Restorative Justice & Peacemaking Circles
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Offering you 5 ways Restorative Justice paved the way for trauma-informed work in schools: Victim-Centered. Restorative Justice gives voice, choice, validation, information and opportunity for reparation to those harmed by crime & conflict. This created a trauma-informed skill-set in practitioners. Research have shown the RJ reduces PTSD for Crime victims. This demonstrates the approach reduces…
St. Croix Valley Restorative Justice Program (www.scvrjp.org) has been doing 100’s of Circles a year, since 2006. In that time we have successfully placed topics in the center of the Circle. We have consistently used a structure, based on the work of Kay Pranis (more posts referencing Kay). The key elements of a Restorative Justice…
My friend wanted to have a birthday around her bucket list item of getting on a mechanical bull. So I helped by making a flyer, and rodeo numbers for party guests. As the day approached, I teased someone I was gonna have “Happy Birthday” on my bloomers, so when I fell off the bull that…
Developing the skill set for working with storytellers is one of the most crucial building blocks for developing a successful Restorative Justice program. Stories are a key element in Restorative Justice Circles. Having powerful storytellers . . . common everyday people who have experienced a trauma and have the ability to share that story in…
It has been an emotional and powerful season of work. A group of practitioners met to begin a deeper look at healing not only the incident of harm, but deeper wounds and trauma when additional deeper harm is present. That means looking at differences in race, power, gender, any status differences between people participating. Not…
I just opened a gift from a Restorative Justice volunteer. SCVRJP has a new wall hanging. It was less than a week ago SCVRJP gifted (gave away) a wall hanging. Interconnectedness of giving and receiving. Restorative Justice includes and survives by this web of interconnectedness, where we offer and accept with grace. The community creates spaces for…