Rooted in Fresno.Built with community.
Fresno’s peacemaking and restorative work reaches back to 1982.
Community Justice Center formed in 2020 to carry that tradition forward.
Our mission.
Community Justice Centerseeks to cultivateindividual and collective well‑being,shared accountability, and healingthrough community‑driven researchand evidence‑based restorative processes.
The organization is newer than the work it carries.
Fresno’s restorative-justice history reaches back decades, and repeatedly expands from individual programs toward a broader community-safety and community-justice vision.
Community Justice Center carries the work forward.
People make community justice possible.
Community justice grows through what people bring.
People bring
- Knowledge
- Skill
- Lived experience
- Relationships
- Compassion
- Honesty
- Curiosity
- Commitment
Many roles. Shared responsibility.
Staff, facilitators, mediators, trainers, volunteers, mentors, and community practitioners each carry a different part of the work.
A volunteer board holds CJC’s work in public trust through governance, oversight, and accountability.
Lived experience is a strength, held alongside preparation, clear boundaries, training, supervision, and care.
Peacemaking is local.
CJC works with and beside individuals, families, neighborhoods, young people, schools, organizations, courts, public partners, and community groups across Fresno County.
Schools and public systems
- Fresno Unified School District (opens in a new tab)Restorative Practices
- Fresno CountyJuvenile Justice Campus / Courthouse
Networks and affiliations
- NAFCM (opens in a new tab)National Association for Community Mediation
- OYCR (opens in a new tab)California Office of Youth and Community Restoration
- Southwest Fresno POWER (opens in a new tab)
- DRIVE / Community Justice Network (opens in a new tab)
These relationships include membership, collaboration, network participation, shared learning, and public-sector work. Some reflect past work rather than an active engagement; inclusion does not imply funding.
Explore partnershipsCommunity justice takes all of us.
CJC is one organization within a larger community.People bring lived experience, relationships, learning, values, and care. CJC connects those contributions with preparation and supported practice.
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