RJP Featured in "Stories from salinas"

Members of Restorative Justice Partners program for schools teamed with the Alisal school district to work with the students interested in learning about restorative justice.  To read the whole article, CLICK HERE.  And you can watch the movie on this page as well. 
It’s 12:30 on a Wednesday afternoon and Alejandra Hinojosa and Rosario Serrano pull on bright orange vests and head onto the playground of Virginia Rocca Barton Elementary School in Salinas for their weekly shift as peer mediators.

Monterey Peninsula Unified School District student suspensions on the decline

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By Juan Reyes | jreyes@montereyherald.com | Monterey Herald
PUBLISHED: April 8, 2019 at 3:04 pm | UPDATED: April 8, 2019 at 3:05 pm
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Central Coast High School principal Alan Crawford, right, shows off a book about alternative discipline during a Monterey Peninsula Unified School District special meeting on Tuesday, April 2, 2019. (Marci McFadden — Monterey Peninsula Unified School District)

The Role of restorative Justice featured in this article

Alessandro Tani, assistant principal at Marina High School, said they teamed up with Restorative Justice Partners Inc. of Marina in spring 2017. He said the school staff was trained in the practices of restorative justice.
“Essentially what it allows us to do is it allows us to have a scripted, safe conversation with students to get past some things that happened on campus,” Tani said.
Tani said it can be used for peer mediation. For example, suspending students may not extinguish the tension, and a fight could break out when the students return, which could result in multiple suspensions. He said using restorative justice in that example creates a space where students can coexist on campus.
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the rjp staff Practices mindfulness

Mindfulness workshop hosted by franklin legacy fund

Sandra Leader, of the Franklin Legacy Fund, ran a workshop about mindfulness for RJP, Inc. to ensure that restorative justice practitioners can provide the strongest services possible. 

In The news

Restorative Justice Partners:
Repairing The Harm
Bringing victims and offenders together to encourage accountability, reparation and empathy.
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YouTube Videos Of Interest
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Remembering Connie White
It is with a sad heart, and yet with hope in the resurrection, that I write to let you know that the Reverend Connie White passed away yesterday.  She suffered cardiac arrest. You may remember that Connie was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Mallory on May 31, 1989.  She served as the diocesan Prison Ministries Coordinator from 1988 to 1993 while also the associate rector at St. Edward’s, San Jose.  After that she served as associate rector at St. Jude’s, Cupertino for about two years.  She was then called to be the rector at St. George’s, Salinas from 1994 to 2001.  In her final call before retirement, Connie served as the Executive Director of Restorative Justice Partners in Monterey.   Connie, and her husband Marvin, attended Good Shepherd in Corral de Tierra after leaving St. George’s.  They spent the final years in the Albuquerque, New Mexico area. Her husband, Marvin, preceded her in death. Connie is survived by her children, Gordon, Charles and Becky.
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Remembering Susie Franklin
The folks at Voices of Monterey Bay — and nonprofits throughout Monterey County — were saddened to learn of the death of Susie Franklin this week. Franklin and the wonderful people at her Franklin Legacy Fund provided significant assistance to the VOMB Squad when we first came up with this loony idea to develop a nonprofit news operation.
The Carmel Valley resident had been involved in nonprofit work her entire career and, as she noted, she created the Franklin Legacy Fund with the hope "to inspire future generations to dream of a better world and give meaning to material wealth by making it happen."  
Her son Seth announced July 6 that Franklin died suddenly while she and her husband were nearing the end of their "spectacular" RV cross-country trip. "She opened her arms wide to embrace and support as many people as she could," Seth wrote. "In the process she left an indelible, almost larger-than-life impression on so many." ~July 9 edition of Voices of Monterey Bay
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Restorative Justice Partners, Inc Award Dinner
The 2018 Restorative Justice Partners, Inc. Award Dinner had the honor of recognizing Susie Franklin, Founder of the Franklin Legacy Fund. Ms. Franklin's support helped take RJP, Inc. to a new level! Even following, the Initiative's Vision remains a guiding light as the organization moves forward.
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