We’re on a mission to give survivors of sexual harm
access to restorative justice.
The Problem:
Sexual violence harms individuals, communities, and workplaces alike. Survivors lack safe spaces to be heard and supported, while those who cause harm rarely have opportunities to take accountability in meaningful ways. These gaps leave trauma unaddressed, relationships strained, and cultures of silence intact.
The Failure of Punitive Responses:
Survivors have the option of seeking a criminal prosecution, a lawsuit, a human resource investigation in workplace settings, and a Title IX investigation in school settings. These interventions focus on the person who caused harm: identifying which rule was broken, proving guilt, and imposing a punishment. This approach exacerbates the trauma of survivors as well as the problematic behavior of people who cause sexual harm.
The Solution:
Just People offers restorative pathways that bring healing, accountability, and community support into the response to sexual harm. Through facilitated dialogues, circles, and trainings, we create spaces where survivors voices and needs are at the center of the process, where those who caused harm can take responsibility, and where relationships and cultures can begin to repair.
Our Services
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Voluntary, intentional conversations between people who have been victimized and people who have caused harm. This could be a 1-1 facilitated dialogue or a facilitated circle process with everyone involved (and their support people).
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People often do not know what to do or how to respond after someone in their life has experienced sexual harm. We help individual survivors gather their friends, family and community members to support their healing process.
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“Survivors of violence, who know in their bones the truths that many others would prefer not to know, can lead the way to a new understanding of justice. The first step is simply to ask survivors what would make things right - or as right as possible - for them. This sounds like such a reasonable thing to do, but in practice, it is hardly ever done. Listening, therefore, turns out to be a radical act.”
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Tax deductible gifts can be made via our fiscal sponsor, Social Good Fund, to help us launch and grow our programs and provide free restorative processes to survivors of sexual violence.