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Our History |
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The MVCDR (formerly the
Martha's Vineyard Mediation Program) was founded in 1984. Known
as the Edgartown District Court Mediation Program and modeled after
the Urban Mediation Project in Dorchester, Massachusetts, the
program at first was court-based, taking only cases referred
by the Edgartown division of the
District Court. In 1990, the program expanded to accept
cases from the community of Dukes County. Today the program
is still approved by the state as a court-annexed
mediation program, able to handle cases referred by the District Court, the
Probate and Family Court, and the Superior Court on the Island,
but our mediators also work on community conflicts involving neighbors, landlords and
tenants, homeowners and contractors, business owners, parents and children, partners,
and spouses. We also offer facilitation for large or small meetings as
well as coaching and training in conflict skills for individuals and
groups. In 2008, reflecting our expanded services, we became
the Martha's Vineyard Center for Dispute Resolution. |
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