paxUnited is a for- benefit (non-profit) prevention organization which provides comprehensive violence-reduction programs to schools, parents and community-based organizations. The core program, Peers Making Peace©, offers elementary, middle and high school students training in conflict resolution and mediation. Under faculty supervision, these skilled student mediators provide positive, non-violent conflict resolution strategies to their peers through communication skill-building, problem solving and mediation.

paxUnited's award-winning Peers Making Peace program has received designation as a Model Program by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention for excellence in violence reduction among our youth. Our campus- and community-based conflict mediation programs support over 5000 schools and organizations in 28 states.

Our Goal... to promote positive solutions to conflict in our schools and communities. We do it!

paxUnited provides...

• Training for Educators to implement campus–based conflict mediation programs at all grade levels.
• Strategies to reduce violence and improve the learning environment.
• Support to schools, parents and community agencies.

paxUnited is...

• Winner of a USDOE "Promising Programs for Safe, Disciplined and Drug-Free Schools" award.
• Recipient of the CSAP Exemplary Substance Abuse Prevention Award.
• Recognized as a model program by the Office for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP).
• The first and only peer mediation program to have received this award, and the first and only peer mediation/conflict resolution program to be recognized by he U.S. Department of Education, CSAP and OJJDP.
• Research–based, Educator–created.

Our award-winning programs are proven effective for schools, institutions and community-based agencies.