The Owen Sound & Area Family YMCA’s Youth Justice Circle Program now has resources available to lend. A collection of books, videos, DVDs and discussion guides are available for our volunteer facilitators, steering committee members and community partners (and their staff) to borrow.

Whether you’re looking for additional knowledge or simply a ‘refresher’ this selection will interest you.

All materials have a restorative justice focus, and many perspectives are addressed:

• Spiritual roots and aboriginal roots
• Benefits, statistics and evaluation
• Theory and science
• Current uses and future trends
• Use with youth and with adults
• Victim stories and offender stories
• Tips for facilitators
  
  

“A good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting”.

H. D. Thoreau

(With thanks to Special Project funding from the Ministry of the Attorney General!)