Community Justice Initiatives (CJI) in Langley, BC is pleased to announce the recipients of the Restorative Action scholarships:
- Catrina Thomas, Langley Fine Arts School
- Alicia Harris, Langley Secondary School
The student mediators have been active members of their school’s Restorative Action team and have been a positive influence with their peers. They have embraced the values and principles of Restorative Action and have integrated them into their school and personal lives.
Restorative Action is an effective, sustainable approach for schools to use in dealing with discipline situations. Instead of relying on punishment and isolation, Community Justice Initiatives in partnership with the Langley School District, have developed a comprehensive, sustainable program with the goal of creating safer schools throughout the local school district, where safety, respect and inclusion are commonplace among students.
Funding for this program is provided by the Langley School District, Coast Capital Savings, Edith Lando Foundation and Envision Financial.
2014 Scholarship winner
Catrina Thomas, Langley Fine Arts School:
“I am confident that Restorative Action provides an immediate benefit to the school and its students as well as long term commitment to the Community and to those that have been trained and involved in the Restorative Action process”.
Catrina plans on going into Human Rights Law. She has learned that “Restorative Action provides a motivation to continue in helping people and mediate conflict as well as leading a life based on the consciousness of how to respect and listen more genuinely.”
Left to right: Dan Basham, CJI Restorative Action Program Coordinator;
Susan Perkins, LFAS Vice Principal;
Kim Thomas;
Catrina Thomas, Scholarship Winner;
Greg Thomas;
Dave Gustafson, CJI Executive Director;
Madeleine DeLittle, LFAS RA Coordinator;
Jon Bonner, LFAS Principal
2014 Scholarship winner
Alicia Harris, Langley Secondary School:
“Once completing the Restorative Action Program, I have learned that there is another avenue to allow a child to reach their full potential.”
Alicia says “the RA program has allowed conflicts between students to be mediated before becoming a major conflict that is unmanageable by our team, vice principals and our principal. Students have grown to respect the program for our credibility with confidentiality. Our program at school has also allowed students to want to come to school even when they were having a conflict, just so the conflict could be mediated.”
Alicia plans to be a Child and Youth Care worker.
Left to right: Dave Gustafson, CJI Executive Director;
Dan Basham, CJI Restorataive Action Program Coordinator;
Alicia Harris, LSS Scholarship Winner;
Margot Stewart-Lee, Langley Secondary School Counsellor
