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Restorative Justice

Respecting, repairing and restoring relationships

Restorative Justice

  • seeks to build community by providing a constructive framework to guide our responses to crime, conflict, offensive behavior, violations and injustices
  • values all people our criminal justice system, in our homes, schools, churches and workplaces
  • asks that harms be acknowledged, damages repaired, dignity established
  • offers hope of integration for all those who have experienced harm and alienation
  • actively includes the people impacted by crime - the offenders, their families, victims and communities
  • contributes to the common good of our society

 

MCC Ontario's Restorative Justice work has a variety of faces:

Circles of Care
A new initiative in the Kitchener area designed to offer support to those who have experienced elder abuse.  

Circles of Support and Accountability
Small "circles" of volunteers and MCCO staff become new communities for men whose crimes have marginalized them from society.

Dismas Fellowship
Friday night is often the loneliest night of the week! Dismas, named after the good thief on the cross, is a fellowship/worshipping community for those who have been impacted by crime. This group co-sponsored with community chaplaincy and several local churches meets in Toronto and Hamilton.
Volunteers are needed.
Contact: Rick Pauw
 
Grand Valley Comforter Project
In conjunction with MCC's material resource program, this project brings volunteers from the community to inside Grand Valley Prison for Women. Together, federally sentenced women and volunteers create comforters to be used in international relief.
Volunteers are needed.
Contact: Eileen Henderson

SMARRT
Resourcing Mennonite and Brethren In Christ churches regarding sexual misconduct by leadership within these churches.
 
Community Chaplaincy with Women
Working work with women from Hamilton and Toronto who are returning to the community after incarceration.

This website has been developed by MCC to help:

  • Survivors: people suffering abuse at home, school, church or work
  • Those who are unsure whether the treatment they are receiving is really abuse
  • Helpers: pastors or others seeking to support an abused person
  • Leaders: congregational leaders seeking resources for people in their communities of faith who relate to survivors and perpetrators in situations of domestic violence or sexual abuse.