The NAFCM Story is a Community Story

This holiday season, let's celebrate the people who are helping to bring peace and joy to our communities througout - and beyond - the holiday season.

The National Association for Community Mediation connects and educates 350+ community mediation centers across North America and all the way to Guam. These centers help communities address dozens of types of conflicts ranging from disputes between neighbors, to rental issues between landlords and tenants, to facilitating citizen complaints against police. In other words, these centers do the work at the heart of the holiday season all year long.

Examples of their great work include:

In 2022, the Dayton OH center teamed up with the city and police force to create the nation's first Mediation Response Unit. Unarmed mediators now respond to non-violent 911 calls. The community and the police love their work and their call volume has increased.
In 2023, centers in Georgia, Ohio, Nebraska, Virginia, and Washington started working with school districts and other organizations to help school communitites have constructive, rather than destructive, conversations. They're using a toolbox created by NAFCM along with Living Room Conversations and George Mason University. Already they're helping de-escalate tensions and surface solutions.

NAFCM helps these centers learn from and with each other so that good ideas in one community get replicated into other communities. Join us in supporting this important and exciting work by participating in NAFCM's first ever online auction!

"September Field" - An Autographed Photograph by Kentucky Photographer James Archambeault (1943-2019)