Northern Virginia Mediation Service Inc

“Board minutes are recorded by the secretary, reviewed by the executive director and president, and approved by the board at the subsequent meeting minutes taken by the secretary including include details of various committee discussions as applicable. In 2024, the board resolved to schedule meetings on a quarterly basis, march, june, september, and december. As 2024 was a transition year, we also had a meeting in january 2024.”

“A draft copy is electronically mailed to each board member for review before filing.”

“New board members are informed of the conflict-of-interest policy, and it is requested that they disclose any current or potential future conflict period in the event of the board decision revolving transactions around which a board member has a conflict of interest the board member shall recuse her or himself from deciding on the issue.”

“Nvms makes its governing documents and financial statements available for review for inspection in the organization's office during normal working hours. None are available on the organization's website.”

“Traning training partnerships are key to nvms's service offerings. We provided restorative justice training to the city of virginia beach police department. We continued to provide group basic mediation skills and process training to graduate and undergraduate students at georgetown university. We also conducted training the trainer training in restorative justice to develop a pipeline for training instructors. Finally, we started to soft launch community education training to community residents.”

“Mediation services mediation and facilitation are also key elements of nvms services, including the following: 340 individuals were supported in small claims cases in fairfax, loudoun, and arlington counties and the city of falls church; 4 private workplace cases were successfully mediated, 12 private family mediation, and 65 child visitation and child support cases.”

“Restorative justice nvms served 121 cases from july 2022-june 30, 2023, compared to 65 cases during the same period last year. In addition, nvms developed a partnership with the office of the commonwealth attorney of fairfax to establish the adult accountability for safer communities diversion program. Finally, the city of virginia beach contracted with nvms to provide restorative justice training. The contract came through in 2022, but the actual training took place in 2023. The city of virginia beach was modeling its rj program on nvms's restorative justice partnership with fairfax county, known as the alternative accountability program for eligible juvenile offenses.”

“Consultant fees: program service expenses 118,640. Management and general expenses 20,839. Fundraising expenses 10,247. Total expenses 149,726.”

“The process has not changed from the prior year. The board of directors is responsible for the oversight regarding the independent audit and selection of the independent auditors.”