reached agreements
Brighter, more peaceful futures for 2,000 kids
= Made Possible Thanks To Grants From =
The Pritzker Family Foundation
Pritzker Foster Care Initiative
Our partners include
What We Do
Help families create their own parenting agreements
Our Mediations assist with parenting plans, making tough decisions, rebuilding trust, and helping co-parents communicate peacefully & with respect. The families decide what details are important to them and what their agreement will be.
Keep families & kids out of the juvenile justice system
Mediation helps reduce recidivism, reunify families, and teaches skills to handle difficult and emotional situations.
Get results
Provide education
Why this program is so critical
- 30,000 children who are victims of abuse and neglect are entrusted to the care of the Los Angeles County Juvenile Justice System.
- 73% of foster youth spend two or more years in the system.
- Without mediation as families leave the juvenile justice system, Exit Orders offer little or no guidance or details about how parents will work together to raise their children.
- Only through mediation to parents hear: "Congratulations! Here is your copy of your agreement that you created.
- The Children's Court and Foster Care systems are being pushed beyond capacity by a constant flow of families returning to conflict.
- Every time a child is uprooted from his or her support systems (family, friends, school) their chance of graduating high school is reduced, and their likelihood of becoming incarcerated or homeless is increased.
Solving Problems
Rebuilding Trust
Co-parents learn to create their own Parenting Plan Agreements
Healing the heart of social conflict begins when co-parents learn better - more successful and less harmful - ways to communicate, negotiate, and agree for their children.
For many co-parents, creating their own agreement together can be one of the most transformational experiences of their lives.
Who We Are
Southern California Family Mediation is helping to save a generation, by providing stability for families.
We are a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation.
We recruit professional mediators and train them to help co-parents create their own visitation plans as they exit the L.A. County Child Dependency Court system.
We are not funded by the Court, and rely on private donations.
Our Amazing Volunteer Mediators
- Our team of 30 specially-trained volunteer mediators, with decades of experience and stacks of advanced degrees, serve all 25 courtrooms at both L.A. County Children’s Courthouses.
- 2 Co-mediators spend all day helping co-parents develop the communication and negotiation skills they need to create their own comprehensive Custody & Visitation Agreement, the same skills they need to co-parent peacefully for their children.
- In 2017, our volunteer mediators donated over 1,700 hours, valued at more than $340,000.