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Helps resolve and prevent racial and ethnic violence and disorder, and to diffuse potentially explosive situations in schools and communities through mediation and conflict resolution. This regional office services New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico and Virginia.

Provides brief crisis intervention, short-term counseling, mediation, advocacy and/or referral for youth who are runaways or homeless or at risk of becoming runaways due to family conflicts. Referral to emergency shelter or group homes.

School mediation programs encourage communication, neutrality, empowerment, and confidentiality. Students negotiate their differences with trained peer mediators. Programs are implemented in schools from elementary through college levels.

Addresses the family issues as well as Family Court petitions involving Custody, Visitation, and Support disputes.

Offers various modes of counseling for individuals, couples families, youth, etc on various life situations.

Business disputes involving issues such as bad checks, breach of contract, consumer/merchant partnership, workplace and property.

Provides mediation and arbitration services for community, parent/child, divorce, custody and visitation, and juvenile issues. A neutral third person, the mediator, facilitates discussions between the parties. The mediator helps participants develop or refine their communication skills, and teaches school children techniques for resolving disagreements. Mediators are trained conflict resolution volunteers.

Commercial Mediation services focus on Bad Checks, Business-to-Business issues, Contracts, Customer Relations, Partnerships, Vendor Relationships, Workplace Conflict including Interpersonal, Harassment, and Discrimination Disputes, Training and Consultation Services, Conflict Resolution and Effective Communication Training, Dispute Resolution System Design.

Provides neutral alternative dispute resolution programs to help people solve conflicts, no matter the situation or setting. The Center does not provide direct legal representation or advocacy services but can provide referrals to the agencies providing these services. Mediation can:

• Help parties with civil and family legal issues who are looking for an alternative to court
• Help couples looking to get divorced and or separated
• Help landlords and tenants work out non-emergency issues
• Help parents and schools agree on special education matters
• Help employees and employers resolve conflict
• Help neighbors restore harmony in the community
• Help families handle issues with teens, siblings, and aging adults
• Help parents work out custody and visitation arrangements

Services are offered virtually, over the phone, and in person. In addition to mediation programs, the Center collaborates with local civil legal services providers to offer holistic legal services for victims of crime in Erie, Niagara, and Genesee Counties. Center staff will work with victims to identify legal issues and to discuss pathways to achieving justice. The Center also offers Education and Training workshops that provide skills-based trainings, consultation, and coaching services.

Provides the most comprehensive site for up-to-the-minute information about all forms of dispute prevention and resolution including mediation, arbitration, fact-finding, partnering, dispute review boards, and other related alternative dispute resolution processes.

Provides free or low cost counseling for parents and teens. Refers to other community resources when appropriate. Volunteer opportunities available. Office is based in Woodstock and therapy sessions are held at the office. Transportation is not provided.

Emergency crisis shelter and safe haven for runaway or homeless youth 10-20. Length of stay is dependent on age.

Provides mediation and arbitration services for community, parent/child, divorce, custody and visitation, and juvenile issues. Mediators are trained volunteers.

Provides mediation and arbitration services for community, parent/child, divorce, custody and visitation, and juvenile issues. A neutral third person, the mediator, facilitates discussions between the parties. The mediator helps participants develop or refine their communication skills, and teaches school children techniques for resolving disagreements. Mediators are trained conflict resolution volunteers.

Offers alternative dispute resolution services to individuals and groups for resolution of conflict. Services include mediation, conciliation and Lemon Law arbitration.

Mediation between parents/guardians of children in special education classes and local school districts.

Addresses the physical, legal, financial and emotional challenges for aging individuals. Assists seniors in resolving conflicts that include but are not limited to estate planning, medical care, loss of independence, and family relationships. Also assists in senior housing/tenant issues. There is no fee.

Offers various modes of counseling for individuals, couples families, youth, etc on various life situations.

An alternative to the traditional investigative or litigation process. Mediation is an informal process in which a neutral third party assists the opposing parties to reach a voluntary, negotiated resolution of a charge of discrimination.

Emergency crisis shelter and safe haven for runaway or homeless youth 10-20. Length of stay is dependent on age.

A national organization that serves as a liaison between the patient and their insurer, employer and/or creditors to resolve insurance, job discrimination and/or debt crisis matters relative to their diagnosis. Seeks to safeguard patients through mediation assuring access to care, maintenance of employment and preservation of financial stability. Provides legal consultation and referral services for patients facing denial of insurance coverage, employment discrimination and need for negotiating support with public assistance programs. In situations of health crisis, care workers offer free help in resolving issues. Website offers online request-for-help capability and has a directory of prescription drug patient assistance programs that offer medicines free of charge to physicians whose patients might not otherwise have access to necessary medicine.

Offers a program which provides an alternative approach to resolving problems between parents and their children.

Promotes the professional standards of divorce mediation. Maintains directory of mediators, and committees on ethics and standards of practice to investigate clients complaints.

Offers various modes of counseling for individuals, couples families, youth, etc on various life situations.

Free independent and confidential tax assistance to taxpayers unable to resolve their tax problems through normal channels of the IRS. Also assists taxpayers experiencing a hardship.