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Books
This much-needed book provides a practical framework for implementing school-wide restorative justice practices to enhance students’ social emotional readiness. Amidst today’s uncertainty and social unrest, this book offers teachers and students hope in the underlying principles of restorative justice that challenge us to be our best selves.
Our process, Coliberate, seeks to support community members in designing and conducting their own assessments, research, design and planning projects with broad support from allied organizations, coalitions and academic institutions. This Participatory Action Research curriculum book guides practitioners from start to finish.
Learn more and access the curriculum on our Coliberate page.
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This beautiful digital book is a compilation of curriculum from theater and healing programs in prison. The author emphasizes real-time practice and includes foundational theory to support with lesson planning in designing a sequence of workshops that culminate in performance.
Available for purchase here.
What if development projects were designed and lived by the same people? Development should always improve lives and never cause harm. Instead of being devoted to the end products, development should focus first on realizing community-led plans and priorities.
Groundbreaking report conducted by the Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project (BLMP). BLMP envisions a world without forced migration, where no one is forced to give up their homeland and where all Black LGBTQIA+ people are free and liberated.
Participatory Action Research Reports
All were conducted in partnership with or consultation by PFCC.
YPAR project designed to answer the question: What are the qualities of youth programs that successfully motivate people to improve Oakland communities?
View the report here.
The purpose of this community research project was to obtain a better understanding of how water quality impacts our health, families and our community.
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Findings and recommendations from current and former California foster youth.
Check out the report here.
How can we educate our communities to take action to make a just food system a right in the Bay Area? Youth-led PAR project.
Read the report.
We hope that you take the data we’ve gathered, and the recommendations here, to make a difference in the lives of many around the state, to bridge a gap that families all across the state suffer from. This data alone could be used to offer a better understanding of the people within each community, statewide and the barriers to success we all face.
Read here.
Understanding the roots of violence in our community through theater-based youth-led participatory action research.
View the report here.
Plan to improve the quality of life for residents of Central Dover through affordable housing, quality jobs, youth programs, and improving public safety
Tools & Guides
Compiled by Levana Saxon.
Created by Tati Chaterji, available for purchase here.
Widely circulated and adapted, this worksheet supports individuals and organizations to recognize patterns, name norms, generate actionable ideas for shifts away from white supremacy culture and towards a culture of dignity and belonging.
Activities
Participants choose a question they are truly curious about and survey other participants in the room within a given time frame.
Access here.
This can be used for all kinds of situations as a fun and anonymous alternative to brainstorming.
Access here.
This is a mind-mapping activity that starts with a free-write and ends with a decision about what issue to focus on that everyone has a personal stake in.
