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Restorative Justice Training
True Dialogue delivers certificate training in restorative justice relevant to restorative justice committees and programs (youth and adult), community leadership, and referral authorities: police, crown prosecutors, and schools.
Building Community with Restorative Justice
A facilitator's role is to empower the primary involved parties to resolve an incident of harm, that attends to their wellbeing, and addresses the underlying issues for their benefit and the communities: public safety, violence and crime reduction.
Restorative justice is a philosophy that views crime, conflict, and wrongdoing principally as harm done to people and relationships. It offers a non-adversarial, non-retributive approach, focusing on meaningful accountability and reparation of harm to address the needs of the person harmed (victim), the person responsible (offender), and the community. The process aims to restore healthy relationships within the family and community, offering an effective crime reduction strategy.
Participants will learn how to prepare parties and facilitate culturally relevant restorative processes (victim-offender dialogue, healing circles, peacemaking or sentencing circles, community conferencing), how to draft resolution summaries or agreements, and customize consent to participate forms (youth and adult, pre and post charge). Explore the different ways referral authorities can be involved, and community support. How to engage the primary parties involved in making process-related decisions to ensure they feel empowered and safe. Understand follow-up activities until file closure.
Restorative justice principles are universal (fairness, equity, empowerment, self-determination). Workshops are available for organizations interested in learning how community values can frame policy and guide practice when addressing conflict and misconduct to restore peace within the community, benefiting employee wellness, productivity, and healthy workplace environments.
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​Family Group Conferencing
By having family and kin-like family come together, we can find creative solutions.
Learn how to authentically engage families in planning for the safety and care of at-risk children and youth. Training is relevant to Child and Family Service Agencies, restorative justice facilitators, and Elders. Restorative leadership training is provided to facilitate desired systems change.
If the goal is crime reduction, and if family is the basic unit of society, then honouring Indigenous ways of knowing to frame practice and promote family healing and reconciliation is necessary to improve the social determinants of health and foster good citizenship.
FAMILY GROUP CONFERENCING
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The goals of a family group conference are as follows:
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Ensure children and youth have agency in decision-making about their care and well-being.
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Provide families with culturally relevant services to promote healing and begin their recovery journey to stop the cycle of violence connected to the experience of unresolved inter-generational trauma.
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Ensure children are connected to their family, culture, and community.
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Develop safety and family support plans to prevent apprehension or return a child to their family's care.
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Develop concurrent permanency plans, prevent foster or kinship care drift.
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