Our Community Mediation Programs

Los Altos Mediation Program (LAMP)

The Los Altos Mediation Program provides free conciliation and mediation services to residents, property owners and businesses in Los Altos and Los Altos Hills. Typical cases include disputes over property lines, fences and trees, as well as other neighbor issues such as control of pets. The program also addresses issues between consumers and businesses and between tenants and landlords. LAMP is a program of the Los Altos Community Foundation, administered by Project Sentinel and funded by LACF, the City of Los Altos through the Los Altos Police Department and the Town of Los Altos Hills. For more information, visit our webpage on the LACF website or email mediate4lamp@housing.org.

Mountain View Mediation Program

The Mountain view Mediation Program is a free service offered by the City of Mountain View to provide a wide range of dispute resolution services for people who live, work or own property in the City. Please visit the website to learn more about the scope of services offered by this program.  The website also provides information on who to contact to discuss your interests in mediation or learn more about becoming a volunteer mediator. You may also contact us via email mediate4mv@housing.org.

Palo Alto Mediation Program

The Palo alto Mediation Program (PAMP) is a free service offered by the City of Palo Alto to provide a wide range of dispute resolution services to people who live, work or own property in the City. Please visit the PAMP Website to learn more about the scope of services offered by PAMP. The website also provides information on who to contact to discuss your interests in mediation or learn more about becoming a volunteer PAMP mediator. You may also contact us via email pamediation@housing.org.

Stanislaus County Mediation Center (SCMC)

The Stanislaus County Mediation Center, headquartered in Modesto, provides a wide range of freee services to residents, property owners and businesses in Stanislaus County. The Center offers mediation or conciliation of many types of community disputes such as tenant-landlord, property boundaries and fences, consumer, neighbor-to-neighbor and damages claims. In connection with the Superior Court, the Center provides mediation of family court personal property disputes, and staff provide in-court mediation for the small claims and unlawful detainer courts. For more information, please visit the SCMC website or contact us via email solutions@stanislausmediation.org.

Read our Success Stores to learn about typical disputes that our programs have resolved.

Typical questions about the mediation process are answered on the Mediation Process FAQs page.