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When survivor voices challenge established restorative justice practices

The survivors on our restorative justice board are telling us that some of the processes we think are healing actually feel re-traumatizing to them and the rest of us don't know how to hold that feedback without abandoning everything we've learned.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group is confronting the gap between their good intentions and the actual experiences of the people they aim to serve.

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