tpp in community.
tpp in community.
Our ProgrammingTPP'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 different spaces
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:
The Massachusetts Department of Youth Services (DYS), where we currently work across two regions, three facilities, and five units with both boys and girls
The Massachusetts House of Corrections (HOC) where we currently run both a men's and women's group
Our current community programming includes:
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.
Transformational Youth Maintenance Group:
An 8 week reentry group specifically catered towards transformative youth (those given a life sentence under the age of 21) who have recently come home from prison
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.
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.
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
Vermont Law School
