{"id":33422,"date":"2017-05-12T10:24:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T14:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=33422"},"modified":"2017-07-05T15:08:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T19:08:27","slug":"zehr-institute-restorative-justice-hosts-online-course-police-community-partnerships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/zehr-institute-restorative-justice-hosts-online-course-police-community-partnerships\/","title":{"rendered":"Zehr Institute of Restorative Justice hosts online course on police-community partnerships"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>This course has been postponed until fall 2017. Please contact Patience Kamau, Zehr Institute program director, at patience.kamau@emu.edu for more information.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zehr-institute.org\">Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice<\/a> announces a six-session course about police and community justice partnerships this summer. The course will be co-taught by Officer Vanessa Westley, a 25-year veteran with the Chicago Police Department, and Lt. Kurt Boshart, who recently retired after 28 years in the Harrisonburg (Va.) Police Department, where he led the department&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harrisonburgva.gov\/hpd-restorative-justice\">restorative justice program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Institute co-directors Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/zehr-institute.org\/staff\/howard-zehr\/\">Howard Zehr<\/a> and Dr.<a href=\"http:\/\/zehr-institute.org\/staff\/carl-stauffer\/\">Carl Stauffer<\/a> will also join some sessions. The Zehr Institute is a program of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/cjp\">Center for Justice and Peacebuilding<\/a> at Eastern Mennonite University.<\/p>\n<p>The course will begin <span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Wednesday, June 28, from 3-4:30 p.m.<\/span><\/span> (EST) Eastern Standard Time and continue through five consecutive Wednesdays. The final class will be Aug. 2. Cost is $99 (no additional fees).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven issues around policing in this country, we are seeing increasing interest among both police departments and communities in restorative justice,\u201d says Zehr. \u201cRestorative justice offers a more positive way to approach wrongdoing, but also possibilities for transforming police\/community relationships. \u00a0This online course offers an opportunity to explore these possibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"highlight highlight-right\">To learn more about the course, click <a href=\"http:\/\/zehr-institute.org\/event\/law-enforcement-through-restorative-justice-peacebuilding-in-the-community\/\">here<\/a>. <\/aside>\n<p>The course will be an introduction into restorative justice with an emphasis on its applications in law enforcement. Participants will explore innovative ways to incorporate restorative justice within an agency and in collaboration with their communities. Through presentations and interactive discussions, examples of implementation, including case studies in many police agencies throughout the United States, will be showcased.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31259\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31259\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/01\/top-2016-reads-center-justice-peacebuilding\/20161101-police-palaver-planning-001-1024x683\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31259\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-31259 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/01\/20161101-Police-Palaver-planning-001-1024x683-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/01\/20161101-Police-Palaver-planning-001-1024x683-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/01\/20161101-Police-Palaver-planning-001-1024x683-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/01\/20161101-Police-Palaver-planning-001-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31259\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professors Carl Stauffer and Howard Zehr, co-directors of the Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice with Lt. Kurt Boshart, of the Harrisonburg (Va.) Police Department. (Photo by Andrew Strack)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The course builds upon a November 2016 <a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2016\/11\/restorative-justice-retreat-draws-law-enforcement-practitioners-networking-resources-planning\/\">restorative justice retreat<\/a> co-hosted by the Zehr Institute and Harrisonburg Police Department in Virginia. Agencies from four states \u2014 California, Illinois, Massachusetts and Virginia \u2014 were represented by executive leadership, who have led or continued to lead implementation of restorative justice practices in their respective jurisdictions. Expert practitioners also attended, including Zehr. [Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2016\/11\/police-departments-join-zehr-institute-restorative-justice-retreat\/\">preview<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2016\/11\/restorative-justice-retreat-draws-law-enforcement-practitioners-networking-resources-planning\/\">coverage<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p>Participants were in agreement that utilizing restorative justice principles\u2014being proactive, using good communication skills, building relationships and social capital by empowering and including community members \u2014 called for a holistic culture shift from \u201cthe top down and back up,\u201d from new recruits to administration, said Chief Joe Garza, Reedley (Ca.) Police Department. At the same time, they agreed that many police departments, and individual officers, are already doing this kind of outreach, though perhaps under a different name.<\/p>\n<p>Westley is currently program manager for the \u201cBridging the Divide,\u201d a joint program of the Chicago PD and the Metro YMCA. She is also special projects coordinator for the Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy Revitalization effort launched in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Through DePaul University\u2019s Center for Urban Education, she leads the community engagement training program, and is also\u00a0 a restorative justice and \u201cArt of Hosting\u201d practitioner and trainer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This course has been postponed until fall 2017. Please contact Patience Kamau, Zehr Institute program director, at patience.kamau@emu.edu for more information. The Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice announces a six-session <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/zehr-institute-restorative-justice-hosts-online-course-police-community-partnerships\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Zehr Institute of Restorative Justice hosts online course on police-community partnerships<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359,12503,17562,8845,14145,5603,6287],"tags":[13825,5974,5690,17604],"feature":[17427,17241],"class_list":["post-33422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-applied-social-sciences","category-cjp","category-digest","category-emu-at-lancaster","category-peacebuilding-and-development","category-psychology","category-social-work","tag-carl-stauffer","tag-howard-zehr","tag-peacebuilding","tag-restoratvie-justice","feature-emu-home-page-feature","feature-news-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Zehr Institute of Restorative Justice hosts online course on police-community partnerships - EMU News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/zehr-institute-restorative-justice-hosts-online-course-police-community-partnerships\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zehr Institute of Restorative Justice hosts online course on police-community partnerships - EMU News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This course has been postponed until fall 2017. 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