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Restorative and Transformative Justice

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Accountability doesn’t have to mean punishment. These resources explore alternative ways of responding to harm, conflict, and crisis—centred on healing, relationships, and community transformation, inside and outside of formal systems.

Equal Justice USA and especially their Resource Section

Creative Interventions and their Toolkit which is available in both English, Spanish, French and Maori

Just Practice Collaborative and their workbook Fumbling Toward Repair

The Transform Harm Resource Hub

Ahimsa Collective

European Forum for Restorative Justice

Abolitionists Toolbox

Vassar College has The Restorative Practice Center for Engaged Pluralism which hosts a Resource Section

Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice

Books

Whose Security Is It Anyway? A Toolkit to Address Institutional Violence in Nonprofit Organizations, Lara Brooks and Mariame Kabadesyuh

Saving Our Own Lives, Shira Hassan

Healing Resistance, Kazu Haga

Beyond Survival; Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement, edited by Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice, Mariame Kaba

Featured Hacks

These featured hacks highlight creative, practical solutions from harm reduction leaders on the ground. From DIY tools to clever workarounds, each one reflects the ingenuity, care, and real-world experience that keeps this movement alive. 

As discussed in the part of the site on preventing escalation, it is essential for harm reduction workers to stay present and remain centered and relatively calm during escalated events. This is one of the hardest things to do, but staying present and centered during any kind of escalated situation at your harm reduction site is essential to de-escalation.
Though not all harm reduction organizations or programs are in need of universal precautions or OSHA considerations, most are. It’s important when setting up a harm reduction space to take into consideration the important and real risks of harm reduction work. This includes the potential for entry and exposure to blood-borne pathogens as well as airborne pathogens.