Provides various forms of family law mediation.

-Divorce and separation mediation: Provides couples an opportunity to discuss and reach decisions about custody, parenting plans, visitation, child support, finances, division of assets, etc.

-Relationship coaching: Helps couples experiencing problems improve their relationships.

-Family mediation: Helps parents and children resolve family disputes involving remarriage and step-parenting issues.

- Family Law Clinic: Can prepare and file court paperwork (pleadings and forms) if you meet all of the criteria. See website for details.

Program offers affordable parenting plan mediation sessions for parents who are going through divorce or dissolution, or wish to create or update a formal parenting plan.

Community mediation helps individuals, businesses, neighbors, and families when conflict or disagreements arise. Mediators help parties communicate with understanding, explore solutions, and solve problems. Some conflicts involve neighbor or neighborhood relationships, homeowner association issues, workplace problems, consumer/business disputes, family relationships including separation/divorce or children's issues, money issues, landlord/tenant disputes, land use disputes, and more. Mediation is voluntary, cooperative, and confidential and mediated by one or two impartial mediators who do not take sides, give legal advice, or impose settlements.

Provides mediators for Deschutes County Justice Court Small Claims Court. Litigants have the opportunity to resolve disputes through mediation before proceeding to trial before a judge. Provides periodic mediator training, workshops, and facilitation services for businesses, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations.

Offers court-required parenting class for separating and divorcing parents, a confidential mediation process in which parents meet with a professional, court-approved mediator to develop a parenting plan that is in the best interests of the children, a Family Check-Up program, supervised parenting, and custody evaluations.

Conducts custody investigations. Also provides links to family law information and resources. Participants of this program are mainly referred by the court. However, anyone can call for marriage and divorce counseling. Post-divorce counseling is also provided by this office as well as mediation regarding custody and custody investigations.