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Our groundbreaking report shares what happens when we focus on healing and how to get there. We offer specific details on how to build programs utilizing restorative & healing justice practices to address intimate partner violence. We name stumbling blocks so others don’t have to trip on the same rocks we did. We recommend ways forward when violence hurts our families and communities.
Our work demonstrates that restorative practices are a viable option worth building. When we invest in programs and long-term outcomes, transformation is possible.
Our goal is intergenerational well-being and long-term transformation. Thank you for joining us in this work. We are excited you are here.
After 5 years of Collaborative work, in May 2025 we held a convening to gather practitioners, share strategies, and further interventions using restorative & healing justice practices to address intimate partner violence. You can see learnings from our Collaborative work and the convening in these graphic recordings.
Click Images to View Full ScreenJoin us in addressing intimate partner violence (IPV) by building non-carceral responses to further accountability and healing. These resources can support your program development, learning, and movement building toward safety alongside decarceration.
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AdvoChat
AdvoChat: Restoring Healing & Transforming Communities While Addressing Intimate Partner Violence by Charlene Allen, Katia Amaya-Salinas, Karolin Betances, Alvaro Pinzon, Purvi Shah, Catherine Shugrue dos Santos, and Quentin Walcott explains the Collaborative’s work to address IPV through a variety of restorative approaches
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Supporting Survivors in Community
Supporting Survivors in Community Restorative Approaches in Anti-Violence Work shares research on restorative approaches from Collaborative Co-Facilitators Charlene Allen & Purvi Shah and former Collaborative member Erika Sasson
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Seeding Generations
Seeding Generations: New Strategies Towards Services for People who Abuse by Purvi Shah centers the voices of survivors and people who caused harm in sharing recommendations for transformative solutions; concrete innovations in accountability with healing; and, integration of services towards safety, wellness, and impact
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Seeding Generations Resources Grid
Seeding Generations Resources Grid. Companion to the Seeding Generations report, this tool is a starting place for research, conversation, and learning about interventions for people who cause harm
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Using Restorative Approaches to Address IPV
Using Restorative Approaches to Address Intimate Partner Violence: A New York City Blueprint by Charlene Allen & Erika Sasson expands the knowledge of restorative practices addressing IPV and advocates for increasing options for survivors and their families: its advocacy for funding community-based practitioners helped lead to our Collaborative
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Restorative Justice and Intimate Partner Violence
Restorative Justice and Intimate Partner Violence: A Summary of Findings from Two Reports by Hillary Packer provides an overview of national and NYC-based restorative approaches to IPV
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Building Multiple Pathways to Healing
Building Multiple Pathways to Healing, Safety, and Accountability to Address Intimate Partner Violence by Brittany R. Davis, Rebecca Thomforde Hauser, Heaven Berhane, Gene Johnson, Saloni Sethi, Bea Hanson, Devin Deane, and Karolin Betances outlines programming options for people who cause harm both within and outside of the criminal legal system as well as practice implications for the field
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A New Nonmandated Program for People Who Cause IPV
A New Nonmandated Program for People Who Cause Intimate Partner Violence: Findings from an Implementation Assessment in New York City by Storm Ervin, Susan Nembhard, and Claudia Nmai provides data on the Respect and Responsibility demonstration project (offered by Collaborative members RISE Project and Rising Ground as well as the Urban Resource Institute), showing that this approach has promise and is useful to maintain and build
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Violence against Black women by way of domestic abuse
Violence against Black women by way of domestic abuse includes expertise from Collaborative Co-Facilitator Charlene Allen from 23:24-26:55
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Outside the Man Box: The education of domestic violence offenders
Outside the Man Box: The education of domestic violence offenders by Tracy O’Neill does a deep dive into abusive partner interventions programs and includes insights from Collaborative member Danny Salim from Arab-American Family Support Center & Collaborative Co-Facilitator Purvi Shah
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NYC Pledged to Fund Programs to Stop Domestic Violence
New York City Pledged to Fund Programs to Stop Domestic Violence Without Involving the Legal System. But There’s Disagreement About How to Do it by Roshan Abraham shares insights from Margarita Guzmán, Executive Director of Collaborative member, Violence Intervention Program; Quentin Walcott, Executive Director of Collaborative member, CONNECT; and Collaborative Co-Facilitators Charlene Allen & Purvi Shah
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What Is Restorative Justice?
What Is Restorative Justice? by Amanda Kippert, offers expertise from Margarita Guzmán, Executive Director of Collaborative member, Violence Intervention Program
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Upstream city
Upstream City: Developing Restorative Pathways to Safety by Nora McCarthy includes wisdom from Collaborative Co-Facilitator Purvi Shah and the Collaborative’s work
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Play the Game
Play the Game, a young adult novel by Charlene Allen, is a different kind of whodunnit – more like, who didn't do it – about friendship and first love, and what it means to name and claim justice. And it's also about video games!