Susan NorthSusan North has been working with children and their families since completing UC Berkeley's Early Childhood Education program in 1971. Her professional experience includes teaching and administration for Head Start, running parent/toddler programs, nd directing full-day preschools. She was a Master Teacher with LA Unified's Parent Education Division. More recently, Susie became trained in mediation and facilitation through the L.A. City Attorney's Office Dispute Resolution Program, Ken Cloke's Center for Dispute Resolution, and Centinela Youth Services. She opened her mediation practice in 2007 and now divides her time doing conflict resolution, parent education, parent coaching, blogging, teaching school-age kids to be peer mediators, and volunteering with Southern California Family Mediation in the Child Dependency Courts. Read More Read Less