Kevin Sean Casey This is Me

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1. 1. www.nwinstitute.com

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   Published on: 3/20/2003   Last Visited: 6/29/2004

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   NWI Staff - Kevin Sean Casey, J.D.
   
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   Kevin is a workshop presenter in the areas of conflict management, negotiation strategies, leadership skills and diversity training. Kevin also consults with companies through Northwest Institute to set up diversity training programs, conflict management programs and internal mediation programs.
   
   Kevin began his legal practice as an assistant city attorney in Pasadena, Texas, in 1987. In his position as city prosecutor he created and implemented the Pasadena Dispute Resolution Program, allowing the referral to mediation of appropriate cases by police officers and the municipal and justice courts. In 1991, he became the executive director of the Houston Dispute Resolution Center where he implemented its family mediation and litigation mediation programs. Kevin later became the executive director of the Austin Dispute Resolution Center. In 1997, Kevin was hired as a special hearings officer with the Texas Workforce Commission hearing appeals involving wage and benefits claims filed against employers. He later joined the Texas Department of Public Safety as an assistant general counsel. In 1999, he created and implemented a mediation program for workplace disputes. He is currently designing a pilot program to incorporate alternative dispute resolution (ADR) into Texas Highway Patrol operations in west Texas. In addition to overseeing the Department's dispute resolution program, as the Department's Employee Relations Officer, Kevin is also in charge of the agency's discrimination and sexual harassment complaint and investigation program.
   
   An active mediator since 1990, Kevin has mediated a wide variety of cases, including: community, gang, family, personal injury, contract, and employment disputes. An instructor in conflict management, negotiation, and mediation, Kevin provides training in both the private and public (local, state, and federal) sectors. As an adjunct professor, he teaches Negotiation Theory & Practice at the Graduate School of Management at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas.
   
   Kevin has also provided training for, among others, the Texas Department of Public Safety, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Texas Information Technology Academy, Texas District and County Attorney's Association, Texas Police Association, Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas, Lago Vista Police Department, Pasadena Police Department, Austin Fire Department, Travis County Juvenile Court and Probation Office, Houston Dispute Resolution Center, Kelly Air Force Base, and Lackland Air Force Base.
   
   In 1997, Kevin was a member of a conflict resolution delegation which traveled to China and met with government, university, school, industrial, and community leaders throughout the country.
   
   His basic and advanced mediation trainings have included the following: Dispute Resolution Center (DRC) 40-Hour Mediator Training Course, Houston, 1990; DRC 24-Hour Family Mediator Training Course, Houston, 1991; Attorney-Mediators Institute Mediator Training, 40 hours, Dallas, 1991; American Arbitration Association's Mediation Training, 16 hours, Houston, 1991; The Program for Community Problem Solving's 24-Hour Mediating Public Policy Disputes, Washington, D.C., 1993; DRC's Victim-Offender Mediation Training, 18 hours, Houston, 1993; Interest-Based Negotiation Course, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Ottawa, Canada, 2000. He has attended and spoken at numerous conferences, workshops, and seminars on conflict management, negotiation, and mediation.
   
   Kevin is a co-founder and advisory board member of the Texas Intergovernmental Shared Neutrals Program.

2. 2. adr0010 - Learning From the Leaders [Southern Visitor Gets a head Start for Conflict Resolution Program, Thanks to RCMP Experience]

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   Published on: 7/5/2000   Last Visited: 9/15/2004

   Last year when the Texas state legislature decreed that its Department of Public Safety would adopt an employee mediation program, Kevin S. Casey, a lawyer with the agency, was on the hook to deliver. With 10 years of experience working with families and communities to resolve disputes, Casey was in familiar territory. But when it came to a police organization like the Department of Public Safety, he knew he'd have to take a different approach.
   
   "I tried to find other US state police agencies that had a program like we wanted for employee-related disputes," explains Casey. "The best approach I found was in Canada, at the RCMP. This is the leader as far as I've seen."
   
   Spending five days in Ottawa this past May, Casey met with the RCMP's national ADR advisor, Jean-Claude Demers and several mediators like staff sergeants Ross Landry and Robert Codere.
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   Casey also had time to talk to Associate Ethics Advisor S/Sgt Bill Maxwell, Deborah Doherty of Learning and Development Branch, Sgt Jerry Mayo of the Musical Ride, and members of Community, Contract and Aboriginal Policing Services, Internal Affairs, and the Staff Relations Program, among others.
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   During his visit Casey also sat in on a three-day interest-based negotiation course and joined RCMP members in learning how to get below the surface of a dispute to what motivates those involved. Casey explained the technique this way, "If I have a coffee mug and you want it, we can fight over it, but maybe you're interested in what's inside the mug and I want the mug itself for my collection. In interest-based negotiations we get a better understanding of what the parties interests are -- instead of having them argue about their positions -- and work from there."
   
   The Texan lawyer adds, "It's remarkable that the RCMP has trained 15 per cent of its members in the interest-based negotiation model -- y'all have done a fantastic job."
   
   With three employee mediations already under his belt back home, Casey says he's on the right track and discussions with RCMP mediators have reinforced the direction of his work. "The nice thing will be to go back and share all of this," he says.
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   Heading home to Austin on the last day of his busy Canadian tour, Casey says he's been "incredibly impressed" with everything he's seen at the RCMP.
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   Kevin S. Casey is the conflict resolution co-ordinator and head of the department's Employee Relations Office.
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   Claire Couture, ADR co-ordinator for the National Capital Region and Kevin Casey, a member of the Texas Department of Public Safety, share lessons learned on a visit to help move the Lone Star State towards an employee mediation program like the RCMP's.