Circles of Support and Accountability
Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) attempts to enhance the safety of communities by reducing the risk of re-offense by released high-risk offenders. CoSA Winnipeg CoSA Toronto CoSA Saskatchewan CoSA Calgary
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Victims' Voice seeks to address the revictimization of victims in the criminal justice system, to create understanding about victims among practitioners who work within the system and to give emotional and informational support directly to victims through victim-centered programs.
Victims' Voice does this by offering training programs about understanding victims of crime and by participating in advocating for victims' rights.
To promote justice policies that recognize crime as harm against persons, and that suggest responses that are victim sensitive, promote offender responsibility to make things as right as possible and engender community participation and support.
Connection
To promote interaction and dialogue between programs and institutions with similar restorative justice goals and processes, to provide a place for mutual challenge, support and encouragement.
Education
To promote awareness within the Mennonite constituency and in the general public of restorative justice values, principles and practices and encourage application of them in specific contexts.
Research
To gather pertinent emerging information regarding all aspects of RJ in a national sense and making any useful information available to the relevant persons and programs.
Through drama, story, and discussion the Bethany Players, from Bethany College and the Restorative Justice and Victim’s Voice programs of Mennonite Central Committee are partnering to present “Re:connections,” a drama about the struggle to find life for all who are affected by a criminal act of violence.
Violence forces everyone involved to have a conversation. The only real choice is to have it together or separately. In this case the wife of the murdered man, the murderer and a local minister decide to engage… in an unlikely conversation.
For more information contact: 1-888-622-6337 (MCC) or 1-866-772-2175 (Bethany)
MCC's Aboriginal Neighbours program works to repair the broken relationships between broader Canadian society and Aboriginal peoples. MCC pursues this goal as partners in God's work of reconciliation in three ways:
Dialogue
Activities that promote respectful understanding across cultures. This includes the production of educational materials, learning exchanges, and longer–term placements of non-Aboriginal people in First Nation settings.
Advocacy
MCC attempts to stand with Aboriginal peoples who are marginalized by governments or corporations. It does so through direct advocacy when invited and by participation in the interchurch KAIROS: Aboriginal Rights Committee.
Community Building Support
MCC assists some Aboriginal communities in the preparation of community economic development plans and places volunteers in community development projects. MCC is also a partner in the administration of the Jubilee Fund which issues grants for education and other projects.
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Here are the contacts and information for programs that MCCC works with across Canada.
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