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These trainings are for aspiring facilitators, including volunteers, who can work with community based agencies and schools that provide restorative services for responsible youth and impacted parties.

It includes interactive learning and role-playing allowing participants to practice how to facilitate basic diversion to court referred cases involving youth who have caused harm, parties that have been harmed, family members, and support people.

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Youth Mediation: A private and (usually) face-to-face meeting between those most affected by an incident to offer solutions to the dispute. Mediation offers an opportunity for youth to understand their behaviors and (as appropriate or if needed) receive consequences for their actions. It is also an opportunity for youth to express concern for their actions and choices with others involved and explore better decision making for the future. The mediator is impartial, neutral, and non-directive, and the participants work to create their own outcomes. Sample situations include threatening language, larceny, fights. 2026: 4/14,16,21,23 from 10am-noon. $200 (no prerequisite)

Truancy Mediation: A private and (usually) face-to-face meeting between those most affected by an offense (the school, youth, and family) and the person(s) who caused the truancy (the truant youth or a parent) with the facilitation of a trained mediator. The basic dialogue between the person(s) who caused harm and those most affected may explore what happened, who was affected, and how and gives voice to the most directly involved parties. The goals of the Truancy Mediation program are to promote improved school attendance and decreased absenteeism, return habitually truant students to a regular schedule of school attendance, increase students’ academic performance by improving attendance, teach skills that will improve family communication and provide skills that will enable students to be successful in school and in life. The program should also work to improve graduation from high school and reduction in the number of court filings by determining the reasons for the lack of attendance and providing education, intervention and accountability to the juveniles and their parents. 2026: 4/28 from 10am-noon. $50

Mediation to Arbitration (NEW): Modeled after the SC Community Juvenile Arbitration Program, Med-Arb is a hybrid process in which parties agree to first attempt to resolve their issues through mediation. If this does not lead to a resolution, the same individual who served as the mediator will then act as the arbitrator to make a binding decision. Learn the basics of arbitration. 2026: 4/30 from 10am-noon. $50

(aka Sentencing Circles)

Peer Accountability Circles - A peer justice process to develop a plan of action that addresses concerns of interested parties to prevent future crimes and address underlying causes of anti-social behavior while building a sense of community and its capacity for resolving conflict and promoting and sharing common values. Sentencing Circles provide an opportunity for the youth who caused harm to see first-hand the direct and indirect injuries caused by his/her offense. In this way, the youth who caused harm may see the reasons for the limits of social tolerance. Moreover, the youth who caused harm is provided with a constructive, proactive means of repairing the injuries caused by his/her offense, with the potential to improve the overall sense of self-worth of the youth who caused the harm. This can be an effective means of promoting the well-being of the youth who caused harm. The emphasis of PA Circles is not on punishment nor on rehabilitation; rather, it is on accountability. 2026: 3/10,12,17,19 from 10am-12noon. $200 (no prerequisite)

Family Group Conferencing - A private structured meeting between the person(s) who caused harm, those most affected (usually family) and there may be select support people like friends and counselors. FGC is about building partnerships within and around families to protect and support child and adult family members and advance their well-being.

This means that programs adopt a posture of working with families, that the involved agencies and community groups collaborate around particular family issues, and that the family and their relatives and other close supports cooperatively develop a plan for resolving the concerns. The FGC process is designed to create a forum in which families can have a meaningful voice over their affairs.

Thus, emphasis is given to preparing family group members and professionals, weighting conference participation toward the family, respecting the culture of the family, and ensuring timely approval and implementation of plans.

2026: upon request

Restorative Victim/Youth Conferencing (NEW - Building the Narrative from Australia!) This is a structured meeting between those that caused the harm, those harmed, (and sometimes) family, friends and community members in which they deal with the consequences of the offense and decide how best to repair the harm. Neither counseling nor a mediation process, conferencing is a “sensitive to those most affected, straightforward problem-solving method” that demonstrates how people can resolve their own problems when provided with a constructive forum to do so. By facing the full human impact of the harm done, the youth hear first-hand the depth of the impact experienced by those most affected. May be used for higher level offenses, even felonies.

2026: 5/12,14,19,21 from 10am-noon. $200 (prerequisite: experience in RJ)

Introducing RJ Circles in Community Service - Learn how to build intro and closing circles into your day with youth. Circles are built on caring relationships, expectation clarity, and opportunities for meaningful participation. In a circle, young people develop communication skills, and increase in empathy for one another. As they gain a greater understanding of other people's feelings, they strengthen their social and emotional skills. Circles foster cross-group friendships, which help eliminate or reduce negative expectations about inter-group interactions. 2026: 2/17 and 10/20 from 10am-12noon. $50 (no prerequisite)

Encouraging Harmed Parties into the RJ Process - Learn the right approaches, the right words, and the supporting tools needed to become successful at including "victims" and other harmed parties into your restorative process. Restorative justice encourages harmed parties to participate by giving them a voice in the process, allowing them to express their feelings and needs, and involving them in discussions about how to repair the harm caused. This approach aims to empower victims and help them regain a sense of control after experiencing an offense. 2026: 2/26 and 10/29 from 10am-12noon. $50 (prerequisite: experience with RJ)

Responsive Circles - Large Groups - Learn to hold a structured group meeting to process and respond to a conflict or incident which has resulted in disruption or harm, such as violation of a policy, rule or law. The circle process brings together those impacted who wish to engage in pro-active relationship building, conflict resolution, and other activities in which honest communications, relationship development, and community building are core desired outcomes. Rather than merely impose a consequence to the wrongdoer, or engage in assertive discipline, Responsive Circles provide everyone with a turn to speak and result in a deeper understanding of the hurt or incident and what an appropriate path forward should be. Circles reinforce social skills in youth, such as courtesy, mutual respect, listening and speaking skills, and empathy. 2026: 8/11,13,18,20 from 10am-12noon. $200 (no prerequisite)

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Restoring Youth Coalition North Carolina

Rycnc Trainings
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RYCNC
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on 1/1/2026