Permanency Mediation Training

BASIC MEDIATION - AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH TRAINING

Transform conflict into peaceful solutions

If you think Mediation – problem solving and relationship building - could be useful in your life, consider being a trained mediator.

Children’s Services of Roxbury–Massachusetts Families for Kids’ Integrative Mediation provides a process that combines the techniques and practical skills of problem solving and relationship-building. This approach focuses on the relational aspects of conflict interactions. Mediators are trained to assist parties to reflect on their issues thus improving trust, communication and mutual understanding. Mediation is a process that facilitates clarity and expanded options.

This training meets the requirements for basic mediation training as set forth in Rule 8 of the Massachusetts Uniform Rules of Dispute Resolution.

This training includes:

• The Mediation Process
• Mediation and Group Facilitation Skills
• Drafting Mediated Agreements

Training Program Design

The training emphasizes interactive participation and encourages “learning by doing.” It includes a mixture of theory and practice that enhances the skills of the trainees and provides a variety of learning techniques that reflect sensitivity to individual learning styles. Role plays with individual feedback and group debriefing are used extensively.

Time and Location:
90 Madison Street, Worcester, MA

Price: To be announced

Dates: To be announced

For a brochure on upcoming mediation trainings, click here.
To register for any of our mediation trainings or seminars, click here.

For more information, please contact, Kristina Ryer at 617-989-9425, or email kryer@csrox.org

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PERMANENCY MEDIATION TRAINING

Children’s Services of Roxbury – Massachusetts Families for Kids’ Permanency Mediation is an advanced mediation model that uses two unique approaches to mediate a permanent plan for a child in foster care. The Family Consultation Team (FCT©) approach is used for child custody cases referred early in the court process. Using concurrent planning and family group conferencing strategies, the FCT© process addresses what needs to occur for the child to return home while simultaneously considering an alternative permanent plan (guardianship or adoption) if reunification is not possible. The FCT© team unites parents, extended family, kin, social workers, attorneys and other service providers in a non-adversarial permanency planning process facilitated by a trained mediator. If an alternative permanent goal is established for the child, the permanency mediator uses a cooperative process to facilitate building a relationship between parents and foster parents as they work together in developing a permanent plan for the child’s future.

This training includes:

• Specific Permanency Mediation skill building in the Family Consultation Team process
• Assessing the Child’s needs for Safety, Support, Continuity of Relationships and Permanence
• Developing partnerships for children’s needs
• Team Meeting facilitation skills
• Clinical and legal issues involved in working with members of the adoption triad in child welfare cases.
• Cooperative Open Adoption Agreement and Guardianship Agreement writing

Training Program Design

The training emphasizes interactive participation and encourages “learning by doing.” Training includes a mixture of theory and practice that enhances the skills of the trainees and provides a variety of learning techniques that reflect sensitivity to individual learning styles. Also included are role plays with individual feedback and group debriefing.

Time and Location
90 Madison Street, Worcester, MA

Price: To be announced

Dates: To be announced

For a brochure on upcoming mediation trainings, click here.
To register for any of our mediation trainings or seminars, click here.

For more information, please contact, Kristina Ryer at 617-989-9425, or email kryer@csrox.org

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Mediation Trainings

Basic Mediation – An Integrative Approach
Time and Location:
90 Madison Street, Worcester, MA
To be announced
Cost: To be announced

Permanency Mediation Training*
*A 30 hour basic mediation training is a prerequisite to register for this training
Time and Location:
90 Madison Street, Worcester, MA
To be announced
Dates: To be announced
Cost:To be announced

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Permanency Mediation Workshop Series

Free of Charge, No deposit required

 

There are no workshops currently scheduled.

 

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About Children’s Services of Roxbury, Mediation Trainers

• Julia A. B. Pearson, JD is an attorney/mediator and the Program Director for Children’s Services of Roxbury/Massachusetts Families for Kids (“CSR/MFFK”). CSR/MFFK is a statewide organization providing permanency mediation services for families involved with the Massachusetts Department of Social Services. These are highly contested, highly emotionally charged, and difficult cases involving the care and custody of children. Ms. Pearson has been a permanency mediator since 1999. In addition Ms. Pearson has provided family law mediation services since 1998. Ms. Pearson is responsible for all training and continuing education programs for permanency mediators in the state of Massachusetts. She obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from Loyola University of Chicago in 1984 and her Juris Doctor degree from Loyola School of Law in Chicago in 1988. Ms. Pearson worked for the Public Guardian’s Office in Cook County, Illinois from 1989 to 1992 representing children in the nation’s largest Juvenile Court. Since returning to Massachusetts in 1992 Ms. Pearson has been representing parents and children in the Juvenile and Probate and Family Courts. She is a court investigator, Guardian Ad Litem for best interest, placement, special education advocacy and medical issues. Ms. Pearson is a mentor for new attorneys and new mediators. Ms. Pearson became the Program Director for CSR/MFFK in January 2005.
  
