Provides services for runaway youth and youth at risk of running away, including:
-Crisis hotline
-Shelter care in a certified host home or shelter for up to 21 days
-Case management and advocacy
-Crisis intervention and support counseling
-Mediation between youth and families
-Area-wide service coordination, referrals, and information

Provides services for runaway youth and youth at risk of running away, including:
-Crisis hotline
-Shelter care in a certified host home or shelter for up to 21 days
-Case management and advocacy
-Crisis intervention and support counseling
-Mediation between youth and families
-Area-wide service coordination, referrals, and information

Provides confidential dispute resolution services. 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, solve problems, 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 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.

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 volunteer mediators help settle disputes among friends, neighbors, family members, co-workers, and business associates and customers. Assists county circuit courts by mediating small claims and residential eviction matters. Also provides specialized programs for mediation with foster families and juvenile court. The Youth Conflict Resolution and Violence Prevention program works with middle and high school students to teach mediation skills, including self-regulation, communication, and problem-solving.

Trained volunteer mediators help settle disputes among friends, neighbors, family members, co-workers, and business associates and customers. Assists county circuit courts by mediating small claims and residential eviction matters. Also provides specialized programs for mediation with foster families and juvenile court. The Youth Conflict Resolution and Violence Prevention program works with middle and high school students to teach mediation skills, including self-regulation, communication, and problem-solving.

Community Mediation Services (CMS) provides mediation services for parenting plans, neighbor-to-neighbor, landlord-tenant, divorce, elder care, small claims, and foreclosure cases. Also provides dispute resolution services, training, and meeting facilitation in the workplace.

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.

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 relationship 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.

Direction Service serves as the lead agency for The Center for Appropriate Dispute Resolution in Special Education (CADRE). CADRE leverages the experience of individual and organizational leaders to provide efficient, effective and high quality technical assistance. These affiliations include a unique blend of parents and professionals, expertise in technical assistance and extensive knowledge of dispute resolution practices. CADRE builds its activities, products and services around the needs of state and local education and early intervention systems, families, educators, service providers, parent centers, and dispute resolution programs and practitioners.

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.

Focus on Children: Court-required parenting class for separating and divorcing parents, which equips parents with skills for building strong relationships with their children and co-parents. The class addresses custody, parenting time, and the mediation process. Attendance at this class meets court requirements for parent education and mediation orientation.

Custody and Parenting Time Mediations: Mediation is a confidential 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. The parenting plan includes decision-making (custody); parenting time schedules (including routine parenting time, holiday, and vacation); parental rights and responsibilities; and parental guidelines. Parents must first attend Focus on Children prior to participating in mediation.

Family Check-Up (FCU): A brief, parent-centered, strength-based program. FCU consists of three appointments which include meeting with staff to share family information; working on tasks with the child in a video-recorded session; and participating in a feedback session.

Supervised Parenting Time: Offers parents an opportunity for safe and meaningful contact with their children.

Custody Evaluations: Evaluators meet three times with each parent, once with the children, and other contacts as necessary. Evaluators will prepare custody and parenting time reports and recommendation.

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.

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.

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 family and youth, peer mediation training for youth in PPS schools, any other conflicts within Multnomah County.

Provides a variety of mediation and facilitation services including free landlord/tenant mediation and conflict coaching, community mediation, workplace interventions, and small claims and eviction mediation through Jackson County Circuit Court.

The Division of Child Support establishes paternity at the request of fathers or mothers, issues initial child support orders, modifies existing child support orders, enforces existing child support orders, interfaces with the state agency that tracks the collection of child support orders, and answers clients' questions about their cases. The office represents the State of Oregon and not the parent.

The Oregon Child Support Program has mediators throughout Oregon who are able to offer assistance developing parenting plans. A parenting plan is a written agreement between parents. It defines when a child will be with each parent (parenting time) and how decisions about the child will be made. It is used when parents are not living together. Sometimes parents agree about these issues and write their own plans, while others use the help of a mediator or attorney. A parenting plan may also be ordered by a judge after a trial or hearing. Safety Focused Parenting Plans are also available.

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.