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Below is a directory of practitioners and organizations who facilitate or engage with restorative justice. If you are a restorative justice practitioner and would like to be listed in this directory, please complete the form below.
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disclaimer
The individuals and organizartions listed in this directory are not employees or contractors of the Detroit Justice Center (DJC) and do not work on behalf of the Metro Detroit Restorative Justice Network (MDRJN). In addition, practitioners are not paid by DJC or the MDRJN in any way to provide services. This directory is provided as a public resource only. As such, the Detroit Justice Center is not liable for the actions of those listed.
*Individual practitioners and organizations typically charge a rate for their services. Please contact them directly to learn more.*
Detroit safety team
Description: The Detroit Safety Team (DST) is a Detroit-focused organization dedicated to assisting communities in building a new safety infrastructure that shifts away from police reliance. We use responsive measures that allow those who have harmed, and those who have been harmed to work through conflict together through our restorative circle practices. We engage Detroiters with tools and trainings in proven safety methods. We transform communities by moving to a non-punitive safety response that changes our relationship with harm, abuse, and conflict to one that allows for healing and refuses violence.
Specialization: Detroiters, BIPOC, LGBTQ+
Contact: curtisr@redefinesafety.org
Website: https://www.redefinesafety.org
The RJ Collaborative @ the Dispute Resolution Center
Description: We formally came together to build a collaborative, taking our experience as circle keepers, peacemakers, trauma-informed conflict resolution workers, mediators, and leaders to begin educating both young people and adults in our community about the necessity of holistic, restorative work to build communities of trust, care and move toward justice.
Specialization: Members of our collaborative have different specialties, including school-based restorative work, youth-led restorative work, peacemaking court and restorative work in the criminal justice realm and trauma-informed approaches to restorative work.
Years of Experience: Collectively, we have over 50 years of experience facilitating circles. Individually, we range from 5-20 years of experience.
Contact: Lauren Fardig-Diop - msfardig@gmail.com
taproot sanctuary
Description: Taproot Sanctuary is focused on living in right relationship with ourselves, the earth, and our neighbors. We work to create a more just and compassionate world.
Specialization: Community, neighborhood, activists, BIPOC, Detroiters.
Years of Experience: 13
Contact: taproot.sanctuary@gmail.com
Website: taprootsanctuary.org
Transformative Engagement Solutions
Description: Provides training, coaching and consulting to help organizations move to a restorative, wholly human, and equitable culture of Belonging and engagement.
Specialization: Schools and organizations.
Years of Experience: 21
Contact: wboyler@gmail.com
The School of Radical Healing
Description: SORH's mission is to equip BIPOC individuals from all around the world with the knowledge and tools necessary to promote self-regulation and trauma recovery. We do this through somatic practices, love, and language. We recognize the individual’s self-preservation as the collective’s preservation. Where we choose to practice the art of Love, peace, harmony, justice, and equality through mindfulness & self-discovery.
Specialization: BIPOC
Contact: Adria Moses, info@schoolofradicalhealing.com
Website: www.schoolofradicalhealing.com
Social: @theschoolofradicalhealing
practitioners
barbara l. jones, ma
Description: The mission of the Center for Peace & Conflict Studies is to develop and implement projects, programs, curricula, research and publications in areas of scholarship related to international and domestic peace, war, social justice, arms control, globalization, multicultural awareness and constructive conflict resolution. The Center for Peace & Conflict Studies addresses this mission in three ways. CPCS supports undergraduate and graduate student excellence through its academic programs. CPCS staff and students engage in scholarly research initiatives on aspects of domestic and international conflict management. CPCS provides community outreach programs that emphasize: conflict resolution, development of intercultural understanding, and enhance local knowledge of global affairs.
