Dayton Mediation Center Seeks Volunteers for Juvenile Court Diversion Program
Share your wisdom and time as a Community Impact Panel (CIP) volunteer for the Juvenile Court Diversion Program. Help youth ages 11-17 reflect on choices and avoid a criminal record.
Dayton Mediation Center Seeks Compassionate Volunteers to Mentor Youth and Change Lives 🤝
The Dayton Mediation Center is looking for volunteers to share wisdom, life experiences, care, and time with young people in special circumstances.
Adult volunteers are needed to serve as members of Community Impact Panels (CIPs), part of the Juvenile Court Diversion Program for youth ages eleven to seventeen. CIPs are conversations between a young person, their parents/guardians, and community volunteers.
Panel members talk about what led to the young person's interaction with police and how the community is affected. Volunteers don’t blame, shame, or judge the teen’s choices and may talk about similar choices they have made. The young person may see what was in their control, and what was not, with a hope of making better choices in the future. After that, the case is closed and sealed, and the young person will not have a charge on their record.
CIP volunteers are needed one Saturday morning per month (volunteers who are free weekdays are also welcome). The only requirements are a desire to help and being open to receiving instruction.
To submit an application, please visit daytonmediationcenter.org/getinvolved.
