Cleveland Mediation Center (CMC) begins a new chapter as an independent nonprofit organization this month, legally separating from FrontLine Service. We celebrate this tremendous accomplishment, which took over a year of diligent work and collaboration.
The CMC is a community mediation center that has been resolving disputes and training community members in conflict resolution and mediation for more than 40 years. Founded in June 1981 as the Community Youth Mediation Program (CYMP), the primary focus was on at-risk youth. But the organization’s surveys revealed the at-risk youth overwhelmingly faced issues caused by homelessness and expanded their efforts to address those challenges. The organization began working with community partners in the early 1990s to prevent homelessness and began receiving funding to mediate eviction cases.
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