Julia Steiny, a Rhode Island author and education consultant spoke on the Struggling Teenagers weekly radio program. On L.A. Talk Radio, she discussed with host Lon Woodbury how restorative practices and mental health collaborate to produce a new area of healing in institutions.
Background
Director and Founder of the Youth Restoration Project (YRP) in Rhode Island, Julia Steiny is a licensed trainer for the International Institute for Restorative Practices and has certificates from the Suffolk Center for Restorative Justice and the B.E.S.T. trainers. She first developed her ideas on Restorative Justice in 2007 after returning home from a trip to Belfast, Northern Ireland. There she learned about how the concept of "restoration" had begun to heal a city that had been dominated by a punitive justice model.
Her school in Rhode Island educates parents on how they can replace the common practice of punishment by training young people in new ways to participate in the life of the community and move away from external control to interior self-command.
How Restorative Practices And Mental Health Practices Can Help Struggling Teens
The radio program guest clarified how she was able to take a concept that originated from ancient techniques of council circles in New Zealand and Australia, along with Indigenous Native American practices, and use it to help at-risk adolescents realize the effects of their actions when they injured others in some way.
She contrasted the two primary therapies that were made use of to bring back discipline and order in a variety of schools: Positive Behavior Interventions & Systems (PBIS) and Restorative Practices. While PBIS does make the regulations clear to kids and offers proactive procedures like praising them for behaving appropriately, it does not stress deterrence in the same way that Restorative Practices does. The outcome is that PBIS is a lot more focused on ironing out troubles after they happen instead of stopping them from occurring to begin with.
She also discussed the difference between Restorative Justice and Restorative Practices. While Restorative Justice works with recovering from the results of bad behavior by initiating a dialogue between victim and perpetrators in the presence of their peers, Restorative Practices are much more focused on developing harmonious relationships in the first place through self-controls like making use of" I" statements, circling up, and preserving area.
During the course of the interview, she described how giving children a voice was the central dynamic that created highly positive change. She described numerous aspects of how the Restorative Practice and Mental Health model worked in teaching ethical conduct, increasing social interpersonal skills, and taking personal responsibility in identifying what harm had been done and what needed to be done to repair it.
Background
Director and Founder of the Youth Restoration Project (YRP) in Rhode Island, Julia Steiny is a licensed trainer for the International Institute for Restorative Practices and has certificates from the Suffolk Center for Restorative Justice and the B.E.S.T. trainers. She first developed her ideas on Restorative Justice in 2007 after returning home from a trip to Belfast, Northern Ireland. There she learned about how the concept of "restoration" had begun to heal a city that had been dominated by a punitive justice model.
Her school in Rhode Island educates parents on how they can replace the common practice of punishment by training young people in new ways to participate in the life of the community and move away from external control to interior self-command.
How Restorative Practices And Mental Health Practices Can Help Struggling Teens
The radio program guest clarified how she was able to take a concept that originated from ancient techniques of council circles in New Zealand and Australia, along with Indigenous Native American practices, and use it to help at-risk adolescents realize the effects of their actions when they injured others in some way.
She contrasted the two primary therapies that were made use of to bring back discipline and order in a variety of schools: Positive Behavior Interventions & Systems (PBIS) and Restorative Practices. While PBIS does make the regulations clear to kids and offers proactive procedures like praising them for behaving appropriately, it does not stress deterrence in the same way that Restorative Practices does. The outcome is that PBIS is a lot more focused on ironing out troubles after they happen instead of stopping them from occurring to begin with.
She also discussed the difference between Restorative Justice and Restorative Practices. While Restorative Justice works with recovering from the results of bad behavior by initiating a dialogue between victim and perpetrators in the presence of their peers, Restorative Practices are much more focused on developing harmonious relationships in the first place through self-controls like making use of" I" statements, circling up, and preserving area.
During the course of the interview, she described how giving children a voice was the central dynamic that created highly positive change. She described numerous aspects of how the Restorative Practice and Mental Health model worked in teaching ethical conduct, increasing social interpersonal skills, and taking personal responsibility in identifying what harm had been done and what needed to be done to repair it.
About the Author:
Lon Woodbury, the founder of Struggling Teens, has recorded the entire interview on his weekly L.A. Talk Radio show for people to listen to at their convenience.
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