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Fraser Region Community Justice Initiatives AssociationVictim Offender Mediation ProgramContact:Sandi Bergen or David GustafsonTarget Group:Victims, offender, and their families impacted by serious andviolent crime throughout BC and the YukonGoals and Objectives: To meet the needs for healing and closure for peopleresponsible for or harmed by the most serious and violentcrime.Program Model: Facilitated Therapeutic Dialogue, Applied Restorative JusticeReferral Source(s): Victim assistance providers, National Parole Board,Correctional Service of Canada staff, Therapists, NativeElders, religious leadersReferral Types: Serious and violent offences (e.g. murder, rape)Support/ Funding: Correctional Services of CanadaStaffing Structure: Two full-timeVolunteers Involved:NoneYears in Operation: 12Indicators of Success:Challenges/ Obstacles:Therapeutic gains (victim trauma recovery and offenderempathy development); high participant satisfaction inobjective evaluations; new understanding; victims andoffenders encountered as real people; responsibility taken;healing of individuals and relationships.Highly controversial nature of work; “politicization”, andterritorial claims.Education for PeacebuildingContact:Eric Sutzman or Catherine BargenTarget Group:Goals and Objectives:Program Model:Referral Source(s):Referral Type9:Support/ Funding:Staffing Structure:Volunteers Involved:Years in Operation: 2Partners Involved: Langley School DistrictLangley School DistrictTo build capacity for respectful, peacemaking, andrestorative justice interventions at every level in the LangleySchool District educational hierarchies, thereby reducing theincidence of adversarial, punitive, and retributive response toconflicts and tensions that arise.Applied Restorative Action (varied by situation)Any person in the Langley School DistrictAll types of conflict with real harmGrants; School District funding; private donationsOne full-time equivalentMany in various schoolsTraining:Five day training in Restorative Justice