Lipscomb University’s Institute for Conflict Management celebrated their fifth anniversary on Jan. 24 at the Hutton Hotel.
The evening featured speakers including 2011 CNM scholarship winner Kate Payne, director of ethics and palliative care at Saint Thomas Hospital.
The certificate in conflict management is a 15-hour graduate program (worth approximately $16,000) that can be applied toward a master’s degree or earned on its own, and can be completed in as little as six months. The scholarship is available to CNM members.
Earlier this month, CNM and Lipscomb’s Institute for Conflict Management announced the 2012 scholarship winners: Brian Bailey, who works with the homeless through the Park Center, and Shanda Hampton, director of human resources at the Oasis Center, have been awarded full tuition for a graduate certificate in conflict management at Lipscomb University.
“This partnership with the CNM allows us to advance conflict management skills within a job market where such skills are critically needed – the nonprofit sector,” said Steve Joiner, managing director for the ICM said in a release. “Every day workers in nonprofit organizations deal with people in distress and under great pressure. A working knowledge of conflict management techniques can only help further the goal of local charities and service organizations even more effectively.”
Bailey is the Outreach Safe Haven case manager at Park Center, a service provider for the homeless and those with severe mental illness. He works to build relationships with homeless individuals, to assess their needs and to provide life skills leadership to individuals living in transitional housing.
Prior to Park Center, Bailey worked at Youth Villages in Nashville and Prestera Center, in Huntington, W.V. He is a graduate of Marshall University.
Hampton is the director of human resources at the Oasis Center, a service and housing program for at-risk youth. Hampton has been with Oasis since 1998, starting as residential counselor and moving up to house manager and shelter coordinator. She became the director of human resources in 2009.
Hampton is a graduate of Western Kentucky University. She has worked as a volunteer with Hands On Nashville, Safe Place, Head Start and the Suicide Prevention Coalition.
“We are grateful to the institute and to Lipscomb University for making these opportunities available. Nonprofit leaders spend much of their time dealing with conflict; this post-graduate training is enabling a cadre of our leaders to be proficient in overcoming conflict as they provide their community services,” said CNM President Lewis Lavine.



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