The Dispute Settlement Center helps families, schools and communities resolve
conflicts with youth and teaches young people to resolve their own conflicts with
peers in a non-violent way. Services include:
conflicts with youth and teaches young people to resolve their own conflicts with
peers in a non-violent way. Services include:
- Parent/child conflicts
- School related difficulties
- Truancy problems
- Bullying
- Disagreements between youth
- Juvenile offenses
- Victim-Offender
- Family Coaching
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Family Coaching aids in
Family Coaching offers ways to learn how family members can more effectively communicate with each
other; however, it is not a substitute for counseling.
For more information, please contact us at (828)697-7055 or e-mail us at dscyouth@att.net.
- One-on-one skill building for teens and their parents/guardians
- Effective ways to communicate and problem solve with each other
- Coaching sessions for both the family and the individual
- One hour sessions, scheduled every other week over the course of 2 to 3 months
- Sessions in the afternoon/early evening
Family Coaching offers ways to learn how family members can more effectively communicate with each
other; however, it is not a substitute for counseling.
For more information, please contact us at (828)697-7055 or e-mail us at dscyouth@att.net.
Youth Mediation can help with
- Disagreements between youth
- Fights and threats
- School conflicts: problems with behavior, grades, youth-teacher issues, suspensions
- Parent-child issues
- Neighborhood disputes
Truancy mediation involves
- Addressing root causes of truancy
- Creating a clear plan to improve school attendance
- Offering an opportunity for youth, parent/guardian and school officials to work together in
- Improving relationships between child, family and school
Victim-Offender mediation involves
- Is primarily used in juvenile property crimes, assaults, thefts and/or vandalism
- Victim and offender discuss how the harm caused by the crime can be repaired; they may
- Offender is held directly accountable to victim and treated as part of the solution to the crime
- Victims can ask questions and describe how the offense affected them
Referrals for the Youth Mediation Program come from various sources such as juvenile court,
schools, youth-serving agencies, counselors, law enforcement, attorneys and youth or families
themselves.
schools, youth-serving agencies, counselors, law enforcement, attorneys and youth or families
themselves.
