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NEWS UPDATE
CCR Updates
You're invited to CCR's Annual Event!
Tickets are on sale!
Help CCR welcome spring with Mayfest for Mediation at Kaiser Tiger on May 2! Join us in celebrating 45 years of providing free mediation and conflict resolution services with premium open bar service, delicious food, fun games and the opportunity to connect with the CCR community.
The event will feature a covered, heated outdoor space.
Dress code: Casual to Dazzle
To request accommodations, please contact Katey Baker-Smith at 312-922-6464 ext. 264 or [email protected]
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The Power of Tenant-Landlord Mediation
Watch this video to hear about how CCR can help people in the city of Chicago and beyond with tenant-landlord issues (jump ahead to 1:10 to hear about CCR)!
Chicago is also highlighted as a success story in this New York Times guest essay about the importance of eviction diversion programs.
ABOUT CCR
Who We Are
CCR provides free mediation services to people in conflict and offers trainings in mediation skills as well as customizable conflict management workshops.
CCR prides itself on continuously developing and expanding opportunities to build community and strengthen the justice system through the resolution of everyday conflicts.
Flexible, free services, provided by committed staff and volunteers continue to improve the lives of thousands of people each year who are able to participate in mediation as a way to resolve their dispute.
Volunteering at CCR
Volunteer mediators at the Center for Conflict Resolution (CCR) are at the core of our mission and are at the forefront of practice in the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) field. At CCR, volunteers have a unique opportunity to mediate a wide range of high conflict, high emotion disputes with diverse parties. There are several ways to volunteer at the Center for Conflict Resolution. Learn how to today!
OUR CLIENTS
CCR CLIENT STORY
Trent broke up with Jess after hearing rumors that she cheated on him. Jess and her friends confronted Trent, and he shoved Jess. A fight broke out, resulting in Trent’s arrest.
They were referred to mediation, where Trent revealed that he was trying to avoid being recruited into a gang at school. However, since it was rumored that Jess had been cheating with a member of a rival gang, Trent’s recruiters threatened to address the situation if he didn’t handle it himself.
None of this had been communicated to Jess before, who insisted that she hadn’t cheated on him. The mediator repeated the parties’ needs and emotions back to them: both of them felt hurt by the other, and both of them needed safety.
Right away, the two apologized for their lack of communication and for letting things get physical between them. They agreed to tell anyone who asked that the cheating rumors were not true, and that they were back together again.
Support CCR
Help support CCR’s free services by donating, sponsoring a training participant, shopping through Amazon Smile or Giving Assistant, donating securities, volunteering or becoming a referral partner. Your support will allow us to continue to provide pro bono mediation services and conflict management training to Chicago area institutions, organizations and businesses.
