Our Local Partners
Ohio University
AAMS works closely with Ohio University to provide mediation, group facilitation, and training opportunities throughout the university network at no cost to individual departments.
University staff, faculty, and administrators have utilized this relationship to address a number of conflicts or receive specialized trainings in the areas of communication, group dynamics, resource sharing, and workplace conflict. Students are also welcome to request mediation services or to pursue program relevant volunteer and internship opportunities with AAMS.
Athens County Municipal Court
Mediators are available weekly during small claims court, which takes place on Tuesdays at 1:00pm. Case participants have the option of selecting mediation to try to resolve their dispute. Participants may show up to court, tell the judge they would like to use mediation, and the mediation will immediately take place in a designated area. This service is free.
Athens Area Mediation Service (AAMS) is delighted to continue partnering with the Athens County Department of Job and Family Services (ACDJFS) on the Rural Empowerment project supported by the JAMS Foundation and the National Association for Community Mediation. Through this project partnership, AAMS makes mediation services available to customers and staff of ACDJFS. In doing so we support the fine work of ACDJFS in serving the needs of the county’s most vulnerable. ACDJFS commitment toward Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights aligns with the goals of AAMS and community mediation in general.
AAMS welcomes community members and stakeholders to engage with us in ongoing ways to bring mediation services to more people and places in the region. We are open to your ideas about how we might expand and sustain our services. Please reach out to us: director@athensmediation.org, 740.594-6169, or on social media.
