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Introduction
SPARC is administered through the University of Delawares Conflict Resolution Program by experienced mediators and facilitators who specialize in special education dispute resolution.
SPARC staff adhere to the highest standards of ethics, professional competence, and personal integrity. We are committed to providing confidential and impartial dispute resolution services to those in need.
Each member of the SPARC staff is a trained and
practicing mediator and facilitator. The boxes below expand to provide detail of each staff member's experience in the field of mediation and
facilitation.
| Kathy Murphy | <div class="ExternalClassC3B160EA80A0488FAE834089C2812098"><p>Kathy
Murphy is the Coordinator of the Conflict Resolution Program and
Associate Director of the Institute for Public Administration at the
University of Delaware (UD). She also has a secondary faculty
appointment in the School of Public Policy and Administration in the
College of Arts and Sciences at UD. Ms. Murphy helped create Delaware's
special education mediation program known as SPARC (Special Education
Partnership for the Amicable Resolution of Conflict). She has more than
twenty years of experience as a professional mediator and facilitator. </p><p>Ms. Murphy received advanced mediation training in special education, eldercare, issues of capacity, custody, and divorce from the Harvard Law Program on Negotiation, Elder Decisions, the Atlanta Center for Justice, Lehigh University, the American Arbitration Association, Mediation Matters, and the Montgomery County Mediation Center. She has a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Delaware and an undergraduate degree in Business Administration. </p></div> | | |
| Valdese West | <div class="ExternalClass260D486C17694358B339BFB453CFBA18"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">Valdese West is a conflict resolution practitioner at the Institute for Public Administration at the University of Delaware. <span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);">She </span>has several years of nonprofit policy background and has expertise in o<span id="ms-rterangecursor-start"></span><span id="ms-rterangecursor-end"></span>rganizational leadership, legal studies (with an emphasis on criminal justice), creation of professional development initiatives, and alternative dispute resolution. She is a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) Advocate with a programmatic focus on inclusion.  <span style="text-decoration:underline;"></span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"></span> <span style="text-decoration:underline;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ms. West received her Master of Public Administration degree and a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice degree, both from Strayer University. She also has completed Basic Mediation Training and Family Court Mediation Training at the University of Delaware and the Virginia Judicial System Fairfield Center.<span style="text-decoration:underline;"></span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"></span> </p><br></div> | | |
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