News, Events & Resources

Hitting the Headlines

If you’re an avid reader, you may have seen pieces covering this work in the press. But in case you missed them, here are a few clippings and releases.

• “Punishing Native American Children: Truth and Reconciliation speaker at Concord's Restorative Justice organization”
  — Patch.com August 23, 2010
• “Boxborough Police offering new options to victims, offenders with C4RJ program”
  — Nixle.com August 21, 2010
• “Program reaches victims...” and photo of C4RJ Volunteer Rev. Dr. Barbara Smith-Moran with Justice Murray Sinclair, chairman of the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Smith-Moran recently volunteered at the event in Winnipeg, Canada, which used restorative justice processes to address harms caused by church- and government-sponsored schools that forcibly "educated" indigenous youth for more than a century. Click here for related event held on August 19, 2010.
  — Concord Journal August 12, 2010
• “[C4RJ Volunteer] Smith-Moran to tell of witnessing reconciliation for native peoples of Canada”
  — C4RJ Press Release August 4, 2010
• “Restorative Justice: Crime is a Violation of People and Relationships, not Just a Violation of Law”
  — Law Officer by Elizabeth Eidlitz (C4RJ Volunteer) June 16, 2010
• “[Concord] Residents finish training program”
  — Concord Journal June 3, 2010
• Emerson Hospital Features C4RJ Vice President Jeff Campbell (a self-described "professional community volunteer")
  — Emerson Corporator Connection May 2010
• “Spain Conference will Spotlight C4RJ”
  — Concord Journal May 6, 2010
• “Don't Bully the Bully”
  — Carlisle Mosquito April 16, 2010
• “First Parish [Westford] Grants Funds to C4RJ”
  — C4RJ Press Release February 4, 2010
• “Concord Police Chief Wetherbee and Deputy Macone to Retire”
  — Concord Journal January 27, 2010
• “Restorative Justice Comes of Age”
  — Littleton Independent December 10, 2009
• “Groton Police Dept. to Offer Community Approach to Wrongdoing”
  — Groton Herald November 27, 2009
• “Police to Offer New Option to Victims, Offender”
  — Westford Eagle August 27, 2009
• “Websites get more detailed”
  — Concord Journal August 6, 2009
• “Police face budget cut: Town could scale back Community Policing”
  — Concord Journal May 21, 2009
• “[Howard] Zehr to Speak…” — Concord Journal March 27, 2009
• “More communities offer victims ‘restorative justice’”
  — Boston Globe November 9, 2008
• “Program for crime victims expanded”
  — Boston Globe February 26, 2009