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    • Mediation Services

      Resolving disputes is CDR’s specialty.   We’ve mediated thousands of cases over the last 30 years, utilizing well-trained and experienced mediators and case developers to provide high quality services throughout the mediation process.

      We offer mediation services in a variety of areas within our Community, Family, and Restorative Justice Programs.

      Family Mediation

      Separation/Divorce

      Couples

      Co-parenting

      Parent/Teen

      Elder Care & Probate

      Community Mediation

      Neighbor to Neighbor

      Landlord/Tenant

      Manufactured Communities

      Nonprofit/For-profit

      Government/Public

       

       

      Restorative Justice 

      Restorative Justice in Schools

      Community Restorative Justice

      Circuit Court Diversion

      Municipal Court Diversion

      Post-Release Victim-Offender

       

    • Facilitation Services

      CDR has well-trained and experienced facilitators who can work with groups of all sizes and types.

      Our facilitation services are tailored to the needs of a particular group, and we can be flexible with meeting lengths, times, as well as one-time vs. ongoing facilitation needs.

      If you don’t see what you’re looking for here, please reach out to CDR to talk with our staff who can help match our services with your needs. 

      Family Mediation

      Separation/Divorce

      Couples

      Co-parenting

      Parent/Teen

      Elder Care & Probate

      Community Mediation

      Neighbor to Neighbor

      Landlord/Tenant

      Manufactured Communities

      Nonprofit/For-profit

      Government/Public

       

       

      Restorative Justice 

      Restorative Justice in Schools

      Community Restorative Justice

      Circuit Court Diversion

      Municipal Court Diversion

      Post-Release Victim-Offender

       

    • Restorative Justice Services

      CDR has decades of experience with youth and adult restorative justice.

      Restorative justice guides people who commit harms to take a full and active form of accountability.  At the same time, it takes seriously the needs of victims and their right to have a strong voice in how the harm is repaired.  Schools, courts, and workplaces are increasingly training their teams in these values and tools.

      Schools

      CDR supports the growing movement in education for more holistic, equitable, relationship-based discipline structures.  We assist educators and administrators in cultivating meaningful, growth-oriented accountability in their schools through professional development trainings, sustained coaching of specific school personnel, systems consultation, and facilitation of restorative discipline dialogues.

       

      Learn More about CDRs Work in Schools

      Criminal Justice

      In partnership with the Office of the Lane County District Attorney, CDR runs a Restorative Justice Diversion Program.  Defendants who plead into this program go through a series of dialogues to collaboratively explore what full accountability means for their situation, where the impacts have been, and what can be done towards making things right.  This program has an excellent track record of diverting individuals away from sentencing and toward meaningful community integration.  

      Voices of Experience

      Community

      Residents of Lane County may initiate a case with CDR for a Restorative process to address a specific harm. Our trained, experienced facilitators conduct individual meetings with the person harmed and the person or people who caused the harm.  We uncover impacts and needs, and determine whether to convene a dialogue between the parties.  These cases have some resemblance to mediations, but the goals are authentic rebalancing of relationships, humanizing the “other,” and seeking to address real impacts. 

       

  • Resources and Learning

What are Voices of Experience? 

Voices of Experience are those voices of the people who have lived it, who still live it.  These are the voices of those who work through the challenges of reintegrating into society after incarceration.

So often, in fact daily, the voices that need to be heard are ignored, not listened to, or simply not asked. 

The Voices of Experience Project is designed to give voice to the voiceless, to make sure the barriers, the challenges, and most of all the successes, are heard.

There is a form at the bottom of this webpage, for anyone who is interested to participate in this project.

“Because believing in people is where is starts.” – Nicholas Crapser

The current system isn’t working.  Our community is not providing the support that is needed.  And that is the why.  It takes community support, and it takes community buy-in.

Lane County has many excellent agencies, public and non-profit, that serve the needs of individuals reentering and reintegrating after incarceration.  

Through extensive communication and research, CDR has identified a need for a more robust and intentional system for the impacted individuals themselves to report on their experiences, and identify areas for improvement.  

With this system established, these public safety and social service agencies can continue forward in ways that are informed by the real needs of people with that lived experience.  With the Voices of Experience project established, the overall reentry system in Lane County will have a stronger shared narrative, rooted in current realities, and leading to more responsive and effective support for returning individuals.

Voices are heard one at a time, and then all together.  Through empowerment and through recognition.

The system isn’t working as well as it can, not because there is no shared narrative, no shared understanding, but because there is not enough coordinated effort to make the system better.

The Voices of Experience project aims to listen and to learn.  The goal of this project is to empower voices to share experience, and to give recognition and voice to the real life experiences of those who bear the burden of mistake, those who have taken accountability, those who strive to make amends.  

CDR will convene and facilitate listening sessions, individual dialogues, and conduct surveys, to gather as much information as possible.

Voices of experience.  Voices of empowerment. 

Through confidential interview, surveys, and listening sessions, we’ll listen. 

The Voices of Experience project will compile what is heard, what is said, what is needed.  

Not just alone, but all together, the Voices that are heard will change the system, empower the voices that speak, and encourage those that don’t, those that can’t. 

The Voices that need to be heard will change the system and make it better tomorrow than it is today.

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Mediation

For nearly 40 years, CDR has provided high quality mediation services to the communities of Lane County. CDR helps clients through the entire mediation process, from the initial call, to the final agreement and resolution. Our goal is to ensure that the mediation process is responsive, efficient, and affordable. Learn More About Mediation Services

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Facilitation

CDR's facilitation program guides groups through all kinds of issues and group dynamics toward resolution.  Whether your group is new or long-standing, large or small, informal or professional, CDR can help. Learn More About Facilitation Services

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Education and Training

CDR conducts trainings throughout the year in a broad range of topics. Our trainers have a collective hundreds of years of experience in all areas of conflict resolution. Our trainings are available to the public, and we also do custom training for groups of all kinds. Learn More About Trainings and Education Services

Building Peaceful Communities

For the past four decades, CDR has been building more peaceful communities in Lane County.  Our services, and the training and workshops we provide, have helped tens of thousands learn how to use positive communication to transform conflict.

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DIVORCE 101

Once a month, CDR provides a low-cost informational workshop for those considering separation or divorce.
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Upcoming Workshop

Restorative Justice Facilitation Training

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