Restorative Practices: Promoting Peace and Community Following Harm
Objective
To prepare participants to use restorative practices to promote peace and build community following an offense that has caused harm to an individual and the community.
The workshop includes:
- Introduction to restorative justice principles;
- Facilitation skills instruction;
- How to conduct face-to-face meetings between victims, offenders, and support persons in order to facilitate restoration, healing, restitution, and reconciliation between the person who was harmed, the individual who harmed, and the community.
Participants will receive specific training to facilitate meetings between juveniles who have been arrested for delinquent acts, their families, and those whom the juveniles have harmed. The facilitated discussions are designed to encourage the youths to take responsibility for their actions, better understand how their actions impact others, give them the opportunity to make amends with those they have harmed and their community; and make positive changes in their lives.
Trainers
Randy Duque, MA, is the Managing Director of Good Shepherd Mediation Program. He is a mediator, trainer, facilitator, and conflict coach who holds a bachelor’s degree in Biological Anthropology and a master’s degree in Applied Communication and Conflict Processes, both from Temple University where he is also an adjunct faculty member for the Department of Psychological Studies. Duque has worked in and presented at national and international forums, such as in California, Ohio, Israel, the Philippines, and Guam. His professional memberships include: the Association for Conflict Resolution and ACR-Greater Delaware Valley Chapter Board Member, and the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation – Next Generation Member.
Adrian Sagan, the Restorative Justice Specialist at GSMP, has been involved in criminal justice field as a victim advocate, counselor, program coordinator and workshop facilitators. Adrian is a restorative justice facilitator for Pennsylvania’s Office of the Victim Advocate for cases of violent crime. Adrian holds a B.A. in Sociology and Human Services from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado and an M.S. in Criminal Justice from Saint Joseph University in Philadelphia, PA. He is currently working toward a Masters in Social Work at Bryn Mawr College (expected 2012).
