Sentences with phrase «community justice approaches»

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Niebuhr felt that this individualistic approach to faith and commitment was in danger of obscuring the highly complex task of justice in the community.

In relation to television, this mission has expressed itself as attempts to be responsible in their approach to and use of television by stressing cooperative ventures, justice in programming through the representation of the variety of community beliefs and aspirations, and social responsibility through encouraging humanizing programs and television's responsiveness to the needs of society.

Even the venue for the announcement — the Red Hook Community Justice Center in Brooklyn — was intended to showcase the new approach.

The mission of the Erie County Probation Department is to ensure the safety of the residents of Erie County by providing community - based supervision and rehabilitation services through a multi-disciplinary approach to individuals and families involved with the justice system.

«We need to take a comprehensive approach to criminal justice reform that ensures a fairer system, improves police community relations and addresses the fact that far too many of our young people — mostly low - income black and Latino males — are locked up at Rikers,» said Mark - Viverito.

RAND researchers examined whether the Community Justice Center reduces the risk of rearrest when compared to more - traditional approaches for addressing arrestees.

Much of her work has examined this environmental justice question in the context of ambient air pollution and indoor chemical exposures, prenatal exposures and effects on birth outcomes and children's health, often using community - based participatory research approaches for data collection and risk communication.

Time2Act.org Time2Act.org «is intended to encourage discussion among professionals in education, the justice system, parents, students and the community to stimulate new approaches to these issues nationwide and initiate reform.»

The school has taken a radically different approach to education, developing a special character with it's community (in Otara, South Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand) that focuses on bilingual, critically conscious, culturally responsive, social justice education.

These efforts include: Restorative Justice (RJ): Approaches that build community and resolve student interpersonal conflict by getting to the root cause of an issue and repairing harm through respectful dialogue.

Ethnic Studies incorporates culturally relevant, social justice, community responsive and other pedagogical approaches with a focus on literacy and critical thinking skills.

Charles uses his expertise as an educational justice organizer, strategist, advocate, and fundraiser to support Education Cities» member organizations with their approaches to community engagement and advocacy, with a special emphasis on lifting up the voices and influence of the parents and families most impacted by educational inequity.

Students, community groups, and legal advocates have all expressed their desire to the Coachella Valley Unified School District that it use some of its LCFF funds toward expanding restorative justice approaches in its schools.

In many schools with high rates of suspension, the SEL - aligned approach of choice is «restorative justice,» a concept common to many indigenous traditions that focuses on integrating wrongdoers into the community and reciprocally addressing conflict, instead of meting out punishment.

The term «restorative justice» describes approaches to discipline that help students «proactively build healthy relationships and a sense of community to prevent and address conflict and wrongdoing.»

School administrators and educators would implement a restorative justice approach, in which students repair harm done in a school community and preserve suspensions only for the most extreme cases.

Mr. Nodal states, «The Citizen Artists have employed a collaborative process with a multidisciplinary approach, involving all creative disciplines in collaboration with politicians, environmental activists, scientists, and community organizers to help individuals and communities understand and face the challenges of environmental justice, global environmental degradation, and for the last eight years, US indifference to environmental issues facing our world.

Today, these initiatives and the community of concern established through her expanded approach to both social justice and art might win Pankhurst the Turner Prize.

Pushed by grassroots environmental and social - justice groups, California has led the way on this approach, with 2012 legislation (Senate Bill 535) requiring that 25 percent of carbon revenue from the state's cap - and - trade program must be spent on clean - energy investments that benefit environmentally vulnerable low - income communities in places like Stockton, Fresno, Richmond, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Los Angeles (the targeted share for these communities was recently raised to 35 percent).

I do not think that the minority communities targeted in the «Climate Justice» program will appreciate this approach when they do not have enough gas to head to work, or they have to decide between heating their home in the winter or buying locally grown food at the store they are forced to walk to.

The New School Blog and White Papers are meant to foster the integration of bold design, policy, and social justice approaches to environmental issues to advance just and sustainable outcomes in collaboration with communities.

I've also been inspired by working with communities and organizations that are addressing the sustainability movement through various approaches, including community organizing, education, social justice, public health, the legal system, and ecopsychology.

This approach puts the user at the centre and considers how justice services can be sensitive to lived experience and community - specific needs.

Once the case reached the country's highest tribunal, the Supreme Court explained that the intent of the Criminal Code provision, introduced in Parliament in 1994, is to alleviate the higher rate of incarceration for Indigenous offenders and to implement restorative justice — an approach that views crime as harm done to people and that seeks to rehabilitate offenders through reconciliation with victims and the community.

As Charter litigation often involves some of Canada's most vulnerable communities, a flexible approach to these two issues has relieved some of the financial and emotional burdens of Charter litigation, and advanced access to justice.

Newman is committed to social justice, creative pedagogical approaches, and to serving marginalized communities in the Miami area and beyond, and her initiatives have focused on the Haitian diaspora, veterans» rights, pediatric care, and more.

The Commission's explanation for rejecting the D.C. approach in favor of a more restrictive approach was that the more restrictive approach is the «most modest» and it «would provide comparable opportunities for innovation and increased access to justice while offering stronger protections consonant with the core professional values of the broader US legal community.»

