Restorative Justice Community Action

04/01/2026

We are having our April circles for Coming To The Table!
The Racial Healing Circle (April 15th at 6 PM) & The White Affinity Circle (April 22nd at 12 PM).

The CTTT Racial Healing Talking Circle provides a space for truth-telling and acknowledging the impacts of historical and racialized harm on our lives today.

The CTTT White Affinity Circle provides a brave, restorative space for white-identifying people to learn and grow together.

To learn more about these circles and to register please visit our webpage with the link provided below! We hope to see you there!

The Coming To The Table Group hosts two monthly virtual gatherings. They are the Racial Healing Talking Circle and the White Affinity Talking Circle. Join others invested in transforming psychological trauma into nonviolent power each month to help instigate these monthly CTTT gatherings is for all....

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11/19/2025

In celebration of Restorative Justice week, we wanted to highlight one of partners, Koinonia Leadership Academy!

Dr. Talaya L Tolefree is the founder and CEO of Koinonia Leadership Academy. Through Koinonia Leadership Academy, she provides leadership development with relationship building, strategic planning, restorative practices consulting, coaching, mentoring, training, and implementation. Dr. Tolefree believes education is a human right and should occur in safe, inclusive and empathetic environments. She specializes in school-based restorative practices to improve school climate and transform punitive educational practices into restorative and healing spaces.

In collaboration with Koinonia, we created our Youth Leadership cohort which provides an opportunity for high school age youth in the Twin Cities area to develop an understanding of restorative ways of being and to build cross-cultural relationships and leadership skills. Additionally, we collaborate with our Youth Circles which focuses on youth ages 14-18 who are on supervised probation in Hennepin County Juvenile Court.
To learn more about Koinonia Leadership Academy: https://www.koinonialeadershipacademy.com

To support Restorative Justice Community Action and donate: https://www.rjca-inc.org/support-us/

We collaborate to offer Restorative Practices across sectors to help communities build meaningful restorative leadership and development.

11/18/2025

It is Restorative Justice Week!

In Celebration of this week, we wanted to share a graphic image created by Wilder Research from the words of volunteers, board members, and conference referred participants of RJCA.

On October 9, 2026 Wilder Research facilitated a graphic recording session with Restorative Justice Community Action (RJCA) volunteers, board members, and conference referred participants. The group discussed a series of questions about the impacts of RJCA’s work on them as individuals, their relationships, their communities, and the justice system as a whole. During the discussion a graphic notetaker documented the conversation visually and another Wilder Research staff member took notes. This discussion resulted in a visual image of the impact of RJCA across multiple domains, as well as this summary of the themes discussed during the session.

The themes described in this report emerged from a simple thematic content analysis that involved listening to a recording of the discussion, reading over the notes to get a sense of the whole, and analyzing the visual image. Next, text from the notes and recording were sorted into “buckets” that reflected the topic, such as “individual impacts” or “shifts in perception.” Then, these topics were combined or further elaborated to elicit themes. Each of them is described below and includes supporting quotations from the participants.

If you would like to support Restorative Justice, you can use the link provided below to donate: https://www.rjca-inc.org/support-us/

10/09/2025

Restorative Justice Community Action presents STAR Training, led by Crixell Shell!

Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR) Training is a 38-hour, multi-day, evidence-based program with more than 20 years of national and international impact. STAR integrates leading research on trauma healing and resilience from neurobiology, restorative justice, nonviolent conflict transformation, and broadly defined spirituality. Grounded in truth-telling and racial healing, STAR supports participants in building just and equitable relationships and opens the possibility of reconciliation for positive interpersonal and systemic nonviolent change.

For more information and registration use the QR code or Link provided below!
https://go.levitate.ai/?s=99c79x3yKW&source=event