RJOY was founded in 2005. RJOY works from an anti-racist, anti-bias lens to promote institutional shifts toward restorative approaches. We provide education, training, and technical assistance and collaboratively launch demonstration programs with our school, community, juvenile justice, and research partners. RJOY offers trainings, youth internship programs, restorative justice in schools with a focus on truth-telling and racial healing.
Restorative Justice (RJ) is a set of principles, a philosophy, focused on mending broken relationships to create a better future. It is a fundamental shift in the way that we think about and do justice, in the way that we do community. What happens when we stop thinking about justice as “an eye for an eye”? What happens when we think about harm in ways that don’t involve retaliation or vengeance, but healing and transformation?