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

Communication and Conflict Management workshop
Saturday, July17, 2010
8:45 am – 4:30 pm
Tuition: $65 Regular/pay before June 17, 2010
$75 Regular/pay after June 17, 2010
Sign up with a friend and each receives a 10% discount
$60 If you are affiliated with a non-profit organization
Please register by July 8.
Site: St. Joseph Hospital, Conference Room C2
2700 Dolbeer St., Eureka, CA 95501
Download a Registration Form

Mediator Training (formerly Community Mediation Training)
April 19, 20, 22, 24, 27, 29, May 1
Weekday evenings: 5:15 pm–9:00 pm
Saturday 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
$265 Regular
$175 Regular with 10 hrs. volunteer service to HMS
Senior or student: 10% ;discount
Sign up with a friend: 10% discount
Senior or student sign up with a friend: 20% discount
Location: Lutheran Church of Arcata
151 E. 16th Street, Arcata
Please register by March 18, 2010
Download a Registration Form

Theater Event:

The benefit performance of “Romeo and Juliet” at the North Coast Repertory theater on January 30 2010 hosted by Humboldt Mediation Services was a successful fundraiser thanks to all who purchased tickets. After the performance a reception with delicious food and wine was enjoyed by guests and cast. Special thanks to Wildberries Market in Arcata for a food gift certificate and to John Gibson, former HMS Board chairman, who prepared the refreshments.

Upcoming Events

Yard and Plant Sale

Gardeners, now is the time to begin growing the plants you plan to donate to the annual yard and plant sale which will be held on Saturday, May 29, 2010. We need lots of plants to insure a successful sale.

News

Fall Newsletter

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

Jessica Adkisson:
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).