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To provide mediation services for child custody, divorce, and support matters in Berks County.

Provides speakers and educational material about fair housing, tenant-landlord problems, and mediation services. Offers specific advocacy for renters and homeowners with housing problems.

Receives, investigate, and works to resolve complaints related to consumer issues, health care issues, insurance fraud, violations of the Pennsylvania Do Not Call Law, SPAM email and junk mail, and numerous other subjects. Preventing crimes.

Offers advice and guidance in resolving and mitigating disputes.

Facilitates restorative dialogues that provide deeper opportunities for individuals to be meaningfully accountable for their actions and allow parties to work together to heal and plan how to "make things right." Offers four models of restorative dialogue: Community Group Conferencing, Victim-Offender Conferencing, Restorative Circles, and Family Group Decision Making.

Helps settle most disputes via conflict resolution services, including mediation and conflict coaching. Provides trained mediators for disputes involving neighbors, neighborhood groups, youth-related problems and fights, landlord/tenant, noise, trash, business/consumer, child custody, harassment/vandalism, and other minor criminal issues. Unable to address domestic violence-related situations.

Offers a guided process where parties come together to work out a solution to a particular youth or family issue, such as parent-child disputes, communication issues, and behavior conflicts.

Provides free and confidential mediation services to consumers and small businesses. The network is affiliated with broadcast media.

Administers the special education dispute resolution system in Pennsylvania to include due process, mediation, and IEP facilitation. Creates agreement training and conflict resolution skills training that is also available to families and schools.

Provides face-to-face restorative mediation services. Offers dialogue services that can help individuals work through a dispute at a lower cost, while maintaining good relations compared to going to court. Offered to individuals who have been in a conflict, whether neighbor, landlord, tenant, spouse or family of elder. Serves youth and adults in addition to organizations.

Provides information for families and advocates of children with disabilities about school related concerns, special education regulations, procedural safeguards, and general disability questions.

Youth Aid Panels provide a restorative response to juvenile crime by involving the victim, offender and community. The Youth Aid Panel provides an alternative to juvenile court. The panel is a group of six trained volunteers who enter into a contract with first-time juvenile offenders. The contract allows the individual to make amends for a crime in exchange for wiping the offense off his or her permanent record. The offense must be a non-violent one. Juveniles must make an unconditional admission of guilt and perform an act of retribution such as community service, participating in rehabilitation and awareness seminar or writing an essay. Failure to fulfill the contract will result in the case being sent to juvenile court.

Offers services such as educational programs, parenting classes, peer mediation, and youth enrichment programs to provide youth and teens with skills and coping mechanisms to manage challenges of childhood, adolescence, and parenting.

Two primary functions: to prevent and remedy unfair labor practices, whether committed by labor organizations or employers, and; to establish whether or not certain groups of employees desire labor organization representation for collective-bargaining purposes, and if so, which union.

Offers services such as educational programs, parenting classes, peer mediation, and youth enrichment programs to provide youth and teens with skills and coping mechanisms to manage challenges of childhood, adolescence, and parenting.

Offers the services of trained and experienced mediators to help people who are in conflict communicate more effectively. Often, with this service, parties are able to resolve disputes without going to court, sparing expense for the public and for the people involved.

Assists in negotiating the case with other disputants. Areas of dispute resolution: divorce property (asset-debt), allocation, custody and visitation negotiations, litigation, boundary disputes, contract matters, personal injury settlements, labor disputes, construction/building controversies, landlord-tenant disputes, will contests, and mock trials for attorneys to help evaluate the merits of a case.

Provides training in mediation and negotiation skills, as well as conflict resolution services (divorce, relationship, landlord/tenant, elderly, HOA) for individuals and groups. Operates as an Alternate Dispute Resolution Center and works to prevent targeted violence. Offers neighborhood dispute resolution services, landlord/tenant dispute resolution, community mediation, and divorce mediation.

Provides a wide range of mediation and conflict resolution services, addressing issues such as elder mediation, family mediation, housing disputes, multi-party mediation, neighborhood disputes, peer mediation for students, petty crimes, school attendance mediation, small claims, and workplace disputes. Also provides conflict resolution coaching.

Assesses the dispute and discuss possible outcomes with the disputants through Binding Resolution and Non-binding Resolution.

Facilitates those in a crime or other violation ("victim" and "offender") to address harm and "make things right" though a face-to-face dialogue process that ensures respect and safety. Can work alongside criminal justice proceedings for youth and adults.

Offers the services of trained and experienced mediators to help people who are in conflict communicate more effectively. Often, with this service, parties are able to resolve disputes without going to court, sparing expense for the public and for the people involved.

Serves a neutral mediators to help you and the parties that you are having the dispute with find an amicable resolution. Promotes positive communication and, if possible, helps the disputants find a resolution which is mutually beneficial.

Provide services to help resolve disputes outside of the legal system. Offer assistance with neighborhood disputes, children and youth disputes, and domestic and family differences.