Family Mediation

   LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO, INC.  

Family mediation is provided free of charge and is available to all families with youth and children. Family mediation is a family meeting in your home in which two trained mediators help all family members at the meeting talk about a family problem involving the youth or children in the family.

Each person will have an opportunity to say how they and others haven been affected by this family problem.

How will mediation help me and my family?

Family mediation will help you and your family express your feelings about a family problem involving the youth or children in the family.

Family mediation will assist all family members to agree on positive steps toward solving the problem.

Is this like counseling?

There are important differences between counseling and mediation. In mediation, after you have decided what issues are most important to talk about, YOU come up with ideas on how you want to solve them, guided by the volunteer mediators. Also, mediation generally requires only one or two sessions.

What happens when we agree on a way to handle a family problem?

If you wish, the mediators will assist you to write your agreement down so that all family members will have a copy of the agreement.

How do I get Family Mediation Services?

Call 1-888-LEGAL AID (1-877-534-2524) . or, complete the referral form below and mail it or bring it to:

Legal Aid Society Pro Bono Program

1475 Sixth Ave, 4th Floor

San Diego, CA 92101

or fax the form to 619-471-2774, or e-mail the form to clarem@lassd.org

Pro Bono Program

1475 Sixth Ave. 4th Floor  San Diego, CA 92101

MEDIATION REFERRAL FORM

Date:________________________ Referring Agency: ______________________________________________________

Referring Person: _______________________________ Phone/e-mail:_________________________________________

Address: ____________________________________________________________________________________________

Best time to contact parent/responsible adult:___________________________________________________________

Best dates/times in the next 2 to 3 weeks when family is available for mediation:___________________________

Name of youth(s) _________________________________________________Race:______________________________

Youth's sex, date of birth, school, and school grade: _____________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________________

Languages spoken in family: __________________________________________________________________________

Description of facts and issues to be mediated:

Family mediation services are provided in collaboration with:

La Raza Lawyers Association of San Diego

Pan-Asian Lawyers Association of San Diego

Earl B. Gilliam Bar Association

Filipino American Lawyers of San Diego