Resources and information
Workbook Companion and Online Resources for Spiritual Study, Spiritual Study Tool for Students.
Check out the information for building your own Testimony!
Colorizing Restorative Justice
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS, 2020), the number of adults on probation and parole remains the same as in 1998, which was during the height of the systemic trauma on vulnerable communities. 4,399,000 individuals, mostly people of color are coming out now in large numbers with viable skills and beginning to rebuild their families and lives. We want to support the community through restorative justice protecting the most vulnerable! Research shows that it is needed.
- Eagle and Davis (2020) reveal that the RJ field lacks authentic voice of People most underserved in American society, especially as leaders of RJ.
- Over the past 45 years, the mass incarceration of black and brown young people (2.2 mil./rel. 600,000) created more than twice the rate of divorce than whites in similar situations, which caused greater risk of family union instability due to harsher/lengthier sentencing, impacting employment outcomes, single working parent families, education opportunities and community life (Widdowson, Jacobsen, Siennick, & Warren, 2019/journal of Crim 2020).
The reality is we have a family instability crisis in the most vulnerable communities. I worked inside a US prison and most black men do not have family to visit them or send them packages in some areas. Women are traumatized by domestic and sexual violence, or a history of prostitution. Our goal is to restore our families through innovation, vocation and events.
