Learn to facilitate restorative dialogue, a process of accountability and healing for those involved in violations and crime. Advoz seeks volunteers to facilitate restorative dialogue with young offenders and those they've harmed. In addition to learning the conferencing process and practicing it through role plays, trainees will learn about the justice system, about victims' rights and needs, ethics, and communication skills. Find out why 9 out of 10 victims and offenders are glad they did it.
Course Content Includes: Restorative Practices Skill-Building; Harm, Victimization & Shame; Adolescent Development; Participant Outreach; Conferencing Facilitation and Role-Playing; Facilitating Online, Confidentiality and Ethics.
To complete this training, you must complete the Advoz Training Working with Conflict, Communication & Culture. You must register for each separately.
CEUs will be available for social workers, professional counselors, and marriage and family therapists.
This is an asynchronous course that will require 2-3 hours of self-directed learning between each Zoom session.
Note, to qualify for the Volunteer Rate, we ask that you: 1) have an interest, passion and essential skills for listening and working with people, 2) be available 3+ hours average/month over the next 1-2 years, 3) complete the introductory course in Conflict, Communication & Culture, 4) apply to become a facilitator/mediator at this link, and 5) live or have recently lived within commute-able distance of Advoz (South Central/Southeastern PA). If further away, you could still be eligible but primarily only as a co-facilitator for online cases.
