What is your profession and title?

Mediator and Child Welfare Educator in Private Practice

What is your ADR experience? (trainings and education)

I have been a mediator for 23 years in the areas of parent-adolescent, domestic, juvenile dependency and workplace conflicts. I also have experience as a group facililtator (family group decision-making, child in need of care stakeholder groups and other similar processes) and provide traning on mediation, conflict management and child welfare topics.

What, if any, ADR organizations or groups do you belong to?

Heartland Mediators Association

What are you hoping to get from ADRhub.com

I hope to stay abreast of current alternative dispute resolution issues and network with other ADR professionals.

What other ADR related sites do you visit?

Mediate.com

What else do you want to tell the ADRhub.com community (what you are up to, what you would like to do in ADR, etc.)

My educational background is in social work (MSW at the University of Kansas 1979). I have a private practice of mediation and child welfare education in Topeka, Kansas. My recent practice has focused on mediation in child welfare situations: to prevent placement in foster care when possible, to resolve issues among caregivers, to promote successful reunification, etc. I am interested in putting my extensive experience in child welfare to further use in the mediation/conflict management field.