Continuing Mediator Education Opportunities
Interpersonal Violence & The Impact of Technology
📆When: Thursday, June 18, 2026
⏰Time: 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM CT
Presenter: Karoline Hovorka, Women's Center for Advancement
Education Hours - Approved for:
- Mediator CMEs -- 1 DIPA hour
- Attorney CLEs -- 1 Distance Hour
Program Overview: This training explores how technology is used in interpersonal violence. Participants will learn to recognize tech-facilitated abuse as part of coercive control and understand the challenges faced by survivors, including location tracking, digital surveillance, and misuse of artificial intelligence. The group focuses on building awareness, safety planning, and skills to navigate abuse in a digital world.
🖋️Register at: https://nejudicial-gov.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__uFh1c0HSWScMHt5vEJqbw
âť“Questions? nicole.britten@nejudicial.gov
Impartial Neutrals?
📆When: Tuesday, June 23, 2026
⏰Time: 12:00 p.m. CT
Facilitators: Timothy Braden, J.D.; David Hubbard, J.D.
Education Hours - Approved for:
- Mediator CMEs -- 1 hour of Ethics
Program Overview: The Nebraska Standards of Practice and Ethics for Family Mediators refers to 3 goals and in Section II. Scope, Definition, Mediator's Role, General Principles, Date, paragraph B. Definition of Mediation, refers to "trained impartial neutrals" but what does that really mean? Standard IV Impartiality and Conflict of Interests goes into detail about impartiality and conflict of interest, but is it enough? This one hour Ethics CME will explore the spectrum and structural layers of impartiality and neutrality and the variations in definitions and meaning. Concerns about impartiality and neutrality will be raised in light of power imbalances in mediation and alternatives to the sometimes passive framing of neutrality will be discussed. What do our Nebraska Mediator Ethics require of mediators regarding impartiality and neutrality and what do those Ethics forbid? Do we need to expand our lens that might be holding us back with a limited frame, perspective, and view of impartiality and neutrality. How might self-awareness, mindfulness, and reflective practice help us re-think our duties, responsibilities, and role to better serve the participants.
🖋️Register at: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/9hrGNjCnRvCFFmfzcWTu_g#/registration
âť“Questions? david.hubbard@dc4dc.com
Youth & Technology: Identifying and Responding to Domestic Violence & Human Trafficking
📆When: Wednesday, July 15, 2026
⏰Time: 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM CT
Presenter: Karoline Hovorka, Women's Center for Advancement
Education Hours - Approved for:
- Mediator CMEs -- 1 DIPA hour
- Attorney CLEs -- 1 Distance Hour
Program Overview: This training provides professionals with an understanding of how technology intersects with youth experiences of domestic violence and trafficking. Participants will strengthen skills in risk assessment, safety planning, and trauma-informed responses to better support youth.
🖋️Register at: https://nejudicial-gov.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TeMRm_L6QxWfF7hbLFWUHg
âť“Questions? nicole.britten@nejudicial.gov