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01Jun 2017

Community Issues (CI) Facilitation

Community Solutions (CS) continues to improve its ability to provide facilitation services to community groups. This past year we've taken on seven community cases requiring different degrees of facilitation skill. These included two State, two County, and three City related cases. We also take on facilitation work for organizational issues dealing with personnel, special projects, and strategic development. Our facilitators work in teams; one lead, one assistant, and one recording facilitator. We leverage our mediation skills to serve as neutral, third-parties who meet with conveners, plan a specific facilitation approach, hold initial stakeholder meetings, and facilitate discussions on difficult issues. We also utilize a wide range of polling, decision-making, brain-barn storming, issues-solutions collaborative practices, and more. Our latest innovation is the use of Crowdsourcing (Cs) in which we use the reach of the internet to pose open-ended, challenging questions to the public or 'crowd' asking for their perspectives, ideas, and solutions to community issues. Our latest Cs challenge is facilitating group discussions on noise and complaints between Bend's River West neighbors and Century Center businesses, the most current 'Issues-Solutions' matrix for which is included below.



1010 NW 14th Street, Suite 104
Bend OR 97703
Email: support@solutionsco.org
Phone: (541) 383-0187

We're open Monday - Friday from 8:30 am - 4:30 pm. We also schedule weekend hours for clients as needed.

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Our name and logo reflect the broad yet interconnected scope of our services!

Our name 'Community Solutions of Central Oregon' - formerly Central Oregon Mediation - may seem subtle to some, novel to others. In short, our name reflects our emphasis on providing far more than traditional mediation solutions; we provide facilitation and education programs and services as well.

Our logo is a circular, three piece jigsaw puzzle. Each piece represents one of the three main services we provide - Mediation, Facilitation, Education - with contrasting colors meant to differentiate each while also demonstrating that all are related pieces essential to our work as a community dispute resolution center.


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