Provides confidential dispute resolution services. Can not assist with custody or family law issues. Types of mediation available include:
-Business/consumer mediation: disputes involving service agreements, damage, repairs, refunds, warranty issues, replacements, salesperson complaints, billing, withheld payments, noise, and parking issues
-Elder mediation: disputes involving neighborhood problems, manufactured dwelling park issues, public housing and landlord/tenant issues, property matters, consumer problems, concerns about living arrangements, home care, and family or business finances
-Homeowners Association mediation: disputes involving association rules and regulations, neighbor relations, construction defects, maintenance, common areas, and fees and assessments
-Landlord/tenant mediation: disputes involving late payment of rent, evictions, deposits, repairs, damage, rental agreement violations, pets, noise, and neighbor relations
-Manufactured dwelling park mediation: disputes involving park rules and regulations, environmental issues, rental agreements, home sales, rent payment issues, evictions, pets, and neighbor relations
-Neighborhood mediation: disputes involving noise, fences, parking, vandalism, animal complaints, pet control, property damage or maintenance, harassment, minor assaults, and conflicts over money and personal property

Assists people to communicate, problem solving, and find solutions to their conflicts. Serves neighbors, businesses, landlords, and tenants. Workshops and courses in mediation and conflict communication are provided. Facilitators are provided for group issues.

Provides information services for buildling permits, multifamily dwelling licenses, inspection services, land use permits, and code compliance. Fields complaints about rental housing safety, abandoned vehicles, tall grass and weeds, and illegal dumping. Also provides advocacy for tenants about communicating with landlords about housing conditions.

Mediation services available for a variety of community disputes, including neighbor disputes, landlord/tenant issues, manufactured home community issues, consumer/merchant disputes, family relationships (including elder care issues), small claims, and workplace conflict. Services are voluntary and confidential.

Mediation and conflict management training is provided for those wishing to participate in providing volunteer mediation services.

Trained mediators assist in finding solutions to conflicts. Mediators have experience with interpersonal disputes, family mediation (e.g., parent/teen, runaways), parenting plan adjustments, neighborhood disputes (e.g., barking dogs, property line/easement disputes), landlord/tenant disputes, institutional/business mediation, and victim/offender mediation. Also holds workshops, public lectures, and discussions on mediation and coaches individuals in conflicted situations. Meetings may be held in the client's community to ease time or transportation limitations. Does not mediate domestic violence cases.

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.

The Oregon statewide eviction moratorium has ended as of June 30, 2021. Beginning July 2021 forward, rent is due every month, and tenants can face eviction for nonpayment if rent is not paid on time. No-cause evictions that were allowed prior to COVID-19 are once again allowed.

However, starting July 1, 2021, Oregon Senate Bill 278 provides protection from nonpayment evictions to renters who apply for rent assistance, if they provide documentation of their application to their landlords. This protection lasts for the entire time the application is being processed (ended September 30, 2022). Tenants are encouraged to apply for rent assistance right away if they are unable to pay rent. Tenants must give proof of their application to their landlords as soon as possible, and no later than June 30, 2022 or at or before any first court appearance, whichever is sooner.

Furthermore, until February 28, 2022, evictions cannot be issued for nonpayment of back-due rent, fees, or other charges that accrued between April 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021. Landlords cannot charge late fees for nonpayment of these arrears until March 2022.

The statewide moratorium on foreclosures for nonpayment of mortgages will last until December 31, 2021.

Cowlitz-Wahkiakum Legal Aid coordinates civil legal aid for low income individuals with the help of licensed attorneys and skilled staff in the categories of bankruptcy assistance, vacation of criminal record, eviction prevention, divorce, custody, support, general legal aid, guardianship and wills, and landlord/tenant dispute resolution. Offers a Civil Tribal Legal Clinic addressing family law, landlord/tenant, wills and estate planning, contracts & homeownership. Also provides legal forms to the public for different civil legal issues.

Dispute resolution center offering mediation services through trained volunteer mediators. Mediates small claims, neighbor-to-neighbor disputes, harassment claims, vandalism, property conflicts, family relationships, animal disputes, employee disputes, landlord/tenant disputes, student disputes, noise issues, debt, youth disputes (including parent/teen conflict), and parking disputes.

Also offers restorative justice conferencing for victims, allowing them to confront their offenders in a restorative setting.

Dispute resolution and agreement development in the following areas: Housing, Workplace, Neighbors, Family Members, Youth, Businesses, and Government. Also offers Conflict Resolution training and group meeting facilitation with emphasis on consensus-building.

Mediation is a voluntary, confidential process where people with disputes come together, sit down with a neutral third-party mediator, and talk about ways to solve the dispute. Can assist with landlord/tenant disputes. A Juvenile Victim/Offender mediation program is also available.

Offers periodic Small Claims Mediation Trainings for mediators and those commiting to volunteer at small claims court mediations.

Mediation is a voluntary, confidential process where people with disputes come together, sit down with a neutral third-party mediator, and talk about ways to solve the dispute. Can assist with landlord/tenant disputes. A Juvenile Victim/Offender mediation program is also available.

Offers periodic Small Claims Mediation Trainings for mediators and those commiting to volunteer at small claims court mediations.

State office providing technical assistance and dispute resolution services to landlords and tenants in manufactured dwelling parks. Provides copies of relevant laws and general information on rights and responsibilities. Assists clients in making decisions about how to handle manufactured dwelling park-related situations. May be referred to local mediation services for dispute resolution. Also maintains the statewide Manufactured Home Park Directory, which offers information on spaces available for rent.

Helps community members resolve differences in a positive and personal way outside of the legal system. The program offers confidential and effective mediation services for families and youth, peer mediation training for youth in PPS schools and any other conflicts within Multnomah County. Includes a specific mediation program for landlords and tenants experiencing conflicts such as rent increases, rent past due, housing discrimination, noise, and accommodation needs that could otherwise lead to eviction.

Supports better communication and promotes mutual understanding between landlords and manufactured home owners. The office provides an equitable and low-cost option for manufactured home owners and landlords to resolve disputes concerning alleged violations of the Manufactured/Mobile Home Landlord Tenant Act. The Attorney General's Office will help opposing parties negotiate disputes, determine whether further investigation is needed, decide whether a violation has occurred and issue fines and other penalties when appropriate.