WHAT WE DO

Kids Managing Conflict has been finding ways to bring dispute resolution tools to students since 2007, and will continue to support youth that want to resolve conflicts peacefully. In just the last 10 years, KMC has been able to provide 41 California schools with $115,000 in grants.

Each grant provides funds to:

TRAIN students with the same skill sthat professional mediators use

CREATE a structure for an on-campus Peer Mediation Program

PROVIDE assessment tools that highlight positive changes to their school environment, and to identify areas for new future growth.

APPLY FOR GRANTS

Can your school benefit from having it’s own Peer Mediation program?

Start the CHANGE, apply for a grant this year!

Help your school manage conflict successfully

Accepting Applications MAY 1 — JUNE 30

Apply Here

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

For our First Year Grant Recipients, KMC helps get their first peer mediator training, and establish their own program.

Our Second and Third Year Recipients use funds to train NEW mediators, and for program growth and sustainability.

HOW DOES PEER MEDIATION

ACTUALLY WORK?

Imagine two students get into some kind of verbal fight/conflict. Normally, this means adults step in, stop the argument, and sometimes even punish them.

Suppose one of their "peers" (fellow student) has been trained to use a dispute resolution process for people their own age.

Will our two students feel more understood, and less judged or punished, by the School Administrators, or one of their Peers with mediator skills?

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

EMPOWERING THE NEXT GENERATION OF MEDIATORS
With such an impressive mediation portfolio, it's surprising to hear KMC's President, Anne Sawyer tell us her mediation career began “totally by accident”...