Restorative Practices Advisory Committees:
- Promote the creation, expansion and maintenance of restorative practices within communities, local justice systems, schools, family courts, child protection systems, detention facilities and other areas.
- Use restorative practices in decision-making and come to a consensus when developing, expanding, and maintaining restorative practices criteria and referral processes.
- Review proposals for community initiatives and create proposals for grant funding.
- Recruit, train and incentivize participation of committee members reflecting equitable representation of restorative initiatives, ethnicities, system partners, victims of crime and justice impacted individuals.
- May request grant funds to help with a per diem for community members, parents, youth and justice-impacted people participating in the committee.
- Provide restorative practices training for all committee members annually.
- Meet regularly to maintain and expand the usage of restorative practices.
- Notify the Office of Restorative Practices (ORP) when the committee will meet and come to consensus on funding initiatives.
