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Dispute resolution professionals assist individuals and families in reaching mutually acceptable agreements to resolve conflict through the use of mediation. Cases most often mediated include parenting plans, divorce settlements, neighbor-to-neighbor disputes, landlord/tenant disputes, business and consumer matters, educational concerns, work-place disputes, Small Claims Court, etc. Also provides group/meeting facilitation and conflict resolution skills training.

Schedules meetings with disputing parties in safe, neutral settings.

Examples of parties the agency works with:

- Families experiencing divorce, to reach custody and parenting agreements

- Juvenile offenders, to see the harm caused by their crimes, rebuild trust, and reduce recidivism

- Neighbors facing property disputes in small claims court

- Parents and their children who are involved in the child welfare system

- Companies challenged with internal employee disputes, learning new ways to communicate

- Parents with concerns regarding their special needs child's instructional path

- Relatives navigating the care of their elders

- Tenants facing eviction and homelessness, to participate in mediation and reach agreements to remain in their housing or create a structured path forward

- Landlords looking at way to keep tenants in occupancy or to minimize expenses associated with the formal eviction process

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Mediation
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Conflict Resolution Training

Offers to help families and children manage mental health challenges, healthy choices, and social issues at home and in the community. Services are provided in the home on a weekly basis, sometimes more often if needed. This allows children and families to learn and apply skills in their natural setting. Areas addressed include communication, conflict resolution, social skills, and emotional coping.

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Social Skills Training
Conflict Resolution Training
Mental Health Intervention Programs

Provides individual and family therapy to youth receiving case management services, as well as education, support, and therapy for biological parents and foster parents. Therapy sessions typically take place within foster homes, facilitating better communication with foster parents regarding clients' behaviors and their ability to adjust to living in foster care. Additionally, offers training to help youth and families develop conflict resolution skills, equipping them with techniques to address disagreements constructively and prevent escalation.

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Conflict Resolution Training
Abuse Counseling
Case/Care Management
General Counseling Services
Offers farmers and ranchers mediation as an effective means to resolve agricultural disputes. The mediation process maintains confidentiality, fosters positive relationships, allows participants a voice in the solution and is cost effective.

Free one-on-one clinics are held monthly at various sites throughout Nebraska. Professionals provide education and resources on mediation, farm finances, legal matters, farm succession planning and USDA farm programs.

Offers to help families and children manage mental health challenges, healthy choices, and social issues at home and in the community. Services are provided in the home on a weekly basis, sometimes more often if needed. This allows children and families to learn and apply skills in their natural setting. Areas addressed include communication, conflict resolution, social skills, and emotional coping.

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Social Skills Training
Conflict Resolution Training
Mental Health Intervention Programs

Designed to fine-tune and bring enrichment to any relationship, whether abuse is present or not. Topics covered in class include:
- Anger management
- Defining and identifying abuse
- Childhood wounds
- Male and female differences
- Communication
- Conflict resolution
- Forgiveness
- Developing trust
- Guilt and shame
- Reactive lifestyles
- Healthy and lasting relationships
- Parenting skills

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Communication Training
Anger Management
Conflict Resolution Training
Family Life Education
Mediation for dispute settlement, such as divorce, child custody, small claims, consumer business, tenant/landlord, estate settlement and planning, debt, etc.

Elder mediation with families of elderly to make decisions.

Juvenile parole/probation mediation when conflict in the youth's life increases the risk of further law violation or incarceration.

Offers large group facilitation, conflict resolution training workshops, and family group conferencing.

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Conflict Resolution Training
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Mediation