National

Aboriginal Justice Directorate.

Justice Canada

Contact:
Rebecca Berry
The Aboriginal Justice Directorate
248 Wellington Street
Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0H8
Tel.: 1-866-442-4468
Fax: (613) 957-4697
Email: ajs-sja@justice.gc.ca
Website: www.justice.gc.ca/eng/pi/ajs-sja

Canadian Families and Corrections Network

Contact:
Susan Gilger, National Coordinator
C.F.C.N.
Box 35040
Kingston, Ontario, K7L 5S5
Tel: (613) 541-0743, 1-888-371-2326 (English), 1-877-875-1285 (French)
Email: national@cfcn-rcafd.org
Website: www.cfcn-rcafd.org

“The F Word”

Location: Canada

Languages: English

Services Offered:

• Workshops

Description of Program:

Shannon Moroney and Katy Hutchison, women affected by violent crime, restorative justice advocates, authors, speakers and close friends; come together to create space to talk about the F Word – forgiveness.

This experiential workshop is conducted in a circle format to enable all participants to share equally in an exploration of what forgiveness may or may not represent to them. A series of exercises and storytelling offers a rich and thoughtful perspective designed to connect the individual to his or her own story.

The original workshop was designed for a maximum of twenty-four participants over three hours with a break halfway through. Shannon and Katy are prepared to adapt The F Word to meet the needs of your group.

Target Groups: Youth, service providers, workplace, and community groups

Contact:
Katy Hutchison OR Shannon Moroney
3904 Sheret Place
Victoria, BC
V8N 4J7
Tel: (250) 213-6006
Email: Katy@katyhutchisonpresents.com
Tel: (647) 289-2001
Email: Shannon@shannonmoroney.com
Website: www.katyhutchisonpresents.com, www.shannonmoroney.com

Heartspeak Productions

Location: Canada

Languages: English

Services Offered:

• Resources
• Workshops
• Public Education

Description of Program:

For the past decade, Heartspeak Productions has been at the forefront of research and the creation of educational DVD resources about restorative justice values, principles, best practices and related subjects by collaborating with organizations and people willing to share their stories and wisdom. Heartspeak’s approach to public education includes a highly popular YouTube channel launched in 2007 with now over 60 free videos and over 200,000 views worldwide. Their filmmaking process is more than just documentation. Many of their films provide a vehicle to help address genuine healing requirements of victims, offenders or communities. Heartspeak's DVD, 'The Reena Virk Story', has initiated hundreds of discussions, in schools and communities, about bullying prevention and meaningful responses. Their video ‘Brain Development and Addiction with Dr. Gabor Maté’ has also helped thousands understand and heal from addiction.

Target Groups: Everyone

Contact:
Larry Moore OR Cathie Douglas
PO Box 1086
Kaslo, BC, V0G 1M0
Tel: (250) 353-7779
Email: hartpsk@telus.net
Website: www.heartspeakproductions.ca, www.youtube.com/heartspeak

Peace of the Circle

Location: Canada

Languages: English

Services Offered:

• Restorative Justice Processes
• Training
• Workshops
• Presentations
• Program Consultation

Description of Program:

Peace of the Circle is an independent organization founded by Evelyn Zellerer, Ph.D. We offer training, facilitation, workshops, and presentations on Restorative Justice and Circles. We specialize in working with groups to have productive meetings, transform conflict, and build relationships. We work with a variety of clients, including businesses, government agencies, not-for-profit groups, police, correctional institutions, and communities.

Description of Training: Peacemaking Circles

Learn to use Peacemaking Circles as a way to have authentic conversations, transform conflict, and build relationships.  Participants will gain the knowledge and skills necessary to begin to apply Circles to many aspects of their work, community, and/or home life.

The training includes:

• What are peacemaking circles
• How they work
• The elements of circles
• The stages of circles
• The difference between circles and other processes
• The role of facilitators
• Applying circles

This is a highly experiential training which is custom designed for your group or organization. We offer introductory workshops as well as more in-depth 2 and 3 day intensive training.

Description of Training: Circle Facilitator Training

Pre-requisite: peacemaking circle training

This training is for those who have already been introduced to Circles and are interested in becoming circle facilitators or what we call “keepers”.  Participants will gain the knowledge and skills necessary to facilitate Circles, whether within their organization or in their community.

The training includes topics such as:

• Circle design and process
• Selection and characteristics of keepers (facilitators)
• Activities of keepers (before, during, outside, and after the circle)
• Logistics
• Keeper tools
• Problem solving
• Decision making and consensus
• Challenges

This is a highly experiential training which is custom designed for your group or organization. We offer two day intensive training as well as training over a period of time.

Description of Training: Circle Meetings

Are you tired of unproductive, ineffective, or just plain boring meetings?  Find out how to conduct your business powerfully and effectively – Circle Meetings.

