Supervisor Meeting

    I met with my supervisor, M, at Centro this last week. At the meeting we discussed the ideas that I had, of the staff being trained and the need to decide and choose who might be able to fill the role of mediators. M agreed with me that the training would be a good idea. We talked about the possibility of doing the training with either the Portland organization or the Beaverton center, to which we both agreed would be of great benefit. So I am going to contact those centers and look into the possibility of them providing training for the staff, and compare that to what it might look like if the local center were to provide the training.
   We also talked about how the next little bit of time would look like, and that it is imperative that M start looking for people to assume the role of mediators and be trained, and set up a mentoring period with the local dispute resolution center. I am planning on moving away from the area, but will continue to help from afar as best as possible, and to provide any services I can so that Centro can have a mediation resource for the Latin community here in Lane County. M also talked about networking with other centers in the county to help one another out with providing sufficient resources to the Latin population. Everything just might start to be coming together, and I hope to be able to get things scheduled for training, or at the very minimum find out if these two centers would be able to provide such a service. The work continues...