TPP's programming works to end cycles of harm and improve public safety and community wellbeing. TPP’s founding work was in prisons, and while these models remain central to our work, we believe that Restorative Justice belongs everywhere. Since 2020, we have expanded to reach even more members of our community and now utilize a 3-tiered approach to restorative change:
1. Restorative Justice in Institutions
2. Restorative Justice in the Community
3. Restorative Justice Education & Narrative Change
RJ in Institutions |
At the heart of our programming is our RJ work with incarcerated individuals. We operate in both adult and juvenile facilities and work to understand how interpersonal and systemic trauma has impacted our program participants and contributed to their current situation. We offer opportunities to work through underlying traumas, identify and connect to resource needs, be in conversation with survivors/impacted parties, and work towards making amends and accepting accountability.
Our current programming in institutions includes:
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RJ in the Community |
TPP also works with communities that are hurting. We focus specifically on communities who are system-impacted, are experiencing trauma, are disproportionately affected by socioeconomic oppression, and are under resourced. We offer healing circles as a way to help bring communities together to process and heal from trauma.
Our current community programming includes: Youth Circles: Tpp offers biweekly youth circles in East Boston in collaboration with Maverick Landing Community Services (MLCS) and East Coalition. Tpp has been helping to run these circles for over 4 years. Court-Involved Individuals: TPP has also done extensive work within the Suffolk County Court system, including with the Roxbury CHOICE program for young adults on probation, and with the SJC's Restorative Justice committee. Boston Public Schools: TPP has a grant with Agncy Design, where we run restorative programming in Boston public schools with students and school educators and administrators. The goal is to have the students reimagine what safety looks like within their schools. Digital Literacy: TPP offers a 13-week Digital Literacy class for formerly incarcerated individuals in partnership with Maverick Landing Community Services (MLCS). This class works to support returning citizens in acclimating to technological advances and developing a sense of digital competence. Returning Citizens: TPP seeks to grow to become the landing place for all coming home after incarceration. We are currently working to establish reentry groups for returning citizens. |
RJ Education & Narrative Change |
TPP recognizes that we must address systems that cause harm. As such, we are working to bring Restorative Justice into criminal justice, legal, social work, and healthcare systems. TPP works with professors, practitioners, and students at various institutes of higher education. Our goal is to build an understanding of carceral trauma and systemic harms. We seek to educate and empower current and future stewards of these systems to end the cycles of harm and become agents of healing.
Our current and past partners include: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management Tufts University TUPIT Columbia University School of Social Work Harvard Business School Harvard Kennedy School of Government Harvard Law School Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Northeastern University School of Law Law Vermont Law School |