Realities such as poverty, such as addiction, mental health issues, that we collectively as a community need to address — whether that's being preventative or when they are actually within the criminal justice system, looking at restorative justice measures to do as much as we can to ensure for those people that it's not a revolving door — that they're not going to come back based on other issues that they may be having, that we can find a broader approach to ensuring that that door is not revolving.»

This new money would be another significant step in fulfilling the Civil Justice Reinvestment Plan — our community's approach to create meaningful access to civil legal aid.

Teaching Social Justice on Campus for Self Awareness, Community Sustainability, and Systems Change (03/02/18) This article addresses the relevance of teaching social justice on campus - in the classroom and in student affairs - and the challenge of maintaining a balanced and reasoned apJustice on Campus for Self Awareness, Community Sustainability, and Systems Change (03/02/18) This article addresses the relevance of teaching social justice on campus - in the classroom and in student affairs - and the challenge of maintaining a balanced and reasoned apjustice on campus - in the classroom and in student affairs - and the challenge of maintaining a balanced and reasoned approach.

Justice reinvestment is a localised criminal justice policy approach that diverts a portion of the funds spent on imprisonment to local communities where there is a high concentration of offJustice reinvestment is a localised criminal justice policy approach that diverts a portion of the funds spent on imprisonment to local communities where there is a high concentration of offjustice policy approach that diverts a portion of the funds spent on imprisonment to local communities where there is a high concentration of offenders.

In a criminal justice specific context, New Zealand has also adopted restorative justice approaches, such as conferencing, diversionary programs and community - based orders to deal with some offences committed by juveniles and adults.

In my Social Justice Report I draw attention to 19 examples of successful programs which use a range of approaches to address this issue: community education; healing; alcohol management; men's groups; family support and child protection; safe houses; and programs for offenders.

In South Australia, a growing community of people and organisations is calling for a smarter approach to criminal justice that may help to reduce crime and incarceration rates, reports Hon D...

In Australia the surviving title approach to transitional justice requires the Indigenous community to prove in a court or tribunal that colonisation caused them no material injury.

Skye Bullen, the Community Data Manager from the Maranguka Justice Reinvestment Project in Bourke told the symposium how the Maranguka project uses a community - based participatory research approach to reduce the high rate of Aboriginal children and young people's offending, reoffending and incarceration in adult prison and youth dCommunity Data Manager from the Maranguka Justice Reinvestment Project in Bourke told the symposium how the Maranguka project uses a community - based participatory research approach to reduce the high rate of Aboriginal children and young people's offending, reoffending and incarceration in adult prison and youth dcommunity - based participatory research approach to reduce the high rate of Aboriginal children and young people's offending, reoffending and incarceration in adult prison and youth detention.

In South Australia, a growing community of people and organisations is calling for a smarter approach to criminal justice that may help to reduce crim... Read more

Adopting a justice reinvestment approach means investing in disadvantaged communities — not prisons — to develop and implement local solutions addressing economic and social determinants and risk factors behind youth offending.

Researchers from the Australian National University, led by Dr Jill Guthrie, are conducting an innovative community research study in Cowra, NSW to evaluate the potential use of a justice reinvestment approach to addressing crime, and particularly the imprisonment of the town's young people.

Despite the promise of a place - based approach with strong community engagement, the US experience has become more focused on statewide criminal justice reforms and investment into community corrections, such as probation and parole services.

In South Australia, a growing community of people and organisations is calling for a smarter approach to criminal justice that may help to reduce crime and incarceration rates, reports Hon Dr Robyn Layton AO QC, Justice Reinvestment SA Chairjustice that may help to reduce crime and incarceration rates, reports Hon Dr Robyn Layton AO QC, Justice Reinvestment SA ChairJustice Reinvestment SA Chairperson.

Reconciliation Australia called for collaborative, community - led approaches to justice reinvestment approaches, with mounting evidence to show this could «help to tackle problems around offending and incarceration, while creating alternative pathways and brighter futures for young people».

Reconciliation Australia welcomes the recommendations and emphasises the importance of a collaborative, community - led approach to justice reinvestment to tackle the overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people — including youth — in the criminal justice system.

«There is mounting evidence that a community - driven, collaborative approach to justice reinvestment can help to tackle problems around offending and incarceration, while creating alternative pathways and brighter futures for young people.»

• Provide best practices to improve collaboration and partnership amongst tribal leadership, advocates, and criminal justice and community professionals through a multidisciplinary approach.

An approach with roots in the justice system, restorative practices (also known as «restorative justice») in the school setting involves: «1) repairing harm, 2) bringing together all affected to collaboratively figure out how to repair harm, and 3) giving equal attention to community safety, victims» needs, and offender accountability and growth.»

Reconciliation Australia joins with Just Reinvest NSW, the Change the Record coalition, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations and others in reaffirming the urgent need for sustained investment in communities, and a national, long - term approach to justice reinvestment, to lessen the disproportionate rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander incarceration across Australia.

«As last night's Four Corners program showed, justice reinvestment is the smarter approach to building stronger communities, particularly for young people,» said Justin Mohamed, CEO of Reconciliation Australia.

With this plan, we strive to translate our commitment to access to justice into practical approaches and policies that deliver equitable outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and families.