[Peace-discuss] Fwd: FW: Local volunteer mediation opportunity with VORP

[Ricky Baldwin]

FYI.

--- "Walling, Jennifer" <jwalling at law.uiuc.edu> wrote:

> Subject: FW: Local volunteer mediation opportunity
> with VORP
> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:42:21 -0500
> From: "Walling, Jennifer" <jwalling at law.uiuc.edu>
> To: "Ricky Baldwin" <baldwinricky at yahoo.com>
> 
> Ricky, 
>  
> Would you mind forwarding this to the peace-discuss
> list?
>  
> Thanks!
>  
> -Jen 
>  
>  I just wanted to let you all know about a volunteer
> opportunity  in
> Champaign County.  
>  
> There's a program through Champaign County called
> the Victim Offender
> Reconciliation Program.  It's part of the Court
> Diversion Services of
> the Champaign County Regional Planning Commission.  
>  
> Basically, the goal of the program is to restore the
> relationship
> between juvenile offenders and their victims, to
> prevent offenders from
> committing further transgressions, and to get the
> community involved in
> restorative justice.  
>  
>  All in all, this program is intended to keep
> juveniles, especially
> disadvantaged juveniles out of the court system and
> lower juvenile
> recidivism rates. 
>  
> As a volunteer, you'll have to go to the mediation
> trainings listed
> below where you'll learn mediation skills
> specifically for the program.
> 
>  
> Here's a brochure with more info...
>
http://www.ccrpc.org/socialservices/pdf/CDS%20-%20Brochure.pdf
>  
> They are doing  a few trainings  this fall.  They
> really need
> volunteers, especially volunteers that will stick
> around for a while.
> This program will get you some GREAT mediation
> experience that will
> really help people in the community.
>  
> If you want to help, please e-mail Mark Krug at
> mkrug at ccrpc.org.  If you
> can't do it this year, e-mail him anyway and he'll
> let you know about
> the training times next year.  
>  
> Thanks!
>  
> -Jen Walling
>  
>  
> P.S.  Here's the info on the trainings...
>  
> These free trainings will occur at the Brookens
> Center, 1776 E.
> Washington St. in Urbana, IL 61801.  The training
> consists of twenty
> hours spread over the following evenings:
> 
> Thursday, 5:30pm to 9:30pm
> Friday, 5:30pm to 9:30pm
> Saturday, 8am to 5pm
> Sunday, 1pm to 5pm
> 
> Realize that you must attend all four dates for all
> listed hours.  I
> cannot reschedule individual students for missed
> sessions.  I would like
> to attempt this on two of the three options listed
> below:
> 
> 
> Aug. 31st - Sep.3rd
> Sep. 7th - 10th
> Sep. 14th - 17th
> 
> Please email me with your availability!  The sooner
> I get responses the
> sooner I can schedule the trainings.  Please email
> your interest and
> availability as soon as possible.
> 
> I will attempt to accomodate everyones' schedules,
> but I cannot
> guarantee this.  If you cannot make the weeks
> selected, I will keep you
> on the waiting list until another training occurs.
> 
> Please feel free to forward this email to other
> interested parties so
> that I may get them on the roster for 2006-2007.
> 
> 


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