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Kate Shapero is a science teacher at The Miquon School, a private elementary school in Philadelphia. As a lifelong learner, Kate has been honing her restorative practices...
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Eric Rainey has over 25 years of experience in a variety of roles in the fields of education and childcare services, including graduation coach, classroom teacher...
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Instructor and Implementation Coach
Nikki Chamblee, Ph.D has been an educator for over 19 years. Currently she serves as an Instructor and Implementation Coach for the IIRP. In this...
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Class of 2013
Multi-System Therapy (MST) Supervisor
Allentown, Pennsylvania
Michelle Jarrouj-Weaver was working with delinquent and at-risk adolescents and wanted to further her career and enhance her practice. She felt instinctively that merely punishing young people wasn’t the way to help them change. “Instead of telling them they did wrong, you need to hear them out, let them think about what they did and learn from it.”
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Class of 2015
Pastor, Community Leader
Allentown, Pennsylvania
Tom Albright already had a master’s degree and a seminary ministry certificate when he read the IIRP Graduate School’s brochure. He thought their philosophy and goals might help him be more effective in his community. Now everything in his work and life is shaped by the principles of restorative practices.
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Class of 2017
Music Therapist — Prisons, Juvenile Detentions Centers & Orphanages
Trinidad & Tobago
Working in challenging settings in her home country of Trinidad & Tobago, Keisha Martinez needed to supplement her practice as a music therapist. Restorative practices have provided the missing piece, enabling her to effectively address the most difficult situations.
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Class of 2011
University of Pennsylvania Interfaith Fellow for Spirituality, Wellness and Social Justice
Nonprofit Founder & President
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Kameelah Rashad is working to bridge differences between people of diverse cultures as the Interfaith Fellow for Spirituality, Wellness and Social Justice at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Providing hope and courage to those on the front lines of change
Amidst great uncertainty and polarization, our students continue learning the knowledge and skills to bring people together and further develop the field of restorative practices.
IIRP students and alumni are engaging alienated young people, tackling racism and promoting educational equity and inclusion. They are helping vulnerable immigrant children, supporting prisoners reentering their communities, and developing new strategies for building strong relationships across colleges and universities.
We want to expand this positive impact to areas of the world that need it most. Our online graduate programs make it possible. IIRP students participate from their home communities, whether they’re in Vietnam, Canada, Latin America, San Francisco or Detroit.
Starting in 2023, we will be expanding our full-tuition Impact Scholarship program, awarding five additional scholarships each year that are focused on international candidates. This is a five-year commitment with a goal of awarding a total of twenty-five by 2027. Our intention is to make a graduate level education in restorative practices more accessible to more people from a variety of backgrounds. This effort will not only benefit the recipients and the communities they serve, but also benefits our entire IIRP learning community by infusing new, diverse perspectives into the student body.
We need your help to continue this vital work.
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Black Family Development, Inc. (USA)
Black Family Development, Inc. (BFDI) is a private, non-profit comprehensive family counseling agency that was created in 1978 by the Detroit Chapter of the National Association of Black Social Workers (NABSW). By establishing BFDI as a family counseling agency, NABSW sought to promote and provide quality social work services in Detroit that were culturally relevant and culturally sensitive.
CASEL - Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (USA)
Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) is the nation’s leading organization advancing the development of academic, social and emotional competence for all students. Our mission is to help make evidence-based social and emotional learning (SEL) an integral part of education from preschool through high school.
Designed Learning
Designed Learning is a Peter Block company focused on providing learning experiences which affirm the belief that connections between people sustain our humanity and are central to the success of every organization. They support persons and organizations in their search to create meaningful contributions at work and in the world. They co-create conversational spaces with both clients and suppliers to generate greater possibilities for connectedness, relatedness and positive impact.
Eigen Kracht (Netherlands)
Eigen Kracht is a non-governmental social service agency in Amsterdam, Netherlands. They strive for a society based on participation and mutual self reliance of citizens, where citizens remain in charge of their own life, especially when dealing with organizations and government bodies.
LCCS (Singapore)
Lutheran Community Care Services Ltd (LCCS) is a non-government agency established in 2002. Believing that relationships are key for one’s well-being, LCCS engages individuals and families to build connected communities and strengthen and restore relationships through restorative conversations. LCCS works with a wide range of stakeholders, including the schools, institutions (residential homes and prisons), state courts and the child protection system to address issues of harm and hurt as well as foster healthy relationships for support and growth. Through research, application and training, LCCS aspires to contribute to the growth of practice and knowledge in restorative practices.
Ligand (Belgium)
Ligand began in 1975 with Oranjehuis, a residential group home for young people in trouble with the law who were referred by the court. Over the years, the focus at Oranjehuis shifted from reactive to proactive and preventive strategies, including restorative circles to build relationships. They now work in a broader context with families. Originally, young people lived in the group home fulltime. To incorporate more family engagement, youth now live at Oranjehuis two-to-three days a week and at home for the rest of the week.
National Association of Community and Restorative Justice (USA)
The National Association of Community and Restorative Justice (NACRJ) is a non-profit membership association of citizens, practitioners, educators, and researchers who are interested in the use of community justice and restorative justice practices to build trust and strengthen communities as well as address conflicts, harm and crime in meaningful, effective and sustainable ways that reduce future harms. NACRJ is dedicated to the development of safe, just and equitable communities through widespread implementation of these practices, public policy advocacy, training, education and research.
SynRJ (United Kingdom)
The team at SynRJ have a long and distinguished track record in restorative justice and practices, education, residential care, personal and community safety, policing, crime reduction and criminal justice.
True Dialogue (Canada)
True Dialogue is a training and consulting company based in St. Paul, Alberta, Canada. True Dialogue offers workplace and family mediation services, writing of pre-sentence (Gladue) reports, Peacemaking Circles and Family Group Conference training, Restorative Resolution services and community conference facilitation for students experiencing learning engagement and absenteeism issues.
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Download the 2022-2023 IIRP Factbook
The students that come to the IIRP Graduate School are:
- motivated by a sense of justice to create a more fair and participatory world.
- determined to learn how to manage conflict and foster respect and empathy.
- eager to engage individuals to have voice in decisions that impact them.
- hungry to foster responsibility and learn how to hold people accountable for their actions.
Enrollment
Enrollment growth reflects the widening recognition of the effectiveness and applicability of restorative practices in a wide range of areas, from education and justice to social work and organizational leadership.
Academic Year 2022-2023
- Total enrollment: 442
- Master of Science graduates: 37
- Graduate Certificates recipients: 28
Non-Credit Programs
In 2022-2023, the IIRP served adult learners in forty-nine U.S. states & Washington, D.C., eight Canadian provinces, and twenty-six other countries.
Restorative Works Year in Review 2023 (PDF)
All our donors are acknowledged annually in Restorative Works.