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McConnell, Roland C.; Holmes, J. Welfred

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“…249 Neutrality is necessary and beneficial because it allows the child to be heard and his or her concerns to surface, which possibly are causes of the truancy or reveal the underlying conflict. 250 The mediator will most often work between adults and minors, and so it is easy for the adult(s) to feel an alliance to the mediator and the minor to feel adverse simply because of the mediator's age. 251 Although it is equally important for the mediator to assure the parents understand that the mediator is not siding with the child or undermining the adults' parenting skills.…”

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Employing Mediation to Approach Truants

Lindstadt¹

2005

Family Court Review

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Truants have been dealt with by state and school officials with heedlessness, suspension, expulsion, and placement under the power of the courts. One problem faced in decreasing truancy is its lack of a common definition. Statistics show high rates of truancy with kids who subsequently drop out of school and there is a strong correlation between drop‐out and unemployment, welfare, low salary, and imprisonment. The juvenile justice system does not reach the root of the truant's individual problems or adequately attempt to solve or assist the child and family in its goal to develop constructive and autonomous individuals. Mediation is an alternative to a punishment‐oriented approach to truancy. Mediation is a process in which a neutral third party helps participants reach their own agreement for resolving a dispute. Mediation is adaptable to the many different causes of truancy and can provide multiple benefits to truants and their families. The Ohio Commission On Dispute Resolution & Conflict Management has the most accomplished and consistently progressing truancy mediation program in the nation. Critics of mediation have scrutinized the process for not placing enough emphasis on mediation's major elements, such as premediation instruction, exploitation of the informality of the process, and a lack of funding, which may render mediation weak and inefficient. Maintaining and emphasizing particular elements will benefit jurisdictions in their utilization of the process.

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Employing Mediation to Approach Truants

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2005

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