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Massachusetts

Carollee Hayward has been a successful real estate negotiator for over thirty years and a mediator for the Realtor Association for over twenty years. As a certified Senior's Real Estate Specialist, Carollee was witness to many tense family situations that could have benefitted from mediation. To expand her skills, she qualified for and completed advanced eldermediation and family mediation training. Located in Amherst, NH. www.trianglemediationservices.com

Jane McLaughlin, B.S. Pharmacy, M.A. Criminal Justice, with ten years mediation experience imparts a professional atmosphere of respect and trust. Now focusing exclusively on the challenging issues facing families and aging parents. Former healthcare professional is committed to enhancing long term family relationships and assisting families in making the best decision with loved ones. www.beyondimpasse.org
located at Marston Mills, MA.

Deborah Battles, M.Ed. is a Certified Mediator & Massachusetts State Ombuds. She has an M.Ed. in Organizational Development & Training, has 20 years experience in ADR as Mediator/Facilitator and is the Founder of Dispute Resolution Center. Deborah is a Lead Trainer for Mediation, has supervised and trained many mediators, and has mediated hundreds of disputes, in and out of court.

Arline Kardasis, B.A., M.A.T. is a partner of Elder Decisions (www.ElderDecisions.com). She mediates eldercare and estate matters and regularly trains elder mediators and eldercare professionals. Her presentations include Harvard Law School PON and the Sino-U.S. Judicial Mediation Exchange Program. She is tri-chair of the Elder Decision-Making Section of the Association for Conflict Resolution and is Vice-President of its New England Chapter.

Ericka B. Gray has been a mediator since 1985 and has mediated a wide variety of family and elder issues. In her more than 24 years as a professional mediator, she has mediated thousands of cases and family issues and trained thousands of mediators. A psychologist, she teaches mediation at Boston College Law School and Suffolk Mediation Law School (Boston, MA.) She is the former Executive Director of the Academy of Family Mediators (now Association for Conflict Resolution), directed court programs in NJ and MA, and was a Sr. Mediator with JAMS. An Advanced Practitioner Member of ACR's Family Section, she also has an ACR approved Divorce and Family training program that she teaches at Northwestern University in Chicago. www.familysolve.com

Rikk Larsen is a founding partner of Elder Decisions where he is a mediator, trainer and conflict coach. He has created and presented conflict skills trainings to eldercare professionals from around New England. Rikk serves on a Subcommittee for the Massachusetts Trial Court’s Standing Committee on Dispute Resolution. www.ElderDecisions.com

Melinda Milberg, J.D. has over 28 years as a civil litigator specializing in employment law, business, and probate (estate planning and estate administration). She was appointed by the Governor and served as a Public Member of the Board of Registration in Medicine (hearing officer). As a Special Assistant Attorney General, she worked on consent decrees for state schools for the mentally retarded. Melinda has been a Mediator and Arbitrator since 1993 on employment, divorce, probate and commercial cases.

Jane Beddall, M.A., J.D., founded Dovetail Resolutions, a mediation and consulting firm, after many years as an attorney and mediator. Her personal, professional, and volunteer experiences have included working with elders and their loved ones in various challenging roles and situations. Dovetail's focus is on elder mediation, conflicts in estate planning and settlement, and business (especially family business) conflicts. Its aim to help you achieve piece of mind through preventing conflicts when possible and resolving them when necessary. www.dovetailresolutions.com

Barbara Sunderland Manousso Ph.D.(ABD), M.P.H., T.C.D.M. Texas Credentialed Distinguished Mediator. Mediator since 1993. She has been a trainer, lecturer, and practioner in elder care mediation. Her doctoral dissertation has been in elder care mediation. She mediates for nursing long-term care facilities, probate courts, and families in a crisis or planning mode involving elders and adults. Sometimes a family only needs Manousso as a conflict coach, which can be done by phone or online. Past-president of the Association for Conflict Resolution Houston Chapter. I am also a member of the Houston and New England Chapters of ACR.