In this experiential training, you will learn:

• what are Circles meetings
• how Circle meetings differ from standard meetings
• how to have authentic, meaningful conversations
• how to build sustainable, positive, productive relationships
• how to creatively solve problems
• effective and inclusive decision-making
• cultivating true leadership

This training is especially valuable for anyone who initiates, leads or facilitates meetings, including executives, managers, directors, supervisors, consultants, and leaders.  This training is appropriate for all kinds of meetings, whether they occur in a corporate, not-for-profit, community, or government context. This training is suitable for any group that has meetings.  Training is custom designed to meet your specific situation and needs. We offer introductory as well as more in-depth training on how to hold meetings in circles.

Contact:
Evelyn Zellerer
Vancouver, BC
Tel: (778) 322-3804
Email: evelyn@ezellerer.com
Website: www.ezellerer.com, www.peaceofthecircle.com

Quakers Fostering Justice of Canadian Friends Service Committee

Location: Canada

Languages: English

Services Offered:

• Resources
• Training
• Workshops
• Presentations

Description of Program:

Quakers Fostering Justice (QFJ), in keeping with Friends’ testimonies and advices concerning peace, justice and equality, holds as its long-term goal the fostering of a way of life that is both just and compassionate. This includes creatively sharing our understanding that while harm and conflict will continue to be a part of the fabric of human experience, when hurt we should not respond with punishment or prisons.

We will work towards discerning, developing and encouraging responses that are creative, healing and empowering; that is, the building of a caring community that has no need for punishment or prisons. Our concern is rooted in the Quaker tradition of answering that of God in every person; the present legal and prison systems reflect injustice, violence and blindness to that of God in each of us. We are clear that, by creatively taking responsibility for ourselves and one another, we will transform both ourselves and our communities. We recognize that this challenging way of living is one that honours our relationship to Spirit, one another, and all of Creation.

Target Groups: Education, public and within faith communities

Contact:
Meredith Egan
PO Box 20057
RPO Mission Hills
Mission, BC, V2V 7P8
Tel: (604) 832-0954
Email: meredith@quakerservice.ca
Website: http://cfsc.quaker.ca/pages/jails.html

Restorative Justice Division

Correctional Service Canada

Location: Canada

Languages: English and French

Services Offered:

• Restorative Justice Processes
• Funding
• Resources
• Training
• Presentations
• Event Planning
• Program Consultation

Description of Program:

The Restorative Justice (RJ) Division of the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) has been advancing work in three principle areas: Restorative Opportunities, Restorative Correctional Environments, and Criminal Justice Reform.

Restorative Opportunities – Victim Offender Mediation Services

Restorative Opportunities (RO) is a CSC program that offers post-sentence victim-offender mediation services across Canada. RO provides the opportunity for people affected by serious crime to communicate with the other party and try to address the harms caused with the help of professional mediators. Processes may include but are not limited to: letter/video exchange, shuttle mediation, and face-to-face meetings. Participation is voluntary for everyone concerned – victims, offenders and community members. Measures, such as on-going assessments are completed to ensure participants' safety and privacy.

The RO program accepts requests for participation from registered victims, victim representatives acting on behalf of registered victims and non-registered victims affected by serious crime. Offenders who have taken responsibility for their actions and are interested in participating in Restorative Opportunities must be referred to the program by a correctional staff member who supports their participation.

Restorative Correctional Environments

The RJ Division explores and encourages the application of restorative justice in prison and community/parole operations by supporting pilot projects and initiatives that contribute to implementing RJ in the correctional environment. Such initiatives include: RJ Coalitions, a RJ Living Unit and ongoing consultation regarding RJ.

Criminal Justice Reform

The Restorative Justice Division has progressed in the area of Criminal Justice Reform in order to raise awareness about RJ within Canadian communities, government departments, including CSC, and contribute to policies and proposed legislation using a restorative justice lens. Community outreach and liaising with Canadians is recognized as an integral part of connecting with those interested in RJ, providing training, and consulting about the application of the RJ approach

Target Groups: General Public, RJ Practitioners, Academics, Offender Serving Agencies, Victim Serving Agencies, Governments, etc.

Contact:
Tania Petrellis, Director
340 Laurier Ave W
Ottawa, ON, K1A 0P9
Tel: (613) 947-6434 OR (613) 947-7309
Fax: 613-943-2171
Email: tania.petrellis@csc-scc.gc.ca 
General inquiries can be sent to: restorativejustice@csc-scc.gc.ca
Website: www.csc-scc.gc.ca/restorative-justice/index-eng.shtml

Restorative Opportunities – Victim Offender Mediation Services

Correctional Service Canada

Contact:
Renée Laframboise, Project Officer
Correctional Service Canada
Restorative Justice Division
340 Laurier Avenue West
Ottawa, ON, K1A 0P9
Tel.: (613) 995-4445
Fax: (613) 943-2171
Email: restorativejustice@csc-scc.gc.ca
Website: www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/rj/vom-eng.shtml

The Sawbonna Project

Location: Canada

Languages: English

Services Offered:

• Restorative Justice Processes
• Research
• Resources
• Training
• Workshops
• Presentations
• Coordination of Restorative Justice Programs
• Program Consultation
• Keynote and presentations

Description of Program:

The project’s mandate is to share talks and workshops with victims, offenders, at schools, colleges, universities, healing centres, parole officers, Elizabeth Fry Society, John Howard Society, CCJC, MCC, with media in which I speak of how meeting one of the men who murdered my Dad and I found healing and hope. At times Glen Flett and I are invited to speak together. Write and publish essays and articles.

