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    • Become a Co-Mediator
    • Join Our Tiger Team
  • PARENT RESOURCES

Real Mediation. Real Families. Real Impact.

This Is What You Trained For

Most mediators spend their careers attempting to resolve disputes over money and property.   At Southern California Family Mediation, co-mediators can deliver more meaningful solutions for young parents & children, and achieve more personal & professional growth in one day than most mediators will experience throughout their career. 


Yet somehow, we have the highest family success rates.  If you've been waiting for the work that your passion & training have been pointing you toward - This is it. 

Mediate where it matters most

We're looking for skilled mediators ready to commit - weekly the first year, with flexibility in year two.  To be honest, we're hoping you'll never want to leave.  


We will invest in you.  We ask that you invest in the families we serve, not just while it's convenient, but for the long haul.  The children and parents who sit across from you will remember you.  Make sure it's for the right reasons. 

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Roles

Supervising Mediator

A few of our best and most experienced co-mediators are promoted to the pinnacle of court-connected mediation exceptionalism, SCFM Dependency Court Supervising Mediator.  Supervising Mediators are available to answer mediators' questions before and during mediations and to help review Mediated Agreements with the co-mediation teams.

SCFM Dependency Court Mediator

Our exceptional team of volunteer co-mediators appreciate the importance of showing up consistently for families when they need us most.  SCFM Mediators have a combination of education and experience that often includes six years of college and/or extensive family mediation-related experience.  They complete our California Judicial Counsel-approved AFADCM-40 (Advanced Family And Dependency Court Mediation-40) before and during their first year of observations and co-mediations.

SCFM Paraprofessional Dependency Court Mediator

Our exceptional team of volunteer co-mediators appreciate the importance of showing up consistently for families when they need us most.  SCFM Paraprofessional Mediators have less combined education and experience when they first join the SCFM team.  They complete our California Judicial Counsel-approved AFADCM-40 (Advanced Family And Dependency Court Mediation-40) before and during their first year of observations and co-mediations.

USC Student Mediators

Since 2016, SCFM has had a partnership with the USC School of Law, Family Mediation Clinic.  Students take a class at USC and as part of that class, they get the opportunity to co-mediate with our team.

Leadership Tiger Team Professionals

Our volunteer Leadership Tiger Team Professionals are second to none, keeping everything working behind the scenes, helping families, parents, and co-mediation teams make the magic happen.

Opportunities like this are rare.

How it works

  • As a team, we serve co-parenting families at all LACSC (Los Angeles County Superior Court), dependency courts - one of the most challenging and rewarding environments, where families and kids need us most.  
  •  No legal background is required. 
  • We work in teams using the co-mediation model with a Supervising Mediator to help navigate the uniqueness of each case. 
  • We are agreement-writing mediators. 
  • We are a transformation-based program that employs facilitative and evaluative styles when needed to best serve the families & children when they need us most.   
  • The goal is to help young families negotiate their own written, custom-detailed Parenting Plan or Visitation Plan - Mediated Agreement - to help them navigate challenges like their Visitation and Holiday schedules, Exchange Plans, Communication Plans, and issues important to them.

Where

  • Most of us co-mediate from home, via online.
  • We also offer in-person co-mediation opportunities at the Edmund D. Edelman Children's Courthouse in Monterey Park and the Alfred J. McCourtney Juvenile Justice Center in the Antelope Valley.

How

  • Thanks to our 11-year relationship with the Court, parents are ordered to mediation (but they can't be ordered to agree).
  • There are four attorneys on each case, and case files provide guidance and the orders of the Court. 

WHAT IT TAKES TO JOIN THIS EXCEPTIONAL PANEL OF MEDIATORS

Two-Year Commitment (but we hope you'll always want to stay)

One day per week the first year; and flexibility the second year.

For example, every Tuesday.

Skills

  • Consistent reliability 
  • Growth mindset
  • Great mediators are negotiators of acumen.  
  • Belief (tenacity), patience, curiosity and listening skills are musts for great mediators.
  • You do not need a legal background.
  • 40-Hour basic mediation certificate preferred.

Security Clearance

 A (currently, free) LAC Superior Court Security Clearance is required, and there are no substitutes, no exceptions. 

Let the Journey Begin

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Please, mail your Peace Investment Donation check to:

"SoCal Family Mediation"

PO Box 7576 Burbank, CA 91510


GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/effacb703 


Southern California Family Mediation is a 501(c)3


Administrative Support

Tiger Team Supervisor, Nellie "Naomi" Tillman  

818-575-6900 (no text)   |   Nelliet@DependencyMediation.org


Education & Join-us

Info@DependencyMediation.org


Program Questions & Mediation Support

Mediator L Randy Drew

818-257-0007   |   Drew@DependencyMediation.org

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