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| Mediation Response Unit: Conflict to Conversation in the Community |
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| Start Date: | 4/6/2023 | Start Time: | 8:00 AM |
| End Date: | 4/6/2023 | End Time: | 8:00 AM |
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Event Description:
For zoom link, email: mvolpe@jjay.cuny.edu
Co-sponsors: CUNY DRC & ACR GNY
This session will provide an overview of the Mediation Response Unit (MRU), an alternative emergency response program that responds to lower emergent 911/police calls for the City of Dayton, Ohio. Discussion will address its development, purpose and how it is impacting the Dayton community on various levels. Speakers will share how the transformative conflict resolution style is used in their community responses. The MRU was formulated through police reform initiatives after the murder of George Floyd in 2020.
Cherise
D. Hairston is a Certified Transformative Mediator™ with the Institute
for the Study of Conflict Transformation, a certified professional coach
with the Co-Active Training Institute, the International Coaching
Federation, and a Certified Positive Intelligence “Mental Fitness” Coach
with Positive Intelligence, Inc. Cherise is a 2018 recipient of the
City of Dayton Joseph T. Cline Award, a Fellow with the Institute of
Conflict Transformation, a “Elder” Board of Directors with the National
Association for Community Mediation, and is an Adjunct Faculty member
with The Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter School of Peace and Conflict
Resolution at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. Cherise’s conflict
intervention career spans more than 27 years as a practitioner, trainer,
coach, mentor, and published academic scholar. Cherise has been a team
member with the Dayton Mediation Center since 1999 and is the Mediation
Coordinator.
Raven
Cruz Loaiza, MSW, LSW, RA Raven joined the Dayton Mediation Center team
in 2022 as the Mediation Response Coordinator for the newly developed
Mediation Response Unit (MRU). The MRU derived from the City of Dayton’s
police reform initiatives and is in place to provide the community of
Dayton with on scene alternate response options for non-violent
incidences that arise. Raven comes to the Center with a wealth of
knowledge, experience and expertise. Before coming to the Center, Raven
was the director of a rape crisis and anti-human trafficking department
with a victim services agency in northwest Ohio. Raven’s knowledge of
relationship building, community development and program development
paved the way to develop multiple rape crisis centers throughout Ohio.
Raven also developed and managed several anti-human trafficking
coalition chapters that trained hundreds of people on how to identify
and report potential human trafficking situations and developed
countywide protocols for response to human trafficking. Raven has
trained thousands of professionals and community members at various
conferences and forums nationally, statewide and locally on topics such
as human trafficking, sexual violence, interpersonal violence, trauma,
trauma responsive services, crisis management, conflict resolution,
community oriented programming and much more. Raven has two decades of
experience working in law enforcement, children’s services, juvenile
probation and victim services. Raven is a Licensed Social Worker who
holds a Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Louisville
as well as a Bachelor Degree in Social Work and a Bachelor in Criminal
Justice from Wright State University. Raven is also a Registered
Advocate in the State of Ohio. Raven’s passion is to raise awareness
around social injustices and the inequalities of underprivileged
populations in addition to violence affecting all populations.
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Location Information:
ZOOM
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