Wkly Mtg: Mark Kleiman
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New York
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Oct 22, 2015 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
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SPEAKER: Mark Kleiman – Oct 22
Criminal, Civil and Family Court; Child Welfare & the Probation Dept.
Mark Kleiman will be speaking about Community Mediation Services’ involvement with the Criminal, Civil and Family Court systems. He will also address the agencies connection to the Child Welfare system as well as the Department of Probation. The scope of impact the organization has as a community center will also be covered. Three programs will be highlighted: the developing program between CMS and the Department of Corrections; the Community Policing Initiative and the developing Veteran’s Program.
About Mark Kleiman
Mark Kleiman, Esq. began his career as an attorney in family court for the Juvenile Rights Division of The Legal Aid Society. Recognizing the system as inadequate if not damaging to deal with family issues, he founded and has been executive director of Community Mediation Services, Inc. in New York City since 1983. The agency grew from a mentoring program diverting youth from the family court to an agency with over 100 employees. During this time he has developed court diversion programs across the city in the areas of juvenile and criminal justice, community and family mediation, education, child welfare, youth development and homelessness.
Programs include: the state court-funded community mediation program for Queens County (2.4 million people) designed with five sites within a very diverse communities; a program to induce non-custodial parents to participate in their children’s lives, programs for youth diverted from the juvenile and criminal justice systems; diversion programs for child welfare, homelessness prevention, restorative justice programs for juveniles as well as young people on criminal court probation, student and staff training as well as peer mediation and other discipline related programs in schools and the first New York City-wide family court custody mediation program. In addition, applications of dialogue and other collaborative processes in the community have resulted in coalitions to enhance the child welfare system, prevent homelessness, enhance safety in schools and foster better relations between the police and the community.
Mark was a founding member of both the New York City and New York State divorce mediation councils, a former board member of the New York State Dispute Resolution Association (NYSDRA) and the National Association for Community Mediation (NAFCM). As a founding member of Mediators Beyond Borders, he has established a partnership between CMS and Mosaica, the community mediation program in Jerusalem as part of MBB’s Israel Project.
An Office of Court Administration certified trainer, he co-authored the court’s first custody/visitation mediation curriculum. He has also designed curricula for community mediation, parent-teen mediation, mediation for social workers, conflict resolution for a diverse population of youth via a JAMS grant award as well as applications for group homes and juvenile facilities. He also co-wrote a conflict resolution curriculum for Americorps volunteers for NAFCM.
Mr. Kleiman has created the Values-Centered Mediation model and has trained over 750 mediators in this model. Inspired by the work of Viktor Frankl, the mediator probes for the meaning and value the parties attach to the actions, objects, relationships and consequences of the conflict. These insights deepen the understanding of the parties’ motivations and expose a more nuanced array of options for settlement.
He is the 2011 winner of NYSDRA’s Lawrence Cooke award for Innovation in Mediation and the 2013 Association for Conflict Resolution’s John M. Haynes Distinguished Mediator Award.
About Mark Kleiman
Mark Kleiman, Esq. began his career as an attorney in family court for the Juvenile Rights Division of The Legal Aid Society. Recognizing the system as inadequate if not damaging to deal with family issues, he founded and has been executive director of Community Mediation Services, Inc. in New York City since 1983. The agency grew from a mentoring program diverting youth from the family court to an agency with over 100 employees. During this time he has developed court diversion programs across the city in the areas of juvenile and criminal justice, community and family mediation, education, child welfare, youth development and homelessness.
Programs include: the state court-funded community mediation program for Queens County (2.4 million people) designed with five sites within a very diverse communities; a program to induce non-custodial parents to participate in their children’s lives, programs for youth diverted from the juvenile and criminal justice systems; diversion programs for child welfare, homelessness prevention, restorative justice programs for juveniles as well as young people on criminal court probation, student and staff training as well as peer mediation and other discipline related programs in schools and the first New York City-wide family court custody mediation program. In addition, applications of dialogue and other collaborative processes in the community have resulted in coalitions to enhance the child welfare system, prevent homelessness, enhance safety in schools and foster better relations between the police and the community.
Mark was a founding member of both the New York City and New York State divorce mediation councils, a former board member of the New York State Dispute Resolution Association (NYSDRA) and the National Association for Community Mediation (NAFCM). As a founding member of Mediators Beyond Borders, he has established a partnership between CMS and Mosaica, the community mediation program in Jerusalem as part of MBB’s Israel Project.
An Office of Court Administration certified trainer, he co-authored the court’s first custody/visitation mediation curriculum. He has also designed curricula for community mediation, parent-teen mediation, mediation for social workers, conflict resolution for a diverse population of youth via a JAMS grant award as well as applications for group homes and juvenile facilities. He also co-wrote a conflict resolution curriculum for Americorps volunteers for NAFCM.
Mr. Kleiman has created the Values-Centered Mediation model and has trained over 750 mediators in this model. Inspired by the work of Viktor Frankl, the mediator probes for the meaning and value the parties attach to the actions, objects, relationships and consequences of the conflict. These insights deepen the understanding of the parties’ motivations and expose a more nuanced array of options for settlement.
He is the 2011 winner of NYSDRA’s Lawrence Cooke award for Innovation in Mediation and the 2013 Association for Conflict Resolution’s John M. Haynes Distinguished Mediator Award.
Non-Member Guests and Visitors may register by contacting Andreas Runggatscher at ny.rotary@verizon.net
You may also register and prepay with a $5 discount by the Monday before the event at PayPal (no account needed).
You may also register and prepay with a $5 discount by the Monday before the event at PayPal (no account needed).