Welcome to Community Solutions of Central Oregon, where our focus is to help people have difficult conversations.

Take a look at our recently released 2016 Annual Report that captures last year's community services, initiatives, and volunteer contributions!

Community Solutions - formerly Central Oregon Mediation - serves the diverse communities of Crook, Deschutes, and Jefferson counties in Central Oregon. We help people have difficult conversations by providing a variety of comprehensive mediation, facilitation, and education programs focused on improving communications needed during life's more difficult moments. As a long-standing community dispute resolution center (CDRC), our staff and more than 35 volunteer mediators are highly qualified and capable people who continue to offer standard-setting programs and customer service.

Our organization continues to evolve following its first 19 years as a CDRC. We’re expanding our education and facilitation services through a combination of new and improved programs designed to reach a broad range of audiences, while addressing an ever growing number of issues and circumstances. Also, we’re proud to now be leveraging the power of the web and social media to make our message and opinions heard. 

Stay tuned to our new Facebook and Twitter efforts, as well as our news announcements and upcoming events via the website. Combined with revolutionary ways of thinking through and resolving conflict, it’s our hope that you’ll not only tune in but join an ever growing number of volunteers, Board members, and community advocates that make Community Solutions the premier dispute resolution resource in Central Oregon.

Helping people have difficult conversations, 

Gary Winterstein
Executive Director

Latest News

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. 

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"The mediator was great, well mannered and a good communicator...great asset to the court."
Small Claims Court Defendant, Redmond, Oregon
"[Our mediator] is a very good listener and also has a lot of knowledge about the human side when dealing with separation."
Separation Client, Bend, Oregon
"[The co-mediators had] good and calm personalities, [and were] focused and helpful with ideas."
Divorce Client, Bend, Oregon
“Thank you…mediation is a valuable service to many people.”
Landlord-Tenant Dispute Client, LaPine, Oregon
“I avoided foreclosure…it was great and the facilitator was wonderful.”
Home Foreclosure Avoidance Program Client, Bend, Oregon
CS 2016 Annual Report