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CDRJS Annual General Meeting (AGM) for 2020

Will be held:

March 12, 2020

4:30 PM

Room 202 – 125 10^th Ave S, Cranbrook BC

This is a great opportunity for members and potential new members to learn about the work of CDRJS during 2019. We are always looking for new members, new facilitators, new board members and new ideas.

Restorative Justice Training

Restorative Justice Facilitator Training

The CJF Training session held in November 2019 was successfully concluded with 18 new facilitators.

Our next training session will be held in Golden, BC on March 4 - 6, 2020. If you wish to be on the email list for that opportunity, please submit an application at Training Registration

and visit Membership and Training

About the Training:

CJF Training - Community Justice Facilitator Training - Developed by Division E of the RCMP

Training to includes 20 hrs. of instruction, discussion and guided practice on:
The CJF Program

Trauma Informed Practice

Human Dignity as a Guide to Restorative Practice - Pontoon Boats vs Kayaks

Introduction to PeaceMaking
Application to other professions and personal life
Opportunity for full certification through the Mentorship Program
Opportunity for membership in CDRJS

Trainers: Deb and Doug McPhee

34 years of combined experience with facilitation in the community and school system

10 years of combined experience as CJF Trainers and Mentors

CDRJS would like to thank Civil Forfeiture for the grant which made training possible.

Restorative Justice "Other Benefits"

CDRJS supports and provides Restorative Justice Facilitation.

The "other" benefits of are:

1. It is free. There are no dues or fees, we only ask that members are involved in some personal and meaningful way.

2. CDRJS is community-based program that focuses on community-based issues.

3. There are a variety of avenues open for involvement:

You can become a facilitator - we provide the training and mentorship;

You can participate on the Board of Directors - we are always looking for new directors and new skills foster new and exciting changes;

4. Raise funds and write grants - I know, there are some people, in addition to myself, who enjoy that sort of activity;

5. Suggest articles to be added to the website or newspaper - Suggesting also includes writing, but suggesting as a start is great.

6. Be involved in surveys or other forms of community input - We are currently looking for input into a new LOGO!

One of the recent initiatives is to create a new Logo for our two project areas: Cranbrook and District Restorative Justice and Humanity Network. We have contracted with Telus to come up with something truly amazing. In order for it to be amazing and represent our collective efforts, I prepared a survey with the information that Telus needs in order to get started.
The survey takes about 5 minutes and the benefit of your involvement will be to select one of the possible options that are created by Telus.
If you are currently a member of either CDRJS or the Humanity Network, check your email as I may have sent to a link to the surveys. If it isn't there, please drop me a line and I'll send the link Doug McPhee.

If you would like to join and contribute in a manner which honours your interest, ability and most importantly your time:

For CDRJS, please tour our website and visit our Membership Page.
For the Humanity Network, please tour the Humanity Network website and contact Amy Cross for further information.

What does your membership with CDRJS mean to you?

"It means I am connected in some way to a restorative type of justice for the smaller felonies and that it can help both the victim and the person doing the crime to have a more restorative solution for both sides. Both sides do not then get caught up in the plugged-up court system."

Comment from the recent membership survey. Posted with permission.

Further Insights:

CJF Restorative Justice Facilitator Training

Golden, BC

Presentors: Deb and Doug McPhee

Date to be Arranged for this Spring

Castlegar, BC

Presentors: Deb and Doug McPhee

Date to be Arranged for this Spring

Link to Registration

Facilitating Dialogue

A restorative justice approach works to repair harm and strengthen communities where wrong has occured.

Trainer: Alana Abramson

April 21-23, 2020

Vancouver , BC

Link to Website

Thinking Beyond the Bars

The International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law is pleased to announce that the 2020 conference will be held from July 13-16 in Vancouver BC.

Link to Website

Logo Development - More Logos to Ponder

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Logos are a shorthand representation of an organization's best intentions. We have been working on a new logo for CDRJS as the concept of a logo needs to keep up with changes in CDRJS.

To this end, the Development Team at Telus has been working with some of the ideas put forward by our membership. Those concepts have been used to produce some of the logos above ( the black and white logo is one which represented CDRJS in 2009 and the simple mountain outline I developed as a temporary solution).

More feedback has been provided by membership and trainees and will help guide further development. If you are interested in the process and outcome, visit this site as I will post changes as they come along.

If you would like to provide input into this process and are not currently a Member of CDRJS, sign up and I will gratefully send you a link.

Funding for CDRJS

CDRJS would like to extend our thanks again to the organizations who have contributed financially to our continued operation this year:

City of Cranbrook
BC Gaming
Ministry of Tourism and the Office of the Solicitor General
Ministry of Public Safety and Emergency Services

It is important not to discount the hours of volunteer service provided by our board, facilitators and the committee member on the Humanity Network. Your work and contributions are greatly appreciated.

We would not have the success and opportunity to work with RJ referrals if it were not for the support of the local RCMP Detachments and Division E of the RCMP. Thanks!