Community Event Celebrating 20 Years of Restorative Justice programming

250 North 21st Street,Lincoln NE 68503

19 August, 2021

Description

Celebrating Twenty Terrific Years of Restorative Justice Intervention programming and services. Free Community Event: Please join us in celebrating Twenty Terrific Years of providing Restorative Justice programming and services to crime victims/survivors, communities, and justice involved individuals. Healing in the aftermath of Harm. The Community Justice Center was founded in 2001, by James Jones and is a Black-founded and Black-led forensic peer organization (all of our facilitators were formerly justice-involved individuals who view our work as Giving Back to our community, people who have been harmed, and peers). The Community Justice Center (CJC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, Restorative Justice organization working to towards healing in the aftermath of harm. We offer institutional and community programming that serves the needs of all stakeholders affected by harm. We provide effective and evidence based programming and forensic peer facilitation/support in all Nebraska Correctional Institutions, Douglas County Corrections, Lancaster County Corrections, with Nebraska Probation Reporting Centers statewide, and in Nebraska communities. Since 2001, we have served more than 11,000 justice-involved individuals Special Guest: Anne Seymour, a long time friend and supporter of the Community Justice Center. Anne Seymour has 30 years of experience as a national victim advocate. She is a Cofounder of and Senior Advisor to the Washington, D.C.-based national non-profit Justice Solutions, and Consultant to the Pew Charitable Trusts Public Safety Performance Project. She began her career in 1984 as the Director of Public Affairs for the National Office of Mothers Against Drunk Driving and, from 1985 to 1993, as co-founder and Director of Communications of the National Victim Center (now National Center for Victims of Crime). She has authored or contributed to over 30 curricula and texts published by the Office for Victims of Crime since 1989, including “The Victim Role in Offender Reentry” and “Creating a Victim Focus: A Guide to Working with Victims During Offender Reentry” books. She is the co-author and editor of Legacy of Community Justice. Anne was also the Director of the OVC Strategic Planning Toolkit Project, and served as its principal author and editor, and coordinator of a national “training for planners” and Statewide Strategic Planning Conference for six states, both held in 2003. She was the Project Director for OVC’s Oral History Project, and its National Public Awareness and Education Campaign. Anne has also served as a consultant and trainer for the U.S. Department of State to help improve services to American citizens who are victimized abroad, and was Co-investigator on the first project to determine mental health problems in Vietnam. She has appeared in virtually every news medium --including all network morning shows and evening newscasts, Nightline, Larry King Live, Crossfire, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and Frontline -- as an expert on crime victims' rights.