The Dispute Resolution Center of Kitsap County (DRC) strengthens relationships, families, and communities through mediation, facilitation, and training services.
Mediation: A process that allows parties to develop their own solutions to challenging situations with the help of professionally trained mediators.
The goal of the DRC is to contribute to building healthier communities within Kitsap County and beyond through the power of dialogue.
Our services make an impact in achieving this goal through the following:
Important Conversations we can help with:
Other Services we provide include:
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- Basic & Specialty Mediation
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- Community Building Circles
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- Restorative Justice Circles
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- Peer Mediation in schools
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- Youth Theft Prevention Circles
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- De-escalation & Conflict management
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- We offer numerous types of mediations to meet the needs of diverse populations.
- As a non-profit, our service fees are free, low cost, or on a sliding scale.
- We offer mediation services via in-person and zoom formats to better serve our community.
- We are a community leader in modeling and facilitating time tested restorative practice and various kinds of restorative circles.
- We offer a variety of custom trainings for teambuilding, communication conflict management and de-escalation.
- We provide a variety of special effective programs including: Peer Mediation/Peer Support training for Kitsap High Schools and Correction Centers.
- Throughout our services, we help people build connection, maximize communication and co-create better futures.
As of 2023 we are immensely fortunate to be in a new larger building in an excellent central location on Bay Shore Drive, able to provide community gathering and training space. We continue to work to make this space a warm and inviting place, suitable for offering educational opportunities and practice spaces for our mediation and restorative practice programs. This space supports opportunities for growth; provides an area in which people can thrive; helps our community be a place where people will want to live; and, helps empower people to resolve their conflicts in a peaceful, constructive and healthy way. We are working to plan for future remodeling of the space to better serve the needs of staff, volunteers, and the community we serve.