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MEET THE 2012
SAN FRANCISCO PEACEMAKER AWARDS RECIPIENTS

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The Raymond Shonholtz Visionary Peacemaker Award

Leslie Simon created and has coordinated Project SURVIVE, the City College of San Francisco's sexual violence prevention program, since 1994. Along with several community-based organizations and a strong group of students, she helped create Expect Respect SF (ERSF) in 2006, which brings youth-friendly healthy relationship and dating violence prevention presenta�tions to all San Francisco public high schools. She has chaired the Women's Studies Department at City College since 2001. In addition, Leslie is a published poet and writer.
 

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The Gail Sadalla Rising Peacemaker Award

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Fatima Albowyha is a member of Abraham Lincoln High School's peer mediation program, who has facilitated mediations with dozens of students and leads her peers in developing a safer school culture. She prides herself on helping other youth by listening to their concerns and helping them develop solutions to their conflicts. Fatima believes that it is better when peers help each other resolve conflict, rather than depending on faculty, because youth mediators can relate better to the students than adults. She strongly believes that peer mediation makes students feel less concerned about bias.
 

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Community Boards Leadership Peacemaker Award

Kids' Turn is the sole provider of Bay Area programs designed to help ease children through the debilitating effects caused by parental separation or divorce. Since it was founded in 1988 by Claire Barnes, the commitment to its mission-to reduce conflict in reorganizing families-has been unwavering. Parental separation occurs in epidemic proportions in our country. Fifty percent of all children in the United States experience this phenomenon before they reach the age of eighteen, and that statistic is significantly increased when the increasing numbers of never-married or never-lived-together parents are included.
 

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Community Boards 2012 Award for Excellence in ADR Practices

The San Francisco Office of Citizen Complaints (OCC) Mediation Program was established in 1995. The mediation program enables complainants to resolve their issues with the implicated officer in a face-to-face dispute resolution process involving a trained mediator. The goal of the program is to bring together the involved parties in an effort to achieve mutual understanding. The OCC Mediation Program provides a safe environment in which citizens and members of the San Francisco Police Department are able to tell their story, be heard, and create mutual understanding regarding the incident that resulted in a complaint being filed.
 

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