Schools & Youth Information

Articles Available

• Abused Teenager Becomes Million Dollar Kid
• Addressing the Problem of Juvenile Bullying 
• Amicus: Restorative Justice for Girls
• Bibliography - Classroom management approaches
• Changing Her Ways, Set to Graduate
• Circle Activity
• Commissioner - Christine Jax
• Empathy Development in Youth through Restorative Practices
• Engaging the Community in the Response to Youth: An Restorative Justice Approach
• Family Group Conferencing 1996
• Finding Justice in a Tragic End
• Girls' Restorative Justice Program
• History and Description of the Bullying Prevention Program
• Juvenile Justice System Terminology
• One Victims Wake-up Call Produces a Reconciliation
• PEASE Academy The Restorative Recovery School
• Restitution: How to Repair Harm
• Restorative Circles and Class Meetings
• Restorative Creativity
• Restorative Justice in Everyday Life: Beyond the Formal Ritual
• Restorative Measures in Minnesota Schools
• Restorative Measures Principles and Practices
• Restorative Schools Grant
• Restoring School Communities
• Sample Restorative Justice Application in Juvenile Settings
• Strengthening communities - reducing violence
• Youth Development Circles

• Zero Tolerance Policies

Books Available

• Power Source: Taking charge of Your Life By Bethany Casarjian and Robin Casarjian ISBN: 0964493349

  POWER SOURCE: Taking Charge of Your Life is a book/curriculum/program designed to help highly at-risk youth identify their strengths and take control over their lives, while increasing their understanding of the emotions and beliefs driving their high-risk and offending behavior.  It can be read individually or used in facilitator-led groups. The material is appropriate for virtually any organization serving the needs of highly at-risk youth, including secure and non-secure detention centers, jails, prisons, drug treatment programs, schools, and a variety of community-based programs.

• The Little Book of Restorative Discipline for Schools By Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz & Judy H. Mullet ISBN: 1561485063

  “Can an overworked teacher possibly turn an unruly incident with students into an "opportunity for learning, growth, and community-building"?

  If restorative justice has been able to salvage lives within the world of criminal behavior, why shouldn't its principles be applied in school classrooms and cafeterias?

  And if our children learn restorative practices early and daily, won't we be building a healthier, more just society? Two educators answer yes, yes, and yes in this new addition to The Little Books of Justice and Peacebuilding series. They urge a focus on consequences rather than punishment. They insist that relationships-far more than rules-are central to building community, and that community fosters caring and belonging. They put up with no hypocrisy: teachers and administrators must live restorative practices, too.

  So how does it all work? Stutzman and Amstutz offer applications and models. Among them are class meetings for 5th graders; reintegration of 7th- and 8th- graders who were suspended; circle processes, which offer space for all voices to be heard, and also quiet tensions that are building; and community conferencing when trouble shapes up between students and neighbors. "Discipline that restores is a process to make things as right as possible." This Little Book shows how to get there.”