The Peacemaker Program, Inc. is a non-profit agency offering a wide array of services, including mediation, dispute resolution training, child advocacy, and more. All programs utilize trained volunteers, and rely on state and local funding sources, grants and support from individuals like you!

     The Peacemaker Program, Inc. is headquartered in the city of Utica, Oneida County, New York and is the court recognized Community Dispute Resolution Center for Oneida County. The program was founded in 1994 to respond to a growing community need for juvenile delinquency prevention and conflict resolution services. In 1995, the agency brought the state and nationally affiliated Court Appointed Special Advocate Program for abused and neglected children to Oneida and Herkimer Counties. In 2001, the agency became the designated dispute resolution center for Oneida County, by the New York State Unified Court System. The Peacemaker Program, Inc provides mediation and arbitration services in over 25 different mediation programs, including Family Mediation Services: Custody, Visitation and Support, Divorce, Parent Child and Elder Mediations.

     Other than our mediation services, The Peacemaker Program, Inc. also provides customized Conflict Resolution Trainings and Adventure Programs to Businesses, Corporations, Non-Profit, Adult and Youth Groups. Playing Peacemaker

     Playing Peacemaker^™ is a fund generating activity in which all proceeds from the sale of training programs and equipment goes directly to help support our various programs.

     In 2008 The Peacemaker Program, Inc. served almost 3,000 people in Oneida and Herkimer Counties, saving the tax payers over 1.1 million dollars.