PARENT TRAINING

TRAINING

Parent Training

Create a comprehensive mediation program at your school by providing mediation skill training for parents.

Parent Training

When children have conflicts at home, parents can act as mediators. This approach to problem solving at home will create a consistent experience for your students.

Two-hour evening sessions introduce parents to the concepts and skills of mediation.

Parents are encouraged to bring their children and to practice the mediation process in family role play groups.

CRU Institute provides a four-session manual for parent training. The manual includes sections on the Mediation Process and Skills, Using Med-Arb, Being Your Own Mediator with your children, and Running Family Meetings.

Family Problem Solving Booklets and Refrigerator Magnets help parents deal with family disputes that occur at home

ABOUT CRU INSTITUTE

Experience in mediation and training make CRU Institute a unique organization. Since 1987, our trainers have conducted Student Mediation Training at hundreds of schools. Today, most of these schools train their own students and continue the student mediation program.

THE TEAM

Nancy Kaplan, MSW, CRU Institute Executive Director developed the Conflict Manager and Peer Mediation Programs and the associated training materials. Nancy Kaplan has been a therapist and a mediator for over twenty years. She is a former board member of the Academy of Family Mediators. Her interest in children (she is the mother of eight) makes her a unique person to teach your students the mediation process.

Deanna Morris, MSW, CRU Institute Lead Trainer has trained and been an administrator with CRU since 1992. Deanna brings youthful exuberance as well as skill to our training. She has worked with children in residential care and used mediation skills to help these young people resolve conflict. Her experience also includes foster care and adoption work with families and children, and adolescent therapy in lock down facilities.

Jelani Quinn, CRU Institute Lead Trainer, has been a mediator since age sixteen when he was trained by CRU to be a peer mediator at his high school. He has continued to be a trainer and administrator for CRU. Jelani has a BA degree from University of Washington. He credits his experience with CRU for his interest in psychology and business: his double major. Jelani's youth gives him an advantage when working with young people. His experience as a high school peer mediator is immeasurable for both youth and adults who wish to learn about peer mediation.
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