Training and Program Development Resources

Alaska-based RJ facilitator training

RuralCAP’s Alaska Circle Keeper Training
“The goal of this training is to provide a three-day interactive and informational presentation on Circle Peacemaking. The training will familiarize participants with the role of Circle Keeper – the facilitation of Talking Circles with the purpose of creating an environment and the opportunity to discuss important and sometimes difficult things in a good way. Participants will learn and share the intentions, philosophies, and styles of different approaches to using a Circle for restorative practices in two tracks: tribal courts and tribal youth programs.”

Circle Alaska Consulting: Circle keeper training with Curt Shuey.
circlealaska@gmail.com; (907) 252-5660

 

Toolkits and guides for setting up an RJ program

Alaska Tribal Justice Resource Center Circle Peacemaking Resources
Codes, handbooks, and other resources from existing Alaska RJ programs (Organized Village of Kake Circle Peacemaking and the Kenaitze Indian Tribe Circles).

Restorative Justice Diversion Toolkit
“The toolkit provides our first phase of technical assistance and prepares sites to begin receiving a suite of trainings and support from us. Once trained, sites are ready to launch their own diversion programs. This toolkit was primarily created for community-based organizations interested in starting a restorative justice diversion program for youth in their county.”

Using Restorative Approaches to Address Intimate Partner Violence: A New York City Blueprint
“This report, published by the New York City Mayor's Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence, outlines pathways for developing restorative and community-based approaches to intimate partner violence.”

European Forum for Restorative Justice Manuals and Guidelines
A variety of manuals for implementing restorative justice programs, some for specific types of crimes such as cases involving child victims, road traffic offenses, etc.

Creative Interventions Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Stop Interpersonal Violence
“This Toolkit is meant for anyone interested in using a community-based approach to address, reduce, end or prevent violence (what we call an intervention). Unlike most violence-related resources, it does not assume that those intervening in violence must be trained professionals. It sees any and all of us involved in or affected by violence in our personal lives as potential actors in the solutions to violence.”

Community Accountability for Survivors of Sexual Violence Toolkit
“In this toolkit we provide: An overview of the Community Accountability for Survivors of Sexual Violence reading group, including background information and lessons learned.”

Leuven Institute of Criminology - Doing restorative justice in cases of sexual violence: A practice guide
“The two principal authors of this guide are RJ practitioners in Western European countries, who have undertaken RJ in cases of SV between adolescents and adults, where there is an ongoing familial relationship or where the parties are strangers to each other, in cases within or outside of the criminal justice system, and in cases where the offender has been incarcerated. Restorative models such as mediation, conferencing and family group meetings have all been used.”

Interrupting Intimate Partner Violence: A Guide for Community Responses without Police
“The purpose of this guide is to present organizers, IPV providers, advocates, policymakers, community members, and families with practical, safe considerations and tools to create a community first response for IPV that is not based in the punitive U.S. carceral system.”

Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators
“Fumbling Toward Repair is a workbook by Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan that includes reflection questions, skill assessments, facilitation tips, helpful definitions, activities, and hard-learned lessons intended to support people who have taken on the coordination and facilitation of formal community accountability processes to address interpersonal harm & violence.”