We had our first official mediation in Spanish at Centro Latinoamericano. We all three met with a couple that has sought services of Centro. Luckily we all three speak Spanish, so the actual translation portion of things was able to be kept to a minimum (which for time sake was probably really beneficial). I personally feel that we were able to leave the mediation on a better foot than what we started on, which is always a good thing... hopefully in the long run the couple feels the same way too. It's also very good to bring three different styles of mediation together and see how you can best work together for the benefit of the parties for whom you are mediating. We set up another appointment with the couple for mid march, so we will see how things go then as well.
On another good note, we met with Community Mediation Services (CMS) and Centro to discuss future work together. We talked about what we envision for Centro and their resource of mediation services for the Latino community. We also talked about training, mentoring and referring of clients from CMS to Centro, when it gets to that point. It was great to see that this is really something that everybody wants, and feels that the community could benefit from immensely. We will continue to work, do research, and collaborate with each other to help the community. Overall, this week was not too bad.
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