Application curriculum — not yet Florida Supreme Court certified.
This private course is staged for DRC review. It will not be offered or represented as an approved Course A program until written provider approval is received.
Course A Program Overview
A 16-hour live, instructor-led elder-mediation curriculum staged for Florida Supreme Court Dispute Resolution Center training-provider review under AOSC24-14. The program integrates elder-centered process design, ethics, screening and safety, legal and care contexts, family systems, accessibility, technology, agreements, knowledge assessment, and a required continuous multi-party role play.
Format and instructional time
- Live instructional time: 16 hours / 800 instructional minutes.
- Schedule: Two live days, 8:00 a.m.–3:50 p.m. Eastern, with breaks and meals excluded from instructional time.
- Delivery: Live communication technology, in person, or approved hybrid delivery.
- Maximum class size: 20 participants.
- Faculty: Guno O. Ritfeld, JD, LL.M., and approved ADR Academy faculty as assigned.
Core curriculum
- Eldercaring coordination and elder-mediation context; court referral pathways and confidentiality.
- Florida mediator ethics, self-determination, impartiality, competence, information boundaries, and process quality.
- Advance directives, powers of attorney, guardianship, surrogacy, capacity, and less-restrictive principles.
- Aging, cognition, disability access, communication accommodation, culture, family systems, and mediator bias.
- Intake, ongoing appropriateness screening, abuse, neglect, exploitation, intimate-partner violence, mandatory reporting, and safe termination.
- Multi-party process design, listening, conflict dynamics, resources, technology safeguards, options, and durable agreements.
- Guided demonstration, continuous multi-party role play, skills assessment, knowledge assessment, and remediation.
Completion requirements
- Full attendance for all 800 instructional minutes.
- Every required exercise and discussion.
- Continuous role-play participation from the mediator opening for at least 50 minutes.
- At least 80 percent on the knowledge assessment.
- Effective demonstration of basic elder-mediation skills.
- Completion of assigned remediation and final instructor approval.
Regulatory foundation
- Florida Supreme Court Administrative Order AOSC24-14 and incorporated Course A learning objectives.
- Rules for Certified and Court-Appointed Mediators 10.200–10.690.
- Florida Statutes Chapters 44, 415, 709, 744, and 765, as applicable to the training topics.
Course A must precede Course B, and both courses must be completed within one two-year period. Completion of Course A alone does not qualify or roster a participant as an eldercaring coordinator; judicial circuits determine qualifications and appointments.
ADR Academy Support
- Florida HQ: 121 South Orange Avenue, Suite 1500, Orlando, Florida 32801 — (407) 298-3751
- DC Metro (Principal): 3100 Clarendon Boulevard, Suite 200, Arlington, Virginia 22201 — (703) 584-5504
- Rhode Island: 10 Dorrance Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02903 — (703) 584-5504
- Toll-free: (866) 384-4563 — admin@adraceu.com — www.adraceu.com
