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Conferencing for Youth

Increasing Understanding to Enhance Intervention

by Robert Owens, Alice Lewis, Linda Baker & Cindy Male (2004). A resource funded by Ontario's Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services.

This 17-page booklet is the latest addition to the popular SIGMA series: applied essential for the helping professions from the Centre for Children and Families in the Justice System. It contains everything you need to know to convene and facilitate a case conference or a restorative justice conference including knowing when to use which method, who is invited, steps for preparation and follow-up, and tips for facilitation.

Table of Contents

• What you need to know

• When are different types of conferencing used?

  • Case conferencing

  • Restorative justice

• Who determined the conference?

• Who is invited?

• Restorative justice

• Models of conferencing

• Tips for facilitating a case conference

• Tips for facilitating a restorative justice conference

• Convening a case conference

• The case conference planner

• Convening a restorative justice conference

• Potential applications for restorative justice conferences

• References

Ordering Information

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SIGMA Series

Check out the other four booklets in the SIGMA series:

• Peer-to-Peer Aggression in Residential Settings ---> available for download

• Adolescent Depression and Suicide

• Adolescent Relationship Violence

• Ambiguous Loss in Adolescents ---> available for download