25-WORD DESCRIPTION:
A restorative justice organization providing programming in institutional and community settings. We have served more than 22,000 justice-involved individuals working to transform harm to healing and hope.
HOW WE USE YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS:
- $25 purchases a reentry support materials for returning citizens.
- $50 provides essential reentry items and support for returning citizens in their transition to our community.
- $100 provides 2 hours of our restorative justice circles of support for those impacted by harm/crime in our community.
A STORY FROM OUR AGENCY:
A current participant is taking his final steps returning to the community and the Community Justice Center has been with him each step of the way. This individual has spent 10 years in the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (NDCS). He attended CJC’s Restorative Justice Intervention program, attended and became a facilitator for CJC’s “Level Up” gang desistance program within NDCS, and is an Intentional Peer Support peer and a 5 Keys facilitator within facilities as well. He began his commitment to change while incarcerated and began searching for programming to improve his own perspective and future. His hard work and commitment to responsibility and accountability helped form him into a mentor to many other incarcerated individuals.
Upon reaching the Community Corrections Center (his last stop to return home) CJC assisted him with job search skills (resume, navigating job searches and interviews), transportation to interviews which resulted in his employment. CJC assisted with work clothing and supported transportation to and from his job. He has remained a constant and positive presence at CJC’s weekly Circles of Support and serves as a peer mentor to other individuals. He is scheduled to return home in June and CJC will remain steadfast in his successful transition. He hopes to one day work with CJC and provide education to other young men facing some of the same issues he once faced while providing them the perspective and skills that they can do so without making the same mistakes he once made.
ADDRESS/PHONE:
211 N. 14th Street, Ste. 314
Lincoln, NE 68508
402-277-8111
