Guiding Documents For Restorative Justice Practices In CO Up For Review
Each year the RJ Council makes a time for the RJ Community to review and provide comment on the living documents that guide our restorative justice practices in CO. These documents include the Training Guidelines, Facilitator Code of Conduct and Standards of Practice and the newly created and adopted Restorative Practices in Schools Guide. The feedback and comments are taken into consideration by the RJ Council and may be integrated into updated versions of these documents in order to keep them relevant to the work of practitioners, consultants and trainers as well as people planning to implement and begin using restorative justice practices. ..
Deb
Witzel and I just finished facilitating our workshop “Where Restorative Justice and Victim Services Meet – Stepping Forward Together” at the 2016 COVA
conference in beautiful Keystone, Colorado. The attendees to the workshop brought a wide range of experience in restorative practices and the victim
services field. The goal of the workshop was to provide the audience with usable information about restorative practices in Colorado and emphasize
the importance of victim service agencies involvement throughout the process. Toward the end of the workshop we facilitated a liberating structure
asking the question “How can we better assess if RJ is appropriate for victims?” Attendees gave thoughtful responses and insight into this important
question which was captured in part on the following flipchart paper: 
