DRC Conference August 2010
Cancellation Notice
The Florida Dispute Resolution Center (DRC) of the Florida Supreme Court reluctantly announces it has canceled the Annual Conference for Mediators and Arbitrators scheduled for August 2010. As many of you are aware, the entire state court system has faced both the loss of financial and human resources in the last two years. Nevertheless, during this time, and while many of the units of our colleagues here at the Supreme Court are being forced to cancel statewide programs, the DRC has been given continued approval to offer mediators and arbitrators this wonderful opportunity.
Additionally, this year the new training standards are in effect and are placing an additional staff and time burden on the DRC. Further, the DRC has received requests to begin our regular county court certification training again around the state.
These added responsibilities, along with the departure of our former Director and the transition by the new Director have made it more difficult to accomplish all of our goals and caused us to re-prioritize for this year.
We want you to know, the DRC places a high value on offering our Annual Conference for Mediators and Arbitrators and we hope to announce our plans for 2011 in the near future. As always, the ultimate decision for approval of the conference comes from the Supreme Court, although we anticipate our being able to offer the conference again in 2011.
If you are a certified mediator who needs continuing mediator education (CME) credits, the DRC website, http://www.flcourts.org/gen_public/adr/CME/cmeactivities.shtml, offers a list of organizations offering educational programs for CME credits. In addition, audio recordings from our 2009 conference are available from Convention Recordings, http://www.conventionrecordings.com/. As a reminder, listening to a tape/CD with another person and discussing the materials qualifies as a “live” CME activity.
Please let us know if you have any questions. I look forward to seeing you at a future event (if not before!).
Janice M. Fleischer, J.D.
DRC Director |
