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Virginia's communities offer early, easy access to conflict resolution and are able to transform conflict situations to prevent violence and to promote strong, harmonious communities.

Forming this Association, Virginia's nonprofit community mediation centers aim to help Virginia communities increase their capacity for transforming conflict at the earliest stages into opportunities for creative resolution.
 
  • Establish VACCR as a legal nonprofit entity
  • Establish a consistent and formal liaison relationships with external organizations and groups with impact the practice of community mediation
  • Promote the visibility and public identity of VACCR
  • Serve as a clearinghouse for legislative issues, contact with legislators, and education of elected officials
  • Identify and develop programs that can be a collaborative effort
  • Increase the circle of skills available within the community relating to mediation/conflict resolution
  • Provide standardized information on the state of community mediation
  • Serve as a key contact and expert voice on mediation in Virginia
  • Build the capacity and excellence of member centers
  • Attain financial solvency for the Association
  • Foster the establishment of new community mediation centers, especially in
    western Virginia and under-served area    s


Overall, the Association will strive to be a model of social entrepreneurship, to capitalize and build on the specialties of Centers, and to be a moral compass on mediation driven not by economic pressures but by community needs.

VACCR is a nonprofit nonstock corporation established as a membership association. Members are drawn from nonprofit community mediation centers in Virginia. The Internal Revenue Service has determined that VACCR qualifies as an exempt 501c3 organization. The IRS determination letter was issued on June 10, 2004.


Membership in VACCR is open to all nonprofit community mediation centers willing to subscribe to the VACCR membership criteria. Current members include all of the nine established community mediation centers located across Virginia.

VACCR is a Statewide Organization Member of the National Association for Community Mediation (NAFCM) and has working relationships with the Virginia Mediation Network and the Department of Dispute Resolution Services at the Supreme Court of Virginia.