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Links to Restorative Justice Organizations



Consult Justice Fellowship's Restorative Justice Resource Guide for a more exhaustive list of organizations involved with restorative justice.

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Restorative Justice Online
Provides the latest news and an extensive library of publications on restorative justice.

Prison Fellowship International Centre for Justice and Reconciliation
Works to develop and promote restorative justice practice around the world through education and initiatives.

Just Alternatives:  Promising Practices in Justice and Corrections
Focuses on victim restoration and offender accountability through training, counseling, and mediation.

Restore Justice.Com
Offers healing and support to everyone affected by the criminal justice system

Justice and Mercy
Seeks to decrease the effects of crime in communities through educating and informating the public at large and advocating for practical reforms in the criminal justice system.

Deschutes County Government Juvenile Community Justice Department
Employs practices to establish balanced and restorative justice through creating community protection and offender accoutability.

Pennsylvania Prison Society
Advocates on behalf of prisoners, foremrly incarcerated individuals, and their families and offers direct services and official prison visitation.

Sycamore Tree Project
Brings victims into prisons to meet with "unrelated" offenders to  discuss issues related to crime and its consequences.

Victim Offender Mediation Association
Supports and assists people and communities with models of restorative justice through resources, technical assistance in victim-offender mediation, conferencing, and training.

Victim-Offender Reconciliation Program Information and Resource Center
Provides articles, education, services, and training to facilitate victim-offender mediation and reconciliation.

The National Center for Victims of Crime
Gives voice to victims needs through resources and advocacy.

InnerChange Freedom Initiative
Supports inmates through their spiritual and moral transformation while promoting the importance of restorative justice.

Center for Community Corrections
Promotes the benefits of community-based sanctions to address the problems of recidivism and risks to public safety.

National Neighborhood Watch Institute
Supplies crime prevention materials to aid in the reduction of criminal activity both domestically and internationally.

Community Policing
Identifies the problems of crime and disorder and involves all elements of the community with police efforts in the search for solutions.

Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution
Promotes and provides education and comprehensive approaches to dispute resolution that constructively serve the needs of the community.

Center for Court Innovation
Helps courts and criminal justice agencies aid victims, reduce crime, and improve public trust in justice.

Youth Accountability Boards
A model program created to help juveniles to have committed their first criminal offense to receive suitable intervention in the hopes of curbing future criminal behavior.

Mentor Kids USA
Serves at-risk youth, specifically targeting youth between the ages of 5-18 who have an incarcerated parent, come from a single-parent household, have drug or alcohol problms, have been physically or sexually abused, have significant school problems, or live in poverty.

Discipline that Restores
Seeks to develop and unite the principles of restorative justice in disciplinary methods.