Specialization: K-12 School Districts, Youth, BIPOC, Disability, Intergenerational, LGBTQ+, City vs. Suburbs and Rural, Campus Community Residential Housing, Gender
Years of Experience: 16
Contact: barbaraljones@wayne.edu
Isha Bhatt
Description: Isha has nine years of experience in conflict resolution practice and training, specifically, Restorative Practices. She strives to foster spaces where individuals feel a sense of belonging to reflect on harm. Isha has facilitated numerous community circles in schools and organizations with youth and adults. The circles are focused on healing and resolution for various concerns such as cultural issues, social conflict, race/ethnicity, and gender identity. As a leader, she aligns with restorative processes to promote a healthy work environment. Her mission is to promote equity for all those impacted by social injustice. In particular, Isha endeavors to help dismantle barriers caused by systemic racism and misogyny within education.
Specialization: Youth, criminal justice system and organizations.
Years of Experience: 10
Contact: ishajbhatt@gmail.com
Rumsha Sajid
Description: I primarily come from a youth development background and am trained in conflict mediation and restorative justice. I've worked with individuals experiencing conflict living in co-ops, community land trusts, and Black and brown youth in after school programs. I believe conflict can be a generative force in deepening connection to ourselves and/or others. Black feminist and abolitionist frameworks are my intellectual guides in this work.
Specialization: BIPOC, LGBTQ+, youth ages 12-24.
Years of Experience: 5
Contact: rumsha.sajid@gmail.com
greta mchaney-trice - it takes a village ed, consulting llc
Description: It Takes A Village contracts with schools, governments, businesses, groups and individuals to perform restorative practices around conflict resolution, community building, healing circles. There are training, seminars, workshops opportunities to train in Restorative Justice particularly around social justice, diversity and equity issues for both large and smaller entities.
Specialization: Schools, youth, incarceration/criminal justice, community issues, training and faciliation.
Years of Experience: Over 14 years. I have been working in jails providing inmates with restorative justice skills and training since 2016.
Contact: mchaneyt@yahoo.com
Dominique Crump, MSW
Description: Dominique Crump is a Master of Social Work who received specialized training in working with children and adolescents, Black Americans, and individuals working through substance use and opioid use disorders through her masters in social work program, primarily focused on interpersonal practice. She also has received a breadth of educational and experiential opportunities in the field as a social worker and in her previous careers as a teacher and recruiter. Dominique takes an empowerment approach in her practice, seeing the best in those with whom she works. Through compassion and empathy, she guides them by capitalizing on their strengths. Dominique is passionate about proactive approaches, stating, “I am a strong believer in the fact that there are things that we can prepare for because we know what type of society in which we live. Our society is anti-Black, anti-fem, anti-anything that deviates from the white cis-het man and his desires. Therefore, everything we do must be mindful of these truths - and in complete opposition of them. Also, my practice is centered on healing and holistic care: No one should feel like they are simply the worst thing that has ever happened to them."
Specialization: College students/transitional age youth, BIPOC, women, fraternities and sororities.
Years of Experience: 10 years.
Contact: 313-310-1810
Kendra Svilar, Restore Resolutions, LLC
Description: Restore facilitates restorative outcomes to conflict, including sex and gender-based harm, race, national origin, veteran status, weight-based, and disability-based discrimination for any institution. Restore can facilitate a process instead of or after an investigation, hearing, or after a settled outcome. Harm can be delivered by individuals operating within systems that cause harm. Healing can begin within individual relationships and communities when the harm each participant holds is acknowledged. For the last few decades, I have held various positions at small, medium, and large-sized public and private institutions. I have been a Civil Rights Investigator, Director of Student Conduct & Community Standards, Deputy Title IX Coordinator, and Title IX, Coordinator. I have also been an assistant prosecuting attorney assigned to the domestic violence unit and the juvenile division. Now, I'm an independent consultant with Restore Resolutions, LLC, and the Center for Education Equity as a restorative justice facilitator and a civil rights investigator.
Years of Experience: 6 years.
Contact: ksvilar@restorerjs.com
Website: restorerjs.com
The MDRJN is looking for new members!
We seek members with experience in community organizing and restorative practices/community mediation or conflict resolution to support our work across community-based training, legislation advocacy, and community-driven research.
Applications are open now!