8-HOUR CERTIFICATE TRAINING FOR MEDIATORS

Tuesday, January 11, 2022 8:30 am - 12:30 pm

Thursday, January 13, 2022 8:30 am - 12:30 pm

Maine Association of Mediators is offering Domestic Violence Screening for Mediators, a course designed to help meet the requirements to apply to the Court Alternative Dispute Resolution Services (CADRES) roster and assist all mediators with this essential skill.  This course is designed to meet the eight (8) hour CADRES roster training requirement for domestic violence (DV). 

Brenda Mitchell, a longtime CADRES mediator who has dedicated her career to giving voice to victims of abuse through training and advocacy, developed this training and has offered it on a semi-annual basis for many years.  Brenda began her career working in a large institution for people with developmental disabilities.  In that capacity, she experienced, firsthand, the abuse and neglect that is perpetrated upon people who have no voice.  Today, she draws upon her vast training in Non-Violent Communication, years of service in the non-profit arena, and in her mediation practice.  Brenda is pleased to offer this training in collaboration with the colleagues Erin Clough, Karen Groat and Pamela Waite.

Through this course, mediators will learn how to:

• Define DV, its role in communication with Demonstration and practice in methods of screening
• Help the mediator determine if there is a history of DV in the relationship
• Strategies for what and how to mediate if there is a DV history
• Designing a safety plan for before, during and after the mediation session

Registration Information: Participants will receive training materials, and certificate of attendance. 

Location:  Zoom.  Your zoom invite will be emailed to you the day before the event.

Cost:  $175 per person.

             $150 for MAM Members

*Ask about a refresher course fee if space permits

Trainers: Brenda Mitchell, Pamela Waite, Karen Groat & Erin Clough

Audience: Must have completed a 40-hour Mediation Training

Questions:  Contact Erin Clough:  (207)835-1833

                        eclough@cloughmediation.com