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9 Adopting Restorative Policies and Practices to Achieve Health Equity
Pages 71-78

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From page 71...
... Both presenters used storytelling to provide illustrative examples that conveyed key concepts of restorative policies and practices. RESTORATIVE CIRCLES Gajwani explained the elements of restorative circles.
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From page 72...
... THE INDIGENOUS MODEL OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE Stephanie Autumn attributed her career selection of restorative justice to her experience with the inequities of the justice system in indigenous communities across the United States. She said she was born into activism and has lived in many social justice settings.
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From page 73...
... Autumn and her colleagues worked on the local level with judges, prosecutors, and school superintendents to discuss how the systems that are serving families function and how to move to an equitable system using restorative practices. The team noticed they were seeing the same families and young people in different systems: justice, education, child welfare, and correctional settings.
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From page 74...
... An effort to change school climate is a type of restorative justice process. "So restorative justice is not something you set aside," she said, "but something you braid in with your evidence-based intervention using a bottom-up model." CASE STUDY 2: THE POWER OF AGENCY Gajwani's second case study highlighted the power of agency in a ­ estorative practice approach.
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From page 75...
... We have to look at the institution where we are living, working, breathing, and how we will integrate restorative thought, philosophy, and value within those systems." In restorative practice process, noted Autumn, people thrive as their authentic selves. Practitioners are not able to promote restorative practice to achieve the best outcomes for young people and families if they are constrained by systems of inequity.
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From page 76...
... P ­ rosecutors want to offer victims choices, agency, and power, she observed, and to prevent future victimization and violence. Gajwani's team handles a lot of cases from prosecutors that deal with conflict between people, and she said she also wants prosecutors to think about what restorative justice can do for the young people who commit the crime.
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From page 77...
... What we want is for our prosecutors to absorb some of that, not just by having a place to refer victims, nor [just] a place to humanize these respondents, but [a place to]
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