The objective is to open hearts and minds with the sharing of our story and with the sharing of my workshops, which includes using my book, The Other Inmate: Mediating Justice-Mediating Hope: Poetry and Workbook for Restorative Practices, for which CSC has funded the French Translation.

Margot facilitates circles of support, writing communities birthed with both victims and offenders, where they can speak their voice around their processes of grief and healing, in a manner that honours varied relationships and timeframes to that process.

Target Groups: Schools, colleges, universities, healing centres, parole officers, Elizabeth Fry Society, John Howard Society, CCJC, MCC, with media, The Journey of Hope and anti-capital punishment groups in the US, where RJ proves a vital alternative to the death penalty.

Description of Training: Sawbonna: I See You. Hope and Healing After Violent Crime

This is an interactive expressive writing workshop in which participants are invited to use specific writing prompts to write their journey with their process of grief and healing. A powerful nonjudgmental sharing between the experienced facilitator, Margot Van Sluytman, and fellow participants often ensues. It is important to highlight that if individuals simply wish to listen and not share, that is very much respected. The text used is: The Other Inmate: Mediating Justice-Mediating Hope: Poetry and Workbook for Restorative Practices.

Contact:
Margot Van Sluytman
Tel: (403) 454-1275
Email: mvansluytman@shaw.ca

Shannon Moroney, RJ Advocate, Author, Artist, Speaker

Location: Canada

Languages: English and Spanish

Services Offered:

• Resources
• Workshops
• Presentations
• Program Consultation

Description of Program:

In 2005, Shannon Moroney’s husband was arrested and charged with the sexual assault and kidnapping of two strangers in Peterborough, Ontario. He also committed acts of voyeurism on Shannon and many others. In 2008, he was convicted and declared a dangerous offender.

Shannon now speaks widely about her experience as the family member of an offender and a victim of crime, advocating for restorative justice as one possible way to repair the harm crime causes to individuals, families and communities. She uses several pieces of her artwork to illustrate her journey.

Shannon is the author of "Restorative Options for an Offender's Spouse" in The Promise of Restorative Justice: New Hope for Criminal Justice and Beyond (Lynne Reinner Publishers, 2010), and is a contributor to the international Forgiveness Project. She is a volunteer restorative justice circle facilitator for youth with Peacebuilders International and a workshop leader for the award-winning youth program Leave Out ViolencE (LOVE).

Shannon also co-leads a workshop with Canadian author and advocate Katy Hutchison, entitled “The F-Word: Explorations of Forgiveness”.

Target Groups: Victims of crime, offenders, family members of offenders, Restorative Justice practitioners, secondary and post-secondary students, and professional bodies: lawyers, probation and parole officers, victims’ services, and police.

Contact:
Shannon Moroney
Tel: (647) 289-2001
Email: shannon@shannonmoroney.com

For Book and/or Speaking Events
Nicola Makoway, Senior Publicist
Random House Canada
Tel: (416) 957.1538
Email: nmakoway@randomhouse.com
Website: www.shannonmoroney.com

“The Story of Bob”

Location: International

Languages: English

Services Offered:

• Presentations

Description of Program:

Katy Hutchison is a concerned parent, author and restorative justice advocate with a compelling, real life story. In this very personalized one hour presentation, entitles The Story of Bob, Katy clearly describes how alcohol and other drug use, peer pressure, and misguided choices in an un-chaperoned setting caused the tragic death of her husband Bob. Through a powerful and poignant multi-media presentation, Katy shares how this traumatic event impacted her as a wife and as a mother of two young children. Her personal and interactive presentation is designed to inform her audience of the risks arising from using alcohol and other drugs and unsupervised settings, and to empower them to make healthier choices so similar tragedies can be prevented. In addition, Katy explores the power of forgiveness and describes her own grassroots quest for restorative justice.

Target Groups: Schools, community groups, service providers, victim groups

Contact:
Katy Hutchison
3904 Sheret Place
Victoria, BC, V8N 4J7
Tel: (250) 213-6006
Email: Katy@katyhutchisonpresents.com
Website: www.katyhutchisonpresents.com

Youth Canada Association (YOUCAN)

Contact:
Barbara Mitchell
C/O St. Paul University
223 Main Street
Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 1C4
Tel.: (613) 230-1903, 1-800-4YOUCAN
Email: info@youcan.ca
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