Explore Our Resources
Explore our compilation of education + facilitation resources by PFCC team members.
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Reports
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Publications
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Tools
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Activities
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Curriculum
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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. Through curricular sequences, lesson plans, case studies, and narrative examples, Tati Chaterji maps the terrain for learning and practicing empathy, studying models of repair and accountability, and creating conditions for trust and vulnerability.
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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.
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.
Participatory Action Research Reports
All were conducted in partnership with or consultation by PFCC.
What if development projects were designed and lived by the same people? The title of this report asks us to return to the idea that 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.
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.
Youth PAR report conducted with Youth in Focus to answer the question: How can we educate our communities to take action to make a just food system a right in the Bay Area?
Check out the report here.
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.
Understanding the roots of violence in our community through theater-based youth-led participatory action research.
View the report here.
Tools + Guides
Widely circulated and adapted, this worksheet supports individuals and organizations to recognize patterns, name norms, generate ideas for shifts away from white supremacy culture and towards a culture of dignity and belonging, and identify actions to help get us there.
This activity creates a format for everyone to anonymously contribute questions, as opposed to a brainstorm in which only a segment of the participants will contribute. It also allows for doing a collective mind map and clustering ideas together to develop themes and question clusters which can then be used to develop your research question, research tool or simply as a jumping off point for juicy and generative dialogues.
This is a poetry and mind-mapping activity that provides an opportunity for participants to share personal ideas about a broad topic, and then discover what they all have in common. It’s great to use if the group is trying to come up with a single, more narrow topic to focus on. You can also simply use it in place of a brainstorm where you want a ‘deeper’ and more authentic participation than a brainstorm can often allow.
Activities
This activity is a simple and fun way to introduce participatory research. It can be used to frame a longer conversation about what research is, who researches, who is researched, and why. Or even, “What makes a good research question?”
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