School & Youth Conflicts
Empowering and Restorative
Youth and School Conflicts
Since 2018, KCDRC has brought peer mediation and restorative practices to Showalter Middle School in Tukwila and has expanded our Youth Program to Foster High School.
This partnership is funded by Best Starts for Kids to:
- Increase staff knowledge, abilities, and practice related to racial equity, restorative justice, a whole-child approach, meaningful family engagement, and cross-cultural communication
- Expanded family engagement, through building relationships, using family input, providing leadership opportunities, and restorative justice processes
- Empowered students through leadership of restorative circles, research, professional development, and community activism
Do you have a conflict in school?
Restorative practices and mediation are more effective approaches to discipline than detention or suspension. Restorative practices include everyone affected by or involved in a school incident. It offers an opportunity for the impact of the event to be discussed, for the students at fault to take responsibility and make amends, and for anyone harmed to have a voice in how to make things right.
Contact us to request assistance with a school-related incident. We will coordinate with the school to arrange their participation along with others involved. We also work with groups in schools that are having challenges. We can do a group mediation that promotes dialogue and decision-making. We can also provide training for your school.
“Peer mediation helps to resolve conflicts so school can be a safe place.”
“When students have problems, now they know who to go to so it doesn’t escalate.”