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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.

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.

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 community with a forum to resolve everyday dispute via mediation, conflict resolution services, and trainings.

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.

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.

Provides family, community, commercial, and special mediation (custody/visitation, family issues, landlord/tenant, consumer/merchant, and special education). Provides arbitration and small claims court mediation. Offers educational services to schools and groups/organizations/businesses on conflict resolution, and peer mediation.

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 one-on-one assistance with a professional case manager to help patients, caregivers or providers resolve healthcare issues. Case Managers are available to assist patients, caregivers and their providers who face debilitating, chronic or life threatening disease.

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.

Provides legal assistance and information, conflict resolution services, advocacy, and educational programming to individuals, and their families.

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