Empowering Kids to Thoughtfully Communicate and Manage Conflict
Who We Are
About Conflict Resolution for Kids
Conflict Resolution for Kids (CRK) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping children, families, and educators build lifelong skills for healthy communication and thoughtful decision making.
Our work brings together the structure of mediation, the creativity of education, and insights from child development to create tools children actually enjoy using.
We are also expanding and evolving traditional mediation frameworks, reimagining how communication and option generation can be taught through simple, practical, and universally applicable tools.
Learning mediation skills means learning how to have thoughtful conversations, understand different perspectives, and recognize how choices are made and what makes a choice wise. Students learn to integrate emotion, communication, reasoning, and logic in real time.
This interdisciplinary approach blends principles from law, psychology, education, and communication into a practical skill set children can use every day.
Through stories, games, creative activities, and reflection, children learn to:
• communicate clearly
• manage emotions
• navigate challenges
• make thoughtful, informed, and inclusive decisions
We are giving children the best of what we teach adults, adapted for their stage of growth and understanding.
Our Approach
Conflict Resolution for Kids helps children build lifelong skills in empathy, communication, and constructive problem solving.
Rooted in research-based conflict resolution, mediation, and restorative practices, CRK turns complex concepts into experiences that are meaningful and fun. We meet children where they are and guide them to explore how people communicate through stories, creative projects, games, and reflection. Along the way, students build confidence, connection, and a sense of belonging.
Using signature frameworks such as The Four Corners of Communication, The Choice Map, and The Simple Mediation Model, students identify the issues that matter most to them and design their own tools and solutions. These become resources built for students, by students.
Each program gives schools valuable insight into patterns of conflict on their campuses and leaves educators with practical, student-centered tools to address them.
CRK also offers training for adults including educators, counselors, administrators, and parents who want to strengthen their own communication and problem solving skills and create more connected classrooms, homes, and communities.
Through stories, creativity, and collaboration, children learn to understand challenges, set goals, and explore options together. What began as a classroom initiative has grown into a movement to make thoughtful problem solving part of everyday learning and life.
Our Mission and Offerings
To give children, educators, and families practical, developmentally grounded tools to handle conflict, express needs, and build relationships rooted in respect and understanding.
We believe conflict is not something to fear or avoid. It is an opportunity for learning. With the right support, children can transform everyday disagreements into moments of growth, empathy, and connection.
As our work grows, Conflict Resolution for Kids also studies the kinds of problems children face at different ages, how those challenges change over time, and how children choose to solve them. This evolving understanding helps us anticipate children’s needs and highlight the creative, compassionate ways they navigate conflict when given the right support.
Our offerings include school partnerships, student programming, professional development courses, and parent/provider workshops. Whether working directly with students in classrooms, training educators to integrate these tools into daily practice, or helping parents use the same approaches at home, our goal is to make thoughtful problem-solving a shared language across the environments where children grow.
Join Us
Conflict Resolution for Kids is more than a program — it’s a growing community of families, educators, and partners who believe in teaching communication as a life skill.
Your support helps us:
- Bring programming to schools
- Develop new digital tools and courses
- Train educators, parents and counselors across the region