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The Martha s Vineyard Times
MVMP offers amicable alternatives to conflict resolution
Martha’s Vineyard Mediation Program provides outreach, facilitation, and conflict coaching for Islanders who need support.
The M.V. Mediation Program is looking to support Islanders with conflict coaching, mediation, and other services during the pandemic.
The Martha’s Vineyard Mediation Program (MVMP) is continuing its mission to support Islanders in all aspects of conflict resolution.
Sara Barnes, executive director of MVMP, said the program has deepened its mission since the outset of the pandemic, and has been able to expand the reach of services they offer related to housing conflicts.
The Martha s Vineyard Times
M.V. Mediation program takes on evictions
The EDI is an array of programs that help landlords and tenants affected by the pandemic.
In collaboration with other Massachusetts mediation centers, through the Massachusetts Office of Public Collaboration network, MVMP is offering free mediation and other services to those on-Island, particularly surrounding housing agreements.
“Housing is crucial. As the winter continues, we know that landlords and tenants are negatively affected by the uncertainty of the present moment,” MVMP executive director Sara Barnes said in the release. “Our mediators can help turn tough times and difficult conversations into self-determined agreements. Housing mediation promotes more effective communication through neutral facilitation as part of the mediation process. Since 1984, we have helped many Islanders resolve conflicts, often without going to court.”
The pandemic has taken a crisis of housing affordability and made it worse. In western Massachusetts and elsewhere, growing numbers of people are falling