Over the last school year, Bridger Middle School leaders decided to take a different approach to deal with the fighting and students acting out.

That predictable, structured place to safely share is critical, especially for students who want to take on society’s bigger challenges, Swearingen said. “It puts us in a spot where we can be vulnerable with each other, and because we can be vulnerable together we can be productive.”

Two unique programs that support Tri-City students are getting nearly $60,000 combined, thanks to proceeds of criminal activity.

Clarissa Gonzalez shares the impact that GCC whole-school restorative practices implementation training has had on her Nevada school.

Criminal justice reform advocates are applauding a diversion program created to resolve the hundreds of felony cases that came out of the civil unrest that followed the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020.

Restorative justice was successfully used for one of the first times in Indiana to remediate a legal confrontation.