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A teacher facilitates an impromptu meeting with three students to solve a classroom problem.

A formal conference brings together an offending student with those affected by her behavior—to discuss how people have been affected and decide how to repair the harm.

SaferSanerSchools offers training, print materials and videos to teach new ways of responding to problem behavior which simultaneously:

• hold young people accountable
• enhance relationships among students, faculty, administrators and parents
• build a sense of community in the school

SaferSanerSchools has developed from the experience of the Community Service Foundation (CSF) which, since 1977, has successfully fostered positive behavior among the delinquent and other troubled youth who attend its eight schools in southeastern Pennsylvania.

SaferSanerSchools is associated with Real Justice®, an international program which has trained people from many countries in a formal restorative practice called "conferencing." Real Justice conferences, also called family group conferences, restorative justice conferences and similar names, originated as a response to juvenile crime. Conferencing is a new victim-sensitive approach to addressing wrongdoing in a variety of settings in a variety of ways.