Mediation

==Pittsburgh Mediation Center==
Pittsburgh was blessed to have a non-profit organization called the Pittsburgh Mediation Center. Their offices used to be in the library at the South Side branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. The offices are gone from that location.
The Mediation Center was not funded in this year's budget. 
The people at the Mediation Center aim to resolve disputes. Neighbor to neighbor situations occur. Rather than going to blows, or going to court, the mediation center can serve a valuable role. At times, minor matters in one's life that can turn much worse. The professionals, for a reasonable fee, can step between these parties. Often people live happy ever after.
The Pittsburgh Mediation Center helps in our civic life and helps everyone have an option and better quality of life. City life is tight. People live very near to one another. In the country or other places were there are more spaces and land, perhaps the mediation center would not be as necessary. 
== Funding the Pittsburgh Mediation Center goes to the theme of wellness.==
We need to have a more proactive approach to our solution discovery and efforts to resolve disputes. A viable mediation center helps advance the other theme of building a bigger margin of litigation. We are running to the courts and judges too fequently. Court rooms are not ideal places for finding the best possible outcomes. A mediation center is another place where people can get some assistance and learn to play well with one another.
== Plug the Mediation Center into the Pittsburgh Park District ==
* The Pittsburgh Mediation Center could be put into the community as part of the Pittsburgh Park District. It can have office space there. It can be put into the community's view there. 
* University and nonprofit organizations should lend great assistance to the ongoing operation of the Mediation Center.