My New York City Council Member
District Office Address
1694 Flatbush Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11210
District Office Phone
718-951-8177
District Office Fax
718-951-8191
Legislative Office Address
250 Broadway
18th Floor
New York, NY 10007
Legislative Office Phone
212-788-6859
Monday, May 19, 2008
Friday, May 16, 2008
Community Interest
I am interested in finding out more about what is happening to public transportation. I will do this my contacting my community board in order to get more information.
What is a Community Board?
Community Boards is a community based mediation program, established in 1976, in San Francisco, California, USA. The program utilizes volunteers from from the neighbourhoods of the city, who work with people involved in disagreements toward the end of resolving the dispute, repairing the relationship, and healing or preventing riffs in the community.
The Community Boards program promotes a model of mediation that emphasises the collective involvement of members of the community, recruiting mediators who are represenative of their neighbourhoods—with direct awareness of local needs and concerns. The program utilizes a form of case management in which "case developers" make in–person contact with potential parties in order to encourage participation. Once the parties involved have consented to participate, they are assisted by a panel (usually 3) of mediators.
The program is among the most distant approach to formal legal process among the various models of community mediation. The most dramatic example of this viewpoint is the contention by the program's mediators that any agreement reached should be enforceable only by the good will and voluntary compliance of the parties. Proponents have asserted that the program's impact is much broader than the resolution of individual disputes—reaching into issues of tolerance, acceptance and social justice.
Community Boards has also been active in the promotion of K-12 school-based peer mediation programs since 1982.
The Community Boards program promotes a model of mediation that emphasises the collective involvement of members of the community, recruiting mediators who are represenative of their neighbourhoods—with direct awareness of local needs and concerns. The program utilizes a form of case management in which "case developers" make in–person contact with potential parties in order to encourage participation. Once the parties involved have consented to participate, they are assisted by a panel (usually 3) of mediators.
The program is among the most distant approach to formal legal process among the various models of community mediation. The most dramatic example of this viewpoint is the contention by the program's mediators that any agreement reached should be enforceable only by the good will and voluntary compliance of the parties. Proponents have asserted that the program's impact is much broader than the resolution of individual disputes—reaching into issues of tolerance, acceptance and social justice.
Community Boards has also been active in the promotion of K-12 school-based peer mediation programs since 1982.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
My state assembly person
Assemblywoman
Rhoda Jacobs
42nd Assembly District
DISTRICT OFFICE
2294 Nostrand Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11210
718-434-0446
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Monday, May 12, 2008
Monday, May 5, 2008
Friday, May 2, 2008
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