2019 Most Valuable Peacemaker (MVP) Award: Bonnie Millmore

The Pennsylvania Council of Mediators is honored to celebrate Bonnie Millmore's long and deep influence in Pennsylvania on the recognition of mediation’s benefits. PCM will do so by presenting her with the 2019 Most Valuable Peacemaker Award at its annual conference on April 26-27, 2019. 

Bonnie Millmore has been in the mediation and conflict resolution field for 35 years. She became Director of the community mediation program of The Center For Alternatives in Community Justice in 1984 and retired in 2018, She helped hundreds of families through CACJ's court-referred custody program. For 20 years she consulted as a mediator and trainer with the PA Office of Dispute Resolution program for families with educational disputes. Bonnie worked with many school districts across Pennsylvania to train school students and start peer mediation programs. She worked with the Pennsylvania State University's Justice and
Safety Institute and Office of Human Resources to provide conflict resolution and mediation to a variety of individuals, departments, campuses and outside groups. Beyond mediation, Bonnie most enjoys training and mentoring mediators. 

At the award ceremony Bonnie and her colleagues in mediation will present a panel discussion "Mediation in PA: 30 Years Building a Future, Looking Back and Looking Ahead". Other panel participants include: Cheryl Cutrona, Executive Director, Good Shepherd Mediation Program;
Randy Duque, MA, KR, Deputy Director, Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations, Community Relations Division; Selina Shultz, The Alternative Group; and moderator, Nancy Glidden, Unruh, Turner, Burke & Frees.

The panel will look at the history and future of mediation in Pennsylvania from the perspective of
practitioners with extensive experience in community, family, business, and government agency
mediation programs.