Community and Family

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania public school students have launched the "Safe to Count on Me Campaign." Their kickoff rally is scheduled for 3pm on April 25, 2012 at Norris Square Park...

Tamam Moncur, photo by Joe Epstein from The Star-LedgerSticking with the theme of anecdotes, here's one from last week's eForum article by IIRP graduate student Tamam Moncur about her...

Pennsylvania Approves 4-Day Institutes for Social Worker Continuing EdTwo Four Day Institutes – Basic Restorative Practices and Responding to Grief, Trauma & Adversity – have been...

Mark Finnis, of Hull Centre for Restorative Practice, an IIRP affiliateAccording to the netnewsledger.com, on March 26, 2012, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada hosted:

...a conference on...

"Nothing about me without me." —Children and families involved in the FGC/FGDM process.

This new book, published by the IIRP, was written by Beth Smull, Joshua Wachtel and Ted...

Jo Berry, from Lisa Rea interview at Restorative Justice OnlineJean Schmitz, director of IIRP Latin America, sent me a link to this piece he found at RJOnline (originally posted last...

Illustration of the CenterI've been saving this news for a rainy day, and here it is. This article, "Tribal Justice Center First of Its Kind" by Lisa Kopochinski for Correctional...

Restorative practices, well known in schools and the criminal justice field, is gaining ground in fields involving the family, higher...

Lady Gaga and Oprah During the BTWF LaunchAs reported in a post last month, SaferSanerSchools Instructor Lee Rush was invited along with 80 other national leaders to Harvard...

An upcoming issue of The Prevention Researcher will focus on Restorative Justice. They write:

It has been our observation that many people are still unfamiliar with restorative...

photo by AlecSchueler at Flickr Creative CommonsAn article from the Irish Times discusses the use of restorative justice as one solution to making an impact in terms of dealing with...

Here's a sneak peak, so to speak, of a forthcoming eForum article I've written about FaithCARE – Faith Communities Affirming Restorative Experience –  a project of Shalem Mental...

Aboriginal Children in a Canadian Residential SchoolFrom the 1870s to the 1990s, more than 150,000 First Nations, Métis and Inuit children were taken from their families and placed in...

"A Family Satisfied with FGDM, from the Famly Voices Video, a co-production of IIRP & American Humane"American Humane has announced its...

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Introduction

Reconciliation and Architectures of Commitment: Sequencing Peace in...

Representatives from the Flanker Peace and Justice Centre in Montego BayHere are links to two more articles from Jamaica regarding Restorative Justice Week (Feb. 5 - 11, 2012).

The...

MEREPS – Mediation and Restorative Justice in Prison Settings – was a three-year project funded by the EU.  According to the now freely available PDF Handbook on Using Restorative...

IIRP now has a brand new book, Building Campus Community: Restorative Practices in Residential Life. I co-wrote the book with Ted Wachtel, and the introductory chapter was co-written...

Last week I linked to a blog post by Photographer Matt Roth about City Springs Elementary/Middle School in Baltimore and their successful use of Restorative Practices for dealing with...

"We must also propose new ways of life... that means shifting from a punitive mindset to a restorative one."

I'm working on a new eForum article about a program called FaithCARE...