Established in 1983, Humboldt Mediation Services is a community based, non-governmental, nonprofit organization of trained volunteer Community Mediators. We provide conflict resolution services for disputes of all kinds, including divorce and separation, child custody, family conflict, workplace or business conflict, property conflict, and tenant-landlord conflict. Our Community Board style of mediation encourages communication, collaborative resolution, and win-win solutions as an alternative to costly court cases and ongoing conflicts.
We also offer annual Community Mediator Training, Communication and Conflict Management workshops, meeting and focus group facilitation, and custom workshops to the community. Our goal is to work locally toward global peace by providing community members and organizations with community-based peacemaking tools.
Evita
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Argentina's controversial First Lady, Eva Peron, is the subject of this dynamic musical masterpiece. Driven by ambition and blessed with charisma, Eva escaped her dirt-poor existence for the bright lights of Buenos Aires. Known as a saint to the working-class, reviled by the aristocracy, and mistrusted by the military, Eva was destined to leave a fascinating and unique political legacy. Told through a compelling score that fuses haunting chorales with exuberant Latin, pop and jazz influences, Evita creates an arresting theatrical portrait as complex as the woman herself.
Reception: 7:00 pm, Blacksmith Shop Gallery
445 Main Street, Ferndale
Performance: 8:00 pm, Ferndale Repertory Theatre
447 Main Street, Ferndale
Job Opportunities
HMS is currently seeking an Office Intern. This unpaid position is an excellent opportunity to gain entry-level experience in the administration of a nonprofit alternative dispute resolution service. Click here to view the job description. Applicants may send a cover letter, resume, and at least two references to info@humboldtmediationservices.org.
Mediation Services
HMS practices the Community Boards model of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). Community Board mediation is a forum for conflict resolution with a panel of three trained, neutral mediators to guide you through the process. HMS trains and certifies all volunteer mediators and new mediators are mentored until they gain enough experience to lead a panel on their own.
Prior to the mediation session(s), two mediators meet privately with each disputant to identify that person's issues and interests in a process called Case Development. The goal is for each person involved to communicate their feelings, wants, and needs so they can write an agreement together solving the conflict. This can take one session or many sessions; the choice is up to the participants. You own the process! Mediators are neutral facilitators, clarifiers, ground-rule enforcers, and consultants in the construction of agreements. Mediators never impose solutions on you, makes decisions on your behalf, or make recommendations to courts or other agencies.
Mediation and Facilitation FeesMediation sessions are billed per session, regardless of how long each session takes. Fees are determined on a sliding scale based on income or what you can reasonably afford. If you are unable to pay the fees due to financial hardship, call our Case Manager to discuss your situation. No one is turned away from HMS because of inability to pay mediation fees. |
We mediate these types of disputes:
- Divorces and Separations, including Child Custody / Support / Visitation Agreements
- Landlord / Tenant
- Housemates / Roommates
- Conflict with Neighbor(s)
- Parent / Child
- Elder Care
- Property Issues
- Teacher or School Administrator / Pupil or Parent
- Seller / Buyer
- Business Partners, Business / Business, Business / Customer
- Workplace Conflicts (Employees, Supervisors)
Above: Three trained volunteers (facing camera) mediate
a dispute between two individuals.
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).