2009 Mediation Training
JUNE 2009. Seventeen hours of basic victim-offender mediation training, incuding lecture, videos and role playing. For more information, please download this .pdf file.
 

Mo’olelo Presents Good Boys, a story of Reconciliation at work!

Mo’olelo Production company , now in residence at the La Jolla Playhouse presents a story of Victim-Offender reconciliation with it’s newest production of Good Boy written by Jane Martin and Directed by Seema Sueko.

Good Boys Runs May 21st – June 14th at the La Jolla Playhouse in La Jolla. Tickets can be purchased www.moolelo.net or by calling 619-342-7395.

 
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Preventing the Spiral of Crime;

Bringing Healing to Communities

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Welcome to our Web Site!

The San Diego Restorative Justice Mediation Program seeks to prevent the spiral of crime among juveniles in San Diego County through Victim-Offender Mediation and community training and involvement. Our program works at all levels of offense—the courts, the Probation department, the police and sheriffs, and schools and school districts.  

We are especially interested in helping those who are on the path to delinquency—they’ve not yet committed a crime, but their activities suggest to the adults around them that they may be headed in that direction. Early intervention is crucial. To that end, we are developing special projects in schools and communities. This Spring, we are training ninth graders at Granger Junior High in National City in mediation. These students will be peer mediators at Sweetwater High School next fall.  RJMP is also working with local law enforcement to find new ways to deal with truancy. And, we are beginning to establish a presence among the Native American tribes in North County—helping to bring peace on the reservations. 

The need for our Program is not in dispute. In 2006, 47 juveniles were arrested every day in San Diego County (SANDAG). Over the course of the year, that amounted to 17,155 minors entering into an overburdened juvenile court system. And, with tighter budgets at all levels of government, that means more work and more stress for teachers, police, and probation officers.  Right now, we offer our mediation services to these officials free of charge. 

Although RJMP has been around since 1993, in 2009, we are re-building our program. We are engaged in an awareness campaign that makes Restorative Justice a household name and a community practice. We’re hosting a series of Community Forums where folks can meet us face-to-face, ask questions about our program, find out ways they can help, and point us toward others they know who want to know about us. We also need your help: volunteer mediators (our 18-hour training is offered biannually), volunteer office workers, and, of course, people who will help us out financially

San Diego is the only major city in California that does not support an active Restorative Justice or Victim Offender Reconciliation Program.  We want to change that by the end of 2009. This is undoubtedly a challenge—and the kind of challenge that gets me excited.  Please join us as we keep kids out of jail by preventing the spiral of crime and making more peaceful communities. 

Peace to you,

Ben Conarroe

Executive Director

 

 
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Donations to the Restorative Justice Mediation Program are tax deductible. >Read More
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Read Mayor Jerry Sander's Endorsment of RJMP. You need Acrobat Reader to open the file. >Read More

Read San Diego Probation Department Endorsement of RJMP. >Read More

Read Endorsement of RJMP by Ron Roberts, Supervisor, Fourth District, San Diego County Board of Supervisors. >Read More

Read Press Release regarding National University and RJMP's partnership. >Read More

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Read the The San Diego Union Tribune article on SDRJMP in its Currents section. You need Acrobat Reader to open the file. >Read More
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We will be happy to supply a speaker on the subject of restorative justice for your organization or group. >Read More
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