New Associate Executive Director
Friday, 30 July 2010 13:26 | 
Samuel “Joe” Brummer has been hired as the new Associate Executive Director of Community Mediation, Inc. Formerly, he was the Assistant Training Director for the Rhode Island Council of Community Mental Health Organizations, Inc., in Cranston, Rhode Island where he did planning, developing, and presenting for training and conferences. Joe has presented workshops in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont and Pennsylvania. He has presented on a variety of subjects including conflict, mediation and Nonviolent Communication℠ at Southern Connecticut State University, the University of New Haven, and Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT. He has presented a pre-conference workshop on Nonviolent Communication ℠ at the Society for Public Health Education’s 60th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA, in 2009 and did the presentation Engage, Inspire and Challenge Conference sponsored by the American Association for Health Education (AAHE) and the National Association of Health Education Centers (NAHEC) in collaboration with the Pennsylvania Association for HPERD, Harrisburg, Pa. Joe volunteered and did consulting at the Community Mediation Center of RI for three years. He did volunteer mediation and training for two years at Community Mediation, Inc. in New Haven, CT before becoming their Associate Executive Director.
Brenda Cavanaugh Becomes New Executive Director of Community Mediation, Inc. Monday, 26 July 2010 02:04 |
 As of July 1, 2010, Ms. Brenda Cavanaugh has been hired as the new Executive Director of Community Mediation, Inc. Brenda has been the Associate Director since 2007 and has provided strong program and staff leadership during this period of time. She is originally from Massachusetts, having received a Masters Degree from Wheaton College with a major in history and a minor in education. She has been a High School Special Education teacher for several years, focusing on behavior and emotional disorders. During this time she was trained to set up a peer mediation program in the high school. Brenda was also trained as a mediator in 1997 at the Charlottesville, VA, Community Mediation Center. She worked with the C’ville Community Mediation Center and another nonprofit mediation group – James River Associates – until 2007 having mediated over 200 cases. Brenda set up peer mediation programs and created a conflict resolution workshop at Fluvanna Women’s Prison, facilitated town vision discussions throughout central VA, and was an adjunct Faculty Member at Southern CT State University teaching “Interpersonal Conflict” from 2007 - 2009. Brenda received training through the Graustein Community Leadership Program of greater New Haven and continues to be an active member of that training cohort. |
