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Community safety is built together.

Mediation, restorative practices, and practical skills for families, schools, neighbors, and organizations across Fresno County.

What we do.

Prevention, intervention, and restoration, with learning that runs through all of it.

Prevention

Build practical skills and relationships that help people work through conflict before harm grows.

Young people

Young people build conflict skills, practice restorative approaches, and take on leadership in schools and community.

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Learning and partnerships

Training and collaboration give people and organizations practical ways to carry peacemaking into their own settings.

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Intervention

Create space to work through a dispute or harm, be heard, and explore a responsible next step.

Courts and mediation

Civil and community mediation give people structured ways to understand interests, explore options, and work toward agreements.

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Restorative processes

Restorative processes create space for voice, accountability, repair, and meaningful next steps after harm.

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Restoration

Support voice, accountability, repair, and belonging after harm or when returning to community.

Victim Voice

People affected by harm can receive information, understand their choices, and decide how they want to participate.

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Returning to community

Relationships, accountability, and community connection matter as people navigate reentry and return to community.

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Peacemaking can be learned,practiced, and carried into community.

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How we work.

Carefully, voluntarily, and fit to the situation.

01

Assess fit

Start by understanding what each person needs and whether a CJC process fits the situation.

02

Prepare people

Participation is informed and voluntary. People are prepared, never rushed.

03

Facilitate the process

Mediation, restorative processes, and supported conversations are shaped to the situation.

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Follow through

Coordination and follow-up keep understanding, agreements, and repair in place over time.

Peacemaking in Fresno since 1982.

What changes.

Connection

People have somewhere to begin and someone to talk with.

Accountability

Responsibility can become clearer without erasing dignity or voice.

Repair

People can address harm and work toward meaningful next steps.

Belonging

Conflict does not have to mean permanent exclusion from community.

Community safety is built together.

It is shaped in families, schools, workplaces, and neighborhoods, long before and long after a formal response.

CJC is one organization. Community justice takes all of us.

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Stay connected with CJC.

Follow CJC’s work, share what you’re seeing, or get occasional updates about trainings and community events.

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