Restorative Justice Project

Restorative Justice

• builds community by providing a constructive framework to guide our responses to crime, conflict, offensive behavior, violations and injustices
• is needed in our homes, schools, workplaces, churches and criminal justice system
• values all people
• seeks to repair damages, (re) establish dignity, and (re) integrate all who were harmed and alienated

The Restorative Justice Initiative in Fresno County has its own site

Training Opportunities

VORP Organizing Institute
Held each April

Restorative Justice Implementation

• Restorative Justice: A Framework for Fresno.

  Several years ago a group of community leaders came together to discuss the idea of developing a Framework for Restorative Justice. A drafting committee carried their ideas forward, resulting in the Restorative Justice Framework for Fresno County. The public comment draft was published in September 2000, and the final draft is offered here.

• Restorative Justice Assessment Instrument

  This PDF document will help you assess the extent to which restorative justice principles are at work in your organization.

• Restorative Justice Framework Endorsement

  Organizations which have decided to adopt the RJ Framework can use this form to give their endorsement. Please send us the completed form.

• Fresno Framework Progress Report 2001

• Position Paper on Restorative Justice

  From the Chief Probation Officers of California. Dated September 11, 2000.

• California Judicial Council report "A Summary of the Evaluations of Six California Victim Offender Reconciliation Programs"

• Balanced and Restorative Justice: an Information Manual for California from the Administrative Office of the Courts (2006). To order print copies: Contact Ethel Mays, AOC Center for Families, Children & the Courts, 415-865-7579, ethel.mays@jud.ca.gov.

• "Public Opinion On Implementing Restorative Justice Principles In Fresno, California," executive summary of research by Jill Schellenberg

• Victim Offender Reconciliation Program of the Central Valley statistics

What is Restorative Justice?

About the Restorative Justice Project

Services of the Restorative Justice Project

Contact RJP by email.