Practitioners on school and college-based Behavioral Intervention Teams (BITs) sit at the nexus of care, conduct, safety, and support. These teams are tasked with preventing harm, responding to ...

Author, professor and trailblazing activist Bell Hooks once said: "To build community requires vigilant awareness … rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of community." ...

Open, vulnerable, listening and connection. These are the words that come to mind when senior Sophia Christodoulou, co-president of The Petey Greene Program at Tufts, thinks of a restorative practice ...

There’s a familiar, frustrating tension between practice and policy. When it comes to grading, devices, equity, choice, student behavior, and much else, there are yawning gaps between the views from ...

Restorative mindset therapy is committed in recognizing the uniqueness of individuals and their thinking patterns therefore, offering integrative therapy modalities that are personally hand picked and ...

Everyone deserves to feel heard, validated, supported, and cared for. You are not alone, and there is someone who wants to listen to your story. I strive to provide a safe, nonjudgmental space where ...

Seated from left: Roy Jenkins, Charles Beekman, Sheleah Ford and Aaron Giumarra, are four of the district’s 11 specialists who use restorative justice approaches in their work. Standing is Angela ...

Kendall Hughes was stabbed 12 times in the head, neck and back by a prisoner in a chapel while working as a Colorado prison system chaplain in 2002. A trauma surgeon told him the man had just missed ...

Author, professor, and trailblazing activist bell hooks once said: “To build community requires vigilant awareness… rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of community.” ...

One example of a restorative justice program in the county is Teen Court. The idea for Teen Court came about in 1999 after the Vernon County Partnership Council discussed the results of a teen ...