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HELP YOUTH MEDIATORS PREVENT VIOLENCE!

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Your regular vote during the month of June could bring in $50,000 for Community Mediation Maryland to support Violence Prevention and Conflict Resolution For and By Youth in Maryland. With these funds, CMM will train more teens to serve as mediators in centers throughout Maryland, train more teens in basic conflict management skills, and conduct a comprehensive outreach campaign to encourage youth to use mediation.

 

 
 
 
Here’s what we need you to do. 
1)      Beginning on June 1, at 6 am, go to www.refresheverything.com/mediate or go to www.refresheverything.com and search for “mediation”.
2)      Click on “Join Refresh Everything” (on the lower left hand side). Create an account that will allow you 10 votes per day.
3)      Vote for CMM’s Youth Conflict Resolution Project.
4)      Click on the Facebook and Twitter links so everyone you know can be reminded to vote.
5)      Add a tag at the end of all of your e-mails which says: “I voted for youth violence prevention at www.refresheverything.com/mediate. You can too. Do it today! And again tomorrow, and every day in June!”
 
Special request: If you are a night owl or an early riser, vote in the wee hours of the morning of June 1 so that CMM will be in a top position by business hours on June 1. The top vote getters are listed first on the primary webpage.

 

 

 

Community Mediation Maryland's Performance-Based Evaluation Process is now a REALITY!

 

CMM's Think Tank (from left to right):  Patricia Ryan, Tracee Ford, Erricka Bridgeford, Caroline Harmon, Michele Ennis-Benn, and Lorig Charkoudian take a smile break, while finalizing details of CMM's Performance-Based Evaluation, just days before its launch on January 9, 2010.

 
The performance-based evaluation process is offered in the full knowledge and celebration of the fact that becoming an excellent mediator is a process and a journey, not an event. Mediator certification is one part of a continuum of education offered statewide by Community Mediation Maryland and locally by its member community mediation centers. This education spectrum includes a high-quality, interactive, skills-based basic mediator training, thoughtful apprenticeships, co-mediator feedback after every mediation session, strategy sessions, bi-monthly in-service trainings for mediators, quarterly mediation role-play days, and a statewide mentoring project, among other resources. This important and constant focus on mediator quality is a reflection of the desire to put the needs of mediation participants first, offering only the most ethical, skillful service to our friends and neighbors who use community mediation services in Maryland.