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Learn de-escalation and intervention techniques at Green Dot bystander training

February 22, 2020Last updated March 13, 2020 by Randi B. Hagi

Say you’re at a restaurant when you notice two women sitting at the bar. They look uncomfortable – an apparent stranger has been talking to them for about 10 minutes,

STAR program works with National Park Service on restorative justice, trauma and healing

November 20, 2019Last updated August 25, 2020 by Lauren Jefferson and Randi B. Hagi

“It takes courage to try to address harms at the systemic level, such as the land theft that is at the foundation of the service; at the institutional level, like

Green Dot enters phase II: Student leaders at EMU receive proactive bystander training

September 17, 2019Last updated September 17, 2019 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

Student leaders at Eastern Mennonite University have begun receiving Green Dot proactive bystander training. During their week-long orientation, 34 community advisors and pastoral assistants participated in the training. This was

CJP grad student secures funding for, develops first campus community RJ training

January 2, 2019Last updated January 2, 2019 by Lauren Jefferson

After spending four years at a university known worldwide for its teachings around restorative justice, Katrina Poplett developed a vision for how the institution might better educate its own campus

Green Dot is coming: EMU group to attend initial instructor training

December 14, 2018Last updated April 8, 2019 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

Eastern Mennonite University is gearing up for implementation of Green Dot, a proactive bystander training. Five staff will attend a multi-day instructor training this month. The phased roll-out will begin

Take Back the Night creates space to connect and be heard, believed and supported

November 9, 2018Last updated November 12, 2018 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

The t-shirts made for Take Back the Night (TBTN) events at Eastern Mennonite University Oct. 31-Nov. 2 may have been seen as a humorous twist on a milk ad campaign,

Tributes by faculty and staff for 2018 Cords of Distinction honorees

May 9, 2018Last updated May 9, 2018 by Compiled by Bernadette Griffith

Ten graduating seniors were honored as Cords of Distinction recipients in a ceremony Saturday afternoon, May 5, 2018, at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU). Faculty, staff and fellow students nominated the

EMU awarded $300,000 Department of Justice grant

February 14, 2018Last updated March 14, 2018 by Lauren Jefferson

Eastern Mennonite University has named Leda Werner as the project coordinator of a new grant funded by the U.S. Department of Justice that focuses on connecting with community partners to

Symposium and lecture by Catholic victims advocate Tom Doyle focuses on institutional harms and healing

November 14, 2016Last updated November 15, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

Capping a month-long series of events around the topic of healthy sexuality and sexual violence, Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) welcomed Father Tom Doyle, a Roman Catholic sexual abuse victim advocate,

‘Christianity amid systemic racism is an oxymoron’: Visiting pastor Cyneatha Millsaps challenges EMU community

September 27, 2016Last updated October 17, 2016 by Walt Wiltschek

Cyneatha Millsaps is lead pastor of Community Mennonite Church in the Chicago suburb of Markham, Illinois, and multicultural liaison/consultant for Illinois Mennonite Conference. She’s a community activist and advocate for

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