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TAM
invites you to become more involved. Below is
a list of Committees, Committee Chairs (phone
numbers and email addresses of current board
members are located in the About TAM section
of this website.  ),
and the Purpose of each committee. Please help
keep TAM the vibrant and effective organization
that it already is by sharing your talents on
one of the following committees!
BOARD COMMITTEES OPEN TO THE MEMBERSHIP
2009 Conference to be held in Dallas
- (Melanie Grimes, Doug Skierski) - Responsibilities:
To plan and make all arrangements for the TAM Annual
Conference.
2010 Conference to be held in Austin
- (Toylaine Spencer and Tracy Watson) - Responsibilities:
To plan and make all arrangements for the TAM Annual
Conference.
Membership - (Cris Gilbert & Suzanne Duvall)
- Responsibilities: To communicate with members, to
process membership applications and suggest ways to
continue to improve the benefits TAM has to offer
to its members, thereby encouraging the TAM membership
to grow.
Newsletter/Editorial Board - (Jan Berger, Editor,
Josefina Rendon, Z. Lewis, & Meg Walker) - Responsibilities:
To manage the publication of a high-quality quarterly
newsletter with a variety of topics which will be
of interest to TAM members and to develop editorial
policy for the newsletter.
Case Book/Form Book - (Doug Skierski and Austin
O'Toole) - Responsibilities: To update the materials
for an electronic database containing cases relevant
to mediation and forms used by mediators.
Public Awareness and Education - (Open) - Responsibilities:
To develop short and long-term objectives for TAM's
efforts to increase the use of mediation by the public
and to implement pilot projects and other efforts
consistent with the objectives.
Bilingual Mediation Issues - (Clara Gomez &
David Garza) - Responsibilities: To increase the use
of mediation within the rapidly growing Hispanic population
in Texas. In 2002-3, this committee collected information
from all the DRCs in Texas about bilingual mediations
and developed a bilingual brochure that explains mediation
in English and Spanish.
Legislation and Public Policy - (Tracy Watson)
- Responsibilities: To monitor legislation related
to mediation.
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