Community safety is built together.

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

Find support Get involved

Start where you are.

You don’t need to know the right program to begin.

For people and communities

I need support

Start with what is happening.

Something may be affecting you, your family, a young person, or your community. You do not need to know the right program.

Find support

For anyone exploring

Community justice

What we do and how we work.

Explore mediation, restorative processes, peacemaking, learning, and the ways CJC's work connects across Fresno.

Explore justice

For people ready to join

Get involved

Bring what you have to contribute.

Learn, volunteer, practice, partner, or support the work. Find the place that fits your interests and experience.

Get involved

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.

Explore

Learning and partnerships

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

Explore

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.

Explore

Restorative processes

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

Explore

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.

Explore

Returning to community

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

Explore

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

Learn with CJC

How we work.

Carefully, voluntarily, and fit to the situation.

Assess fit

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

Prepare people

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

Facilitate the process

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

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.

Explore community impact Explore full history

There is a place for you here.

Learn, volunteer, partner, or give.

Learn with CJC

Build practical conflict, peacemaking, mediation, and restorative skills.

Explore learning

Get involved

Volunteer, intern, bring your experience, partner with CJC, or grow toward supported practice.

Find a way to take part

Support CJC

Help keep learning and restorative processes reachable across Fresno County.

Support this work

Community Justice Access Fund

Help reduce cost and capacity barriers so restorative processes, learning, and practitioner development remain reachable.

Explore the fund