Tri Community Mediation Inc

Tri Community Mediation is a nonprofit organization that offers mediation and conflict resolution services in Wicomico, Worcester, and Somerset Counties. In order to make mediation accessible to everyone, we provide mediation at no cost to participants. We are a program of the community, by the community, and for the community. It is our mission to create a more just and peaceful Lower Eastern Shore. We are guided by the "Ten Points" of community mediation:

1. Train community members who reflect the community's diversity.

2. Provide mediation services at no cost or on a sliding scale.

3. Hold mediations in neighborhoods where disputes occur.

4. Schedule mediations at a time and place convenient to the participants.

5. Encourage early use of mediation to prevent violence or to reduce the need for court intervention, as

well as provide mediation at any stage in a dispute.

6. Mediate community-based disputes that come from diverse referral sources.

7. Educate community members about conflict resolution and mediation.

8. Maintain high quality mediators.

9. Work with the community in governing community mediation programs Provide mediation, education, and potentially other conflict resolution processes to community members who reflect the community's diversity.

10. Provide mediation, education, and potentially other conflict resolution processes to community members who reflect the community's diversity with regard to age, race, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, income, education, religion, life experience, and geographic location.