What
BRITE Collaborative offers people the opportunity utilize restorative interventions to cultivate community and come together to navigate harm and repair with dignity
What is Restorative Justice?
Restorative justice asks the simple questions: What happened? Who was impacted? And what repair is needed to move forward? Restorative justice offers a genuine opportunity for people to take accountability for the harm they have caused while giving those who have been harmed a voice in the process.
What is Restorative Practices?
Restorative practices occur on a continuum from informal to formal and are used both proactively, to build healthy relationships and community, and/or responsively, to respond to conflict, wrongdoing or crimes.
~International Institute for Restorative Practices
Our Continuum of Restorative Interventions
In partnership with municipalities, schools, and other communities we offer restorative interventions from informal to formal to build relationships and repair harm when needed.
How
BRITE CO can help you resolve your conflict OR train your community to transform conflict while deepening your relationships.
Cultivating Restorative Communities thru Training
Individuals
Our community restorative justice programs are fully supported by our highly skilled and trained volunteers. When you join our BRITE Collaborative community, you are given an opportunity to gain skills you can use while changing lives of at-risk people in our community. Click here to learn more!
Schools
BRITE Collaborative school district staff and students to use restorative principles and practices to create a restorative culture in their school community. Click here to learn more!
Workplaces
People work, live, and play together better in environments that support healthy relationships. Various community agencies and workplaces partner with BRITE CO to assess their organizational values and identify how to catalyze and sustain a restorative culture. Click here to learn more!
Parents & Families
Designed for parents, guardians and caregivers of children of all ages, it aims to be a shared, supportive, participatory experience inviting us all to look at parenting through a restorative lens. Click here to learn more!
Contact
Ramone Sanders
Deputy Director
Community Restorative Justice Programs
Our programs offer alternative interventions to the traditional criminal justice system. They are also available to any community who needs assistance resolving conflict.
Longmont Community Justice Partnership
For over 20 years, Longmont Community Justice Partnership (LCJP), now a program under BRITE Collaborative, has worked in close partnership with the City of Longmont to provide pre-file deflection restorative justice for youth and adults. Learn more about our 30 year partnership here.
Contact
Alejandro Rodriguez
Bilingual Case Coordinator
Community Group Conferencing
This intervention is the heart of BRITE CO and restorative justice. Available through referrals from Longmont Public Safety and St. Vrain Valley School District, we can also receive referrals from other organizations, churches, workplaces, and other schools to help them resolve a significant harm. The community comes together in a 2-3 hour process to discuss the harm that occurred and what is needed to move forward. You can learn more here.
Your Story, Your Power
All communities experience conflict. Conflict can bring us closer together, build trust, and strengthen relationships. If your community is experiencing conflict and you need support to move forward, BRITE CO can assist you with a community restorative justice process.
Reintegration Contracting and Circles
We can help support a community to reintegrate after the harm has occurred. That support can look like supporting an individual with strengths-based contracted agreement to help address the needs of the community. It can also be through the facilitation of a circle to welcome back or reintegrate post-conflict.
BRITE CO supports community based organizations and schools, particularly those working with at-risk populations, to implement restorative approaches to relationship building, conflict, and culture building. Through integrating restorative approaches within our community we can help mitigate the risk of vulnerable populations becoming involved with the criminal justice system.
