Please contact 541-928-5323 or lbms@linnbentonmediationservices.org for details or to register for any of the classes listed. We can happily provide you with promotional flyers or brochures upon request.
If you're interested in the Oregon Basic Mediation Training to mediate professionally or as a volunteer for LBMS (or any alternative dispute resolution center), please see Mediation Training.
For the following information in Spanish, please see Clases y Talleres
Conflict Skills Workshop This one-night class
is a beginning level workshop for anyone desiring training in conflict
resolution. Topics covered will include approaches to conflict, listening
skills, brain storming solutions, dealing with anger. No
prerequisites.
Cost: $20 (sliding scale scholarships based on income
available)
English session date/time: Monday, September 21, 5:30-9:30pm (Two Rivers Market, downtown Albany)
Spanish session date/time: To Be Announced. Please call for details.
The Parent Project This class is an eight week seminar
for parents interested in learning new skills to help their at-risk children.
This class is designed specifically for parents of children with truancy,
runaway, gang, drug and alcohol issues to prepare them for a successful school
experience in middle or high school and to create a more effective, consistent
home discipline structure. We are excited to offer this class specifically
featuring creative alternatives to conventional parenting for at-risk youth, and
believe that it may be helpful to your clients who are parents.
Cost: maximum fee of $100 (scholarships available), $20 for the
workbook English session date/time: To Be Announced. Please call for details. Spanish session date/time: To Be Announced. Please call for details.
Parents Forever This research-based program of the
University of
Minnesota Extension
Service is designed to help parents learn
how to make informed, child-supportive decisions during a divorce or separation.
The results are healthy children and positive parent-child relationships. Topics
covered will include: the impact of divorce upon children, legal issues and the
role of mediation in divorce and establishing parenting plans, the impact of
divorce upon adults, and communication skills and other tools useful for
starting life anew.
Cost:
$30
English session date/time: Mondays, September 28-October 19 (5:30-7:30 pm) Two Rivers Market, 250 Broadalbin Street SW, Albany OR 97321 Spanish session date/time: To Be Announced
