Just Solutions

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Just Solutions

Mission & History

JUST SOLUTIONS exists to promote nonviolent ways of dealing with conflict, managing change and building community.


WELCOME TO JUST SOLUTIONS?—the only full service mediation training and services center in the metropolitan Louisville, Kentucky area. Just Solutions, Mediation Services of the Council on Peacemaking, provides facilitation, conflict management and mediation training, and case mediation for disputes in the following areas: family, business, employee relations, healthcare, housing, organizations and community. Our mediators represent a variety of work experiences?—law, business, counseling, human resource management, the public sector, social work, education and psychotherapy.


JUST SOLUTIONS

Chestnut Centre
410 West Chestnut Street
Suite 628
Louisville, KY 40202
phone: (502) 581-1961
fax: (502) 581-9832

e-mail: justsolutn@aol.com


THE COUNCIL ON PEACEMAKING WAS FOUNDED IN 1980 by a group of interfaith clergy who dedicated themselves to providing peaceful alternatives to conflicts on a local, national and global level. Council members have actively addressed human needs and human rights, the arms race, and international conflict while working to educate the community about these issues. The program grew to include mediation in 1991, and eviction prevention in 1993.

IN JUNE 1996, THE BOARD OF THE COUNCIL MADE THE DECISION TO FOCUS PRIMARILY ON MEDIATION and conflict management training and services. This work is carried on through Just Solutions. The Council (d/b/a Just Solutions) is a 501 (c)(3) tax-exempt, non-profit agency funded solely by donations from the community and is not affiliated with or supported by any national or local organizations.

Programs

Mediation Services
Mediation is a process in which a neutral person or person facilitate communication and negotiations between disputing parties to assist them in reaching a reconciliation, a mutually acceptable agreement, or a better understanding of each participants' interests, needs, values and options.

Just Solutions provides co-mediators to ensure gender and diversity balance at no extra cost to you.
All mediators have a minimum of 24 hours of mediation training.
We use a sliding fee scale for divorce and child custody cases.
Our mediators represent a broad spectrum of work experiences?—law, business, counseling/therapy, human resource management, government, social work and education.


Divorce And Child Custody Mediation


We mediate cases referred from:

Jefferson Family Court

self-referred parties who do and do not have attorneys

Mediation can be a particularly useful process for families who are separating their lives yet want to be in control of the decisions regarding their families. Issues regarding parenting time (custody/visitation), child support, property (personal/real), maintenance, education, healthcare, debt/finances and grandparents, are appropriate to discuss in mediation both prior to and after a divorce.





Commercial Mediation



We mediate cases from:

Kentucky and Indiana Courts

self-referred parties who do and do not have attorneys

Just Solutions provides mediation services in the following areas:



-Employment -Nursing home

-Business and consumer -Wills and estates

-ADA -Intra/Inter-organizational

-Landlord/tenant -Congregational

-Property/development -Neighborhood

-Healthcare -School



Diversion Mediation
Diversion mediation is a grant-funded program for parties who have active cases with the Cabinet for Families and Children, or who are referred by some Jefferson County Public Schools personnel.

There is no cost to the parties.

Issues that are appropriate for this program include:

Behavior Issues Educational Neglect Safety
Beyond Control (elementary) Parental Relationships
Communication Hygiene (particularly as related
Discipline Parenting Issues to the children)
Financial Issues Physical Abuse Truancy (middle and
high school)



Parties who may participate in diversion mediation cases include:

parents, children, extended family members, family friends, guardians ad litem, investigators/social workers, school counselors, teachers, family resource & youth services center coordinators and therapeutic counselors.


THIS PROGRAM BEGAN IN 1997 through a grant from the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation and was developed in collaboration with Jefferson County Family Court and Child Protective Services (CPS).


Overview of Programs
?• Divorce Mediation
?• Child Custody

?• Commercial Mediation

?• Diversion Mediation

?• Facilitation Services
?• Mediation Training


FACILITATION SERVICES
Just Solutions provides facilitators for organizations, businesses and religious groups to assist them with:

strategic planning

organizational development

decision making

conflict resolution

Training

CONFLICT MANAGEMENT TRAINING

?· Conflict Management Training

?· Managing Conflict in the Workplace

?· Managing Conflict in Your Organization

In two, four, six and eight hour formats. These trainings are appropriate for businesses, government agencies and non-profit organizations seeking to improve employee relations and communication.



These trainings can be tailored to meet the special needs of your organization.



RESOLVING NEIGHBORHOOD CONFLICTS

Strategies for Success



Seminar Presented by Just Solutions Mediation Services

Sponsored by
Mayor Jerry E. Abramson &
The Louisville Metro Department of Neighborhoods


Have you ever experienced these or other similar challenging situations:

?· You tried saying something to your neighbors about their dogs barking and awakening you in the middle of the night, but they yelled at you and slammed their door in your face

?· A neighbor wants to convert his garage into an apartment and you're concerned about noise, house values dropping, etc.

?· A developer is planning to turn a property that kids in your
neighborhood have played on for years into a parking lot for a nearby church

?· Your neighbor has constructed a fence on what you consider to be your property. You don't have a survey and hate to go to that expense to prove your point

?· Neighborhood teenagers are congregating at businesses and on the sidewalks in a three block area, causing disruption for the businesses and pedestrians



Whether you're facing these difficulties as an individual or as a
neighborhood association, you can acquire skills to help negotiate an
outcome that is workable for everyone.


You Will Learn:

?· Sources of conflict

?· Strategies to get everyone to sit down to talk about the problems

?· How to work toward win-win solutions



REGISTRATION CLOSED
If you're interested in being notified about future workshops, please e-mail justsolutn@aol.com your contact information.


GENERAL INFORMATION
Training Location:
Chestnut Centre (4th & Chestnut)
Basement Conference Center
Enter the building at 610 South 4th Street

Parking

?· On-street parking is available on 4th, 5th and Chestnut Streets

?· Surface parking lots are located on Chestnut St. between 5th and 3rd Streets