COMMUNITY MEDIATION CENTER OF RHODE ISLAND


Community Mediation Center logo570 Broad Street
Providence, RI 02907
Established 1996
Ph 401-273-9999
Website: www.cmcri.org
Email: ajones-herriott@cmcri.org (Executive Director)

With the assistance of volunteer mediators, the Community Mediation Center of Rhode Island provides confidential, affordable mediation services to address a broad variety of public and private disputes. The Center provides training to individuals of all ages, families and organizations to promote the use of peaceful, productive conflict resolution throughout the state.

Fundraising & Administrative Percentage 15%

CMCRI provides conflict resolution training to individuals and organizations across the state. It intervenes in hundreds of disputes annually, both in the community and in the Small Claims Courts. CMCRI assists with:
  • family conflicts
  • court-involved juveniles
  • neighbor-to-neighbor disputes
  • organizational and workplace disputes
  • agricultural conflicts
  • landlord-tenant cases
  • human rights cases.
By providing a forum in which parties meet face-to-face to discuss differences, we offer a voluntary, cooperative and constructive way of resolving conflicts.

CMCRI Programs and Recent Accomplishments



  • In 2009 CMCRI offered 21 mediation and conflict resolution training sessions to 249 children and adults, ranging in age from 7 to 79.
  • CMCRI’s cutting-edge Eviction Prevention Program combines rental assistance to income-eligible tenants, with case management and conflict resolution and mediation techniques to avert eviction.
  • In 2009, this program dispensed rental assistance to avert eviction in 65 separate mediation sessions, affecting 209 income-eligible individuals, at an average cost of $95 per person.