Lois Crane, M. A., a former school psychologist, has been a mediator and mediation trainer for 19 years.  She was the first director of the Johnson County Small Claims Court Mediation Project, and mediated for that program and the Sixth Judicial District Divorce and Family Mediation Program.  

She initiated Small Claims Court Mediation Programs in four southeast Iowa counties, Henry, Des Moines, Jefferson, and Washington; and trained the volunteer mediators who staff those programs.  She has trained school faculties and students in peer mediation; and has taught a one-hour graduate credit course in conflict resolution for Area Education Agencies.

Lois provides divorce mediation in the Eighth Judicial District and volunteers in the Henry County Small Claims Court Mediation Program.   

M.A., University of Iowa, School Psychology, 1971

BASIC MEDIATION TRAINING:

Conflict Manager Institute, Community Board, Inc., San Francisco, 1989, 32 hours, Gail Sadalla, Jim Hallagan
Advanced Institute in Conflict Resolution, Community Board, Inc., San Francisco, 1989, 24 hours, staff
National Association for Mediation in Education Advanced Professional Development in Conflict Resolution Skills, Hyannis, Massachusetts, 1991, 24 hours, staff

DIVORCE AND FAMILY MEDIATION TRAINING:
Divorce and Family Mediation Training, CDR Associates, Boulder, Colorado, 1993, 40 hours, Bernard Mayer, Judy Mares-Dixon, Christine Coates
Basic/Advanced Divorce Mediation Skills, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 1995, 40 hours, Anne Milne, Peter Salem
Divorce Mediation, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, 2001, 40 hours, Steve Sovern.