Tag: Colorado

• Strengths-Based Restorative Justice Agreements: Using Art to Make Things Right

  Restorative justice practitioners place a great deal of emphasis on being strengths-based. This means identifying and supporting an individual’s assets: the positive passions, skills, interests, and connections that make them unique. Taking the time to identify these strengths with participants has many benefits. It helps to combat feelings of stigmatizing shame by showing that you…

  lindseycpointer

  March 13, 2020

  Articles

  assets, Colorado, questions, relationships, Restorative Justice, Restorative Practices, strengths

• Restorative Justice Has Something for Everyone

  State Representative Pete Lee has successfully passed several bills advancing Restorative Justice in Colorado since he was first elected in 2011. The most recent of these bills was passed unanimously. At the Colorado Restorative Justice Symposium in September, Representative Lee explained how he achieved this astounding bipartisan support. “To the Libertarian Republicans who are skeptical of…

  lindseycpointer

  December 1, 2015

  Interviews

  Colorado, Pete Lee, Restorative Justice, Restorative Practices