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The 2023 CDSC Bash was a huge success!

Thank you to our generous sponsors:

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2023 Community Peacemaker Honorees
2023 Peacemaker honorees

 The student peer mediators at Acera: The Massachusetts School of Science and Creativity

“Ever since the Peer Mediation training, I’ve been fighting less with my sister.”Acera 7th grade Peer Mediator

 

Our Community Peacemaker Honoree was the student Peer Mediators at Acera: The Massachusetts School of Science and Creativity. The inaugural class of 21 students (grades 5-8) completed their mediation training through CDSC in March 2023. By the end of the school year they had had 12 conflicts referred to mediation, and started outreach initiatives to spread the good word about mediation to their peers. These Peer Mediators serve as leaders and conflict resolution ambassadors in their community. Collectively, the students help their peers resolve conflicts in a constructive way, build more understanding between students, and promote a more peaceful, positive school environment. 

They have used their creativity in sharing mediation with their peers and creating their own roleplay demonstrations in classrooms. We look forward to working with the mediators as they continue to grow in the years to come. 

What other 7th grade peer mediators say about their roles and the program impact: 

➣“I learned how to create safe spaces with my words, and how to reflect other people’s feelings with more clarity and non-bias.”

➣“A lot of the skills we learned in the training can help us solve our own conflicts and not just other people's.”

 

 

Past BASH Peacemaker honorees:

2023: The Peer Mediators at Acera: The Massachusetts School for Science and Creativity

2022: Madison "Matt" Thompson • Elena Sokolow-Kaufman

2021: Brian Corr • Christopher Littlefield • D.G. Mawn

2020: Bobby Joe Leaster

2019: Officer Michael “Whitey” Daniliuk • MIT REFS

2018 : Gail Packer

2017: Brian R. Jerome • Thomas Smith • City Peace, Cambridge Youth Leadership

2016: Rev. Liz Walker • Essential Partners • The BASE

2015: Hon. John Cratsley (Ret.) • Jon Feinman • Cambridge Rindge & Latin Mediation Team

2014: Chandra Banks • John A. Fiske

2013: Lydia Edwards • James E. McGuire

2012: Donna Hicks • Hon. Eileen Shaevel

2011: Hon. Judith Dein • Robert Lewis, Jr. • Rep. Marty Walsh

2010: Steven and Linda Brion-Meisels • Peace First

2009: Martha Coakley • Douglas Stone

2008: Dina Lynch Eisenberg • David E. Matz • Stephen H. Oleskey

2007: Ellen Semonoff • Massachusetts Office of Dispute Resolution (MODR) • David O’Connor • Fredie Kay & Susan Jeghelian

2006: Melissa Brodrick • Brad Honoroff • Jane Honoroff

2005: Jeanne E. Cleary • David A. Hoffman • Robert H. Smith

2004: Albie Davis • Kathy Grant & Scott Harshbarger • James Grumbach • Helen Ladd • Rick Reilly

Past Spirit of Mediation Awardees: 2010: Jack Wofford • 2012: Mimi Grosser