Mediating Community Partnerships
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What once was a residential facility for troubled girls has now become a neighborhood justice center for every resident in greater Philadelphia. In 1982, Sr. Brigid Lawlor conducted a needs assessment of the 14th and 35th police districts in northwest Philadelphia to identify community concerns that fit with the Sisters of Good Shepherd’s mission of reconciliation. Crime and violence had escalated in these neighborhoods, and Sr. Lawlor soon realized that unresolved disputes among the youth concerned community residents. Two years later, Sr. Lawlor and the Sisters of Good Shepherd founded the Good Shepherd Mediation Program (GSMP) to serve the needs of families and children in conflict.
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