About CRCSTL
Our Mission
Conflict Resolution Center–St. Louis empowers people to resolve conflict through accessible mediation, coaching, and education.
Our Vision
Our communities will have the tools to resolve conflict creatively and reach meaningful, equitable solutions.
About Us
Conflict Resolution Center - St. Louis offers safe, private meetings led by neutral facilitators who help individuals or groups in conflict have a dialogue on the situations they face. Conflict Resolution Center - St. Louis (CRCSTL) was founded in 2017 by John Doggette, Jane Davis, Mary Wheeler, and JoAnn Williams to become the go-to community mediation center in St. Louis. In 2018, CRCSTL received its first contract with the City of St. Louis to provide community mediation services at no cost to St. Louis City employees, residents, and community members.
Since then, CRCSTL has focused on non-litigious disputes between City employees, neighbors, citizens, and police. For example, we have worked with neighbors in conflict over noise or upkeep of the property, with supervisors and employees’ disputes in the workplace, and we have provided mediation for neighborhood groups in a conflict over such issues as proposed new construction, changes in zoning, or reactions to crime.
In 2020, CRCSTL started its housing mediation program, offering mediations even where the parties had a pending court case. With these new service additions, CRCSTL's operations expanded dramatically, and our ability to better serve the St. Louis community. CRCSTL also earned a Platinum Seal of Transparency from GuideStar, the highest seal available! By sharing information about our goals, strategies, capabilities, achievements, and progress indicators, we highlight the difference we help make in the world. Learn more on our GuideStar Profile.
What We Do
Mediation helps people reach agreements, rebuild relationships, and find permanent solutions to their disputes. Mediation is a process that lets people speak for themselves and make their own decisions.
CRCSTL provides a non-profit framework for assuring access to mediation services at the community level with control and responsibility for dispute resolution maintained in the community.
We engage in collaborative initiatives with citizens and organizations to promote peaceful outcomes.
Our Mediators
CRCSTL mediators are professionally trained volunteers who live and work in St. Louis.
Mediators are not judges; they do not take sides or offer suggestions. They guide the participants through the mediation process.
