Vidia Negrea, director of Community Service Foundation (CSF) Hungary, has been working in conjunction with the Hungarian Ministry of Justice, the city of Budapest, the Sycamore Tree Project of Prison Fellowship International and the SOS Children’s Village to spread the practices throughout the country in education, criminal justice and social services. This article includes an interview with Negrea and stories about implementation.

Script for facilitators of restorative conferences.

Deanna Webb | 2010-01-07 |

This article by Deanna L. Webb, an eighth-grade special education teacher at a middle school in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA, and a June 2009 IIRP Master of Restorative Practices and Education recipient, talks about how her creative, day-to-day implementation of restorative practices have helped make her classroom a thriving community where staff and students help each other to learn and grow.

Intellectually stimulating and soul-nourishing, the IIRP's October 2009 conference was a celebration of restorative practices created by everyone who attended, whether or not they presented a session. This article by Laura Mirsky includes coverage of the plenary sessions and a random selection of breakout sessions.

The Children’s Aid Society of New York is successfully employing restorative practices in its work with youth in several of the city’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods. This article by Abbey J. Porter and Laura Mirsky includes comments from Ana Bermudez, director of The Children’s Aid Society’s juvenile justice programs, as well as stories about how the practices are being implemented.

“The Disciples of BETHLEHEM: Restorative Practice Is Transforming Durham Catholic District School Board” is an article by Mike O’Neill, vice principal, St. Catherine of Sienna Catholic School, Durham Catholic District School Board. See: http://www.cpco.on.ca/News/PrincipalConnections/PastIssues/Vol13/Issue1/Bethlehem.pdf

Restorative practices are credited for reducing suspensions in the Durham District School Board. Suspension rates for the first term of the 2009-2010 school year are lower in both secondary and elementary schools, as reported in the Durham News. See: http://newsdurhamregion.com/news/education/article/147268

The January 19, 2010 program, Metro Morning Parenting, hosted by Karen Horsman, broadcast part two of a piece about restorative practices in schools. This segment focused on an anti-bullying program at the Durham District School Board’s Sinclair High School, in Whitby, Ontario, which employs talking circles to impart empathy and respect. The program features an interview with Sinclair’s vice principal Susan Jones. IIRP Canada director Bruce Schenk is bringing restorative practices to the Durham District School Board. To listen to the piece, go to: http://www.cbc.ca/metromorning/2010/01/restorative_practices_2_runs_3.html

The January 12, 2010 program, Metro Morning Parenting, hosted by Karen Horsman, broadcast a piece about restorative practices in schools, featuring an interview with Kendra Godin Svoboda, a teacher with the Durham District School Board. The page links to the IIRP website. To listen to the piece, go to: http://www.cbc.ca/metromorning/2010/01/restorative_practices_1_runs_3.html.

The focus of PASAP is "assisting youth who are at-risk to find the strength in overcoming the barriers to success." The conference is March 7, 8, and 9, 2010 at the Penn Stater Conference Center, in State College, PA. 2010 marks the 25th year of the PASAP and the 20th conference.