Social workers, child care workers, welfare officers, community activists and community development officers, here, are among a group of 32 persons to receive training as community mediators under the Canadian government funded, Improved Access to Justice in the Caribbean (IMPACT Justice) project.
IMPACT Justice is a five-year regional justice sector reform project which is being implemented from within the Caribbean Law Institute Centre, at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus.
The training, which takes place from November 30th to December 4th, 2015, is part of IMPACT Justice’s mandate to build the capacity for community mediation services around the region in an effort to reduce the burden on the courts.
This is the second IMPACT Justice training programme undertaken here. In September the project facilitated two restorative practices training workshops for educators in St Vincent and the Grenadines under its broader Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Programme.
