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What We Do
Exclusively Serve The Co-Parenting Families and Children's Courts of Los Angeles County
We are the only mediation program reuniting co-parenting families at all of the dependency courtrooms at both courthouses of the Los Angeles County Superior Dependency Court.
Provide Our Own Training
Because no other court-connected program meets our standards of success, we must design and teach our own Child Dependency Mediation training. We offer our training once a year, and it is taught by our Leadership Team, and experts such as L. A. County Superior Court Commissioner Marilyn Mordetzky and master mediators Kenneth Cloke & Lee Jay Berman.
USC Partnership
We are in our third year of our partnership with the USC Gould School of Law. In the Fall, LLM and Master's in Dispute Resolution students, who have completed the prerequisite co-mediate with our elite team of Volunteer Mediators. In the Spring, second and third year law school students, who have completed the prerequisite co-mediate with our elite team of Volunteer Mediators.
Provide a Teaching and Learning Environment
We co-mdeiate, meaning there are two or more mediators leading each mediation. Mediators have a number of private meetings with a Supervising Mediator throughout the course of each mediation. We actively seek constructive feedback from each other, parents, attorneys, judges, and other mediation professionals. We also conduct a Lessons Learned debriefing at the conclusion of every mediation.
Provide Hope & Actionable Solutions
Every conflict can be thought of as a self-contained workshop, because there are the "conflict partners", the presenting issues, the underlying issues, and the solution, which the conflict has wrapped itself around.
This workshop mentality empowers co-parents as they come together to learn about their conflict and learn to how negotiate more successfully & less harmfully. Before they even realize it, 96% of co-parents have created their own agreements.
A lot of little agreements add up to one big agreement!! Maybe even more importantly, parents come away with new perspectives, tools and techniques for dealing with their co-parenting challenges, and they may have agreed for the first time... ever... on anything.
It is commonplace for coparents who have not spoken in months or even years to be seen having lunch together, while attorneys stand mouths agape. This is the reality. We are the good news!