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The seventh annual Mediator
Appreciation Day will be from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 19, at
California State University, Fresno, recognizing the work of public
school students who volunteer to help resolve their peers’ conflicts.
Up to 1,000 student conflict mediators from Central, Fresno, Clovis and
Sanger Unified School districts will gather at the Satellite Student
Union on campus to be honored for participating in Fresno State Mediator
Mentors.
The program is a nationally acclaimed university-public school
partnership based in Fresno State’s Kremen School of Education and Human
Development. It trains the student mediators and their teachers by
pairing university students headed for helping professions with
school-based conflict-mediation programs.
“These students 'give up' hang time with their friends to serve others,”
said Dr. Pam Lane-Garon, a professor in the Literacy and Early Education
Department, who directs the program. Joining her at Fresno State are
coordinator Karen DeVoogd and Dr. Arthur Wint, a professor in the Peace
and Conflict Studies program in the College of Social Sciences.
“The relationships built between mentors and mediators are mutually
enlightening and supportive,” Lane-Garon said. “Mentors also learn from
the teachers, counselors and social workers employed at each of the
school sites.”
Partners include the Friends of Civic Engagement, Peace and Conflict
Studies, the Bonner Family Foundation, the Garabedian Foundation, Spano
Enterprises Inc., the Lemmon Family, JAMS and the Association for
Conflict Resolution.
For more information, contact Lane-Garon at
pamelalg@csufresno.edu or
559.278.0320.
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