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About Marty Price, J.D., Mediator, Consultant and Trainer....

Marty Price is the founder and director of the VORP Information and Resource Center in Camas, Washington. He is the founder and former director of the Victim Offender Reconciliation Program (VORP) of Clackamas County (near Portland, Oregon) and has served on the Board of the VORP of Multnomah County (in Portland). He is a board member and former Co-Chair of the Victim-Offender Mediation Association (VOMA), a non-profit, international, educational and advocacy organization that promotes Restorative Justice and supports victim-offender mediation and reconciliation programs. Mr. Price holds Juris Doctor (Doctor of Law) and Bachelor of Social Work degrees from Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.
Specializing in mediation in homicide cases and other crimes of severe violence, Marty Price provides consultation and training to victim-offender mediation programs throughout the United States and abroad. Mr. Price has presented his work on the mediation of seriously violent offenses at conferences on the treatment and prevention of crime, both nationally and internationally. Speaking and training venues have included the U. S. Dept. of Justice Restorative Justice Symposium (1997), National Conference on Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution (NCPCR, 1993-1999), the Annual Conference of the Victim Offender Mediation Association (1993-1998), the Restorative Justice Roundtable of the American Probation and Parole Association (1996), the conference of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution (SPIDR, 1996-98) and Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD, 1997). He served on the faculty of the National Restorative Justice Training Institute Advanced Training for the Mediation of Seriously Violent Crimes at the University of Minnesota School of Social Work (1996).
Mr. Price has served as a consultant and trainer to victim-offender mediation programs in most of the United States, the Territory of Guam, in Mexico and in Central and South America. Price's articles have been published in numerous professional journals. His ground-breaking mediation work with drunk-driving fatality cases has been recognized internationally.
Mr. Price is an attorney and social worker who has worked as a mediator for over 20 years. Previously practicing in Michigan, he transformed his domestic relations litigation practice into a "non-adversarial family law practice," offering peaceful and collaborative resolutions in divorces, child custody and visitation, child abuse and neglect, juvenile delinquency, adoption and guardianship cases. He was a co-founder of the Michigan Mediation Association, which allied lawyer-mediators and mental health therapist-mediators to do "interdisciplinary team mediation" in family law disputes.
Mr. Price has been an administrator and an Adjunct Faculty member at Wayne County Community College, in Detroit. While residing in Michigan, he served on the board of directors of The Haven, a shelter for victims of domestic violence and he provided pro bono legal representation for clients of The Haven.
After leaving the practice of law and now living in the Pacific Northwest for over ten years, Mr. Price recognizes that his mission in life is to bring restorative justice reform to our criminal justice system, empowering victims, offenders and communities to heal the effects of crime and curb recidivism, offering our society a more effective and humanistic alternative to the growing outcry for more prisons and more punishment.
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Marty Price, J.D., an attorney and social worker turned to mediator, is the founder and director of the Victim-Offender Reconciliation Program (VORP) Information and Resource Center, in Camas, Washington. He is the founder and former director of the VORP of Clackamas County (Oregon.) He is a current Board Member and former Co-Chair of the Victim-Offender Mediation Association (VOMA), a non-profit, international, educational and advocacy organization that promotes restorative justice and supports victim-offender mediation and reconciliation programs.

The Center provides information, training, public education, technical assistance, consulting and victim-offender mediation and reconciliation services. We serve non-profit organizations, governmental agencies and individuals. The Center specializes in juvenile justice and the mediation of drunk driving fatality cases and other crimes of severe violence.

Our mission is to bring restorative justice reform to our criminal justice system, to empower victims, offenders and communities to heal the effects of crime, to curb recidivism, and to offer our society a more effective and humanistic alternative to the growing outcry for more prisons and more punishment.

Victim-Offender Reconciliation Program (VORP)
Information and Resource Center
19813 N.E. 13th Street
Camas, WA 98607

(360) 260-1551 Voice
(360) 260-1563 FAX

E-mail: [email protected]
World Wide Web: http://www.vorp.com

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