• Caroline Ely, JD is the Permanency Mediation supervisor for Central Massachusetts at Children’s Services of Roxbury/ Massachusetts Families for Kids. She has been a practicing mediator since 2002 and a permanency mediator since that time. Ms. Ely conducts adoption home studies, child assessments and teaches the state mandated Massachusetts Approach to Partnerships in Parenting training for new adoptive and foster parents. Ms. Ely is currently responsible for supervising 7 mediators in the Permanency Mediation Program. She is responsible for assisting with the development and implementation of training and continuing education seminars for permanency mediators in the State of Massachusetts. Ms. Ely graduated Magna Cum Laude from Western New England Collage, School of Law, she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from the University of California at Santa Barbara and her M.S. degree in Higher Education, Administration and Counseling specialty from Johns Hopkins University. Ms. Ely has represented parents and children in the Juvenile and Probate and Family Courts, has conducted court investigations and was a supervisor with the CASA program.
  
• Susan Harrity Glatki, JD is the Permanency Mediation Supervisor for Western Massachusetts at Children’s Services of Roxbury/ Massachusetts Families for Kids. Ms. Glatki has been mediating since 1995. She has mediated or supervised over 1000 cases involving custody, child welfare, delinquency, divorce, and community issues. She has conducted over 250 hours of basic or advanced mediation trainings. She continues to keep abreast of current mediation practice and theory and has obtained over 200 hours of basic and advanced issue training. She has helped develop and/or implement mediation and training programs in 3 states. She received her law degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 1991 and practiced Juvenile and Family law for ten years. She began her mediation practice in 1995. In 2001 she became the Mediation Director for the California statewide permanency planning mediation program. After her return to Massachusetts, Susan began mediating with MFFK as an independent contractor and became Western Massachusetts Supervisor in August of 2007.
  
• Patricia Lewis Murphy is the Permanency Mediation supervisor for Eastern and Southeastern Regions of Massachusetts at Children’s Services of Roxbury/ Massachusetts Families for Kids. Ms. Murphy holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management and a graduate certificate in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) from the University of Massachusetts. She has specialized ADR training in the transformative style and the integrative method. She has also completed many advanced trainings in Child Welfare, EEO issues, and worked for nineteen years in the environmental field. She has provided mediation services in since 1993. Ms. Murphy has meditated cases in the Small Claims Court; has facilitated three (3) private sector environmental mediations involved in controversial land use disputes with developers, concerned citizens, regulatory agencies, landowners, and environmental advocates; has certification by the United States Postal Service and the federal government’s training course entitled “Advanced Transformative Mediation Skills” in conjunction with the Resolve Employment Disputes Reach Equitable Solution Swiftly (REDRESS) program; and Mediated cooperative adoption plans and reunification plans using CSR/MFFK’s permanency mediation models for children in the Massachusetts foster care system since 1998. Ms. Murphy has been a full time supervisor and lead trainer for CSR/MFFK since 2005 responsible for assisting with the development and implementation of training and continuing education seminars for permanency mediators in the State of Massachusetts.
  
• Geraldine Zipser, JD is the Permanency Mediation supervisor for the Northeast Region of Massachusetts at Children’s Services of Roxbury/Massachusetts Families for Kids. She has been a permanency mediator since 2005 working in the Boston area. Her experiences have helped her be an effective, relationship-building mediator working with diverse families throughout the greater Boston area. Her legal training and experience have given her excellent negotiation, communication, organizational and drafting skills. Ms. Zipser has extensive experience as a trainer in both basic mediation principals and permanency mediation principles. Ms. Zipser is a lead trainer for CSR/MFFK responsible for assisting with the development and implementation of training and continuing education seminars for permanency mediators in the State of Massachusetts.
  

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Who’s At The Table and How are They Impacted by Domestic Violence — A Conference for Mediators

Friday, June 26, 2009
8:30 AM—4:00 PM

The College of the Holy Cross
1 College Street
Worcester, Massachusetts

Keynote Speaker
Robin M. Deutsch, PhD
Psychologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Director of Forensic Services of the Children and the Law Program in the Department of Psychiatry at MGH Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School.

For the brochure click here