How Can HMS Help You?

Are you faced with conflict? Involved in a dispute?

Call or e-mail our Case Manager.
There’s no cost or obligation for this initial consultation.

For information about our services or board membership and volunteer opportunities fill out our contact form.

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Events

Basic Communications and Conflict Management Workshop
Saturday, June 6, 2009
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Tuition: $75 individual, $60 non-profit
For registration, contact Diane Emerson, 445-2505
Site: St. Joseph Hospital
Conference room C2
2700 Dolbeer St., Eureka
Enrollment closes May 28, 2009

Mediator Training (formerly Community Mediation Training)
October 5,7,10,12,14 and 17, 2009
(Monday/Wednesday evening 5:15 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Saturday 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.)
Regular tuition: $265 individual
Reduced tuition: $175 for enrollees who commit to 10 hours of of volunteer work with HMS in 2009-2010
For registration, contact Diane Emerson, 445-25025
Location: TBA
Enrollment closes September 24, 2009

May Newsletter

Job Announcement

Humboldt Mediation Services, a Eureka-based non-profit providing community mediation services and training in alternative dispute resolution, seeks a CASE MANAGER to coordinate services for people in conflict. Part time, 12-15 hours per week. Starting pay: $13.00 / hour. If you have excellent phone and listening skills, are highly organized, and enjoy working with volunteers, call us at (707) 445-2505

Applications must be received by Monday, June 22. Successful candidate will start Monday, July 13.

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Mediation in Progress

Three trained volunteers (facing camera) mediate a dispute between two individuals.

Office Hours

Monday, Wednesday, Thursday
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

HMS Staff

Sabra Steinberg:
Case Manager
Diane Emerson :
Office Administrator

Mediation

HMS practices a Community Board model of alternative dispute resolution (ADR). In the mediation, HMS-trained volunteer mediators work in teams of three. Prior to the mediation, two mediators meet privately with each disputant to identify that person's issues and interests.

We mediate these types of disputes:

  • Landlord / Tenant
  • Conflict with Neighbor(s)
  • Parent / Teen
  • Elder Care
  • Divorce Issues, incl. Child Custody / Support / Visitation
  • Property Issues
  • Teacher or School Administrator / Pupil or Parent
  • Seller / Buyer
  • Business Partners, Business / Business
  • Workplace Conflicts (Employees, Supervisors)

HMS Goals

  • Establish efficient, simple, confidential forums for resolution of conflict between people in the Humboldt community.
  • Encourage people to deal with problems that they have unhappily tolerated.
  • Allow those in conflict to take responsibility for resolving their disputes before they escalate to irreconcilable situations.
  • Build mutually beneficial and productive relationships with individuals and organizations that promote just and collaborative approaches to shared challenges and concerns.
  • Divert from the courts those cases that are more appropriately handled outside the court system.
  • Train members of the Humboldt Community to serve as mediators.
  • Provide volunteers with opportunities to contribute to the community and the effectiveness of the organization, and to strengthen individual growth in alternative dispute resolution (ADR).