What are Community Mediation Centers?

Community mediation offers constructive processes for resolving differences and conflicts between individuals, groups, and organizations. It offers an alternative to avoidance, destructive confrontation, prolonged litigation or violence. It gives people in conflict an opportunity to take responsibility for the resolution of their dispute and control of the outcome. Community mediation is designed to preserve individual interests while strengthening relationships and building connections between people and groups, and to create processes that make communities work for all of us.

1. A private non-profit or public agency or program thereof, with mediators, staff and governing/advisory board representative of the diversity of the community served.
2. The use of trained community volunteers as providers of mediation services; the practice of mediation is open to all persons.
3. Providing direct access to the public through self-referral and striving to reduce barriers to service including physical, linguistic, cultural, programmatic and economic.
4. Providing service to clients regardless of their ability to pay.
5. Providing service and hiring without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, age, disabilities, national origin, marital status, personal appearance, gender orientation, family responsibilities, matriculation, political affiliation, source of income.
6. Providing a forum for dispute resolution at the earliest stage of conflict.
7. Providing an alternative to the judicial system at any stage of a conflict.
8. Initiating, facilitating and educating for collaborative community relationships to effect positive systemic change.
9. Engaging in public awareness and educational activities about the values and practices of mediation

Carroll County Restorative Justice Center
Tri-County Community Action Program

Chances Mediation Services

Cheshire Mediation

Coos County Family Mediation Tri-County Community Action Program

Family Mediation & Juvenile Services

Londonderry Family Mediation

Milford Area Mediation Program

Nashua Mediation Program

UNH Mediation Program