Julia Steiny, a Rhode Island author and education consultant was recently invited to the Struggling Teenagers weekly radio show. On L.A. Talk Radio, she went over a new concept in helping at risk-teens with host Lon Woodbury, describing exactly how restorative practices and mental health can work in harmony to heal adolescents in crisis.
Background
Founder of the Youth Restoration Project (YRP) in Rhode Island, Julia Steiny is a certified trainer for the International Institute for Restorative Practices and has certificates from the Suffolk Center for Restorative Justice and the B.E.S.T. trainers. She first developed her suggestions on Restorative Practices in 2007 after returning home from a journey to Belfast, Northern Ireland. There she learned exactly how the principle of restorative practices had actually started to heal a city that had been dominated by a punitive justice model.
Her school in Rhode Island educates parents on how they can replace the common practice of punishment by training young people in new ways to participate in the life of the community and move away from external control to interior self-command.
Exactly how Restorative Practices And Mental Wellness Practices Could Help Struggling Adolescents
The radio show guest explained how she was able to take a concept that evolved out of ancient techniques of council circles in New Zealand and Australia, as well as out of Native American traditions, and use it to help at-risk teens realize the consequences of their actions when they harmed others in some way.
She contrasted the two predominant theories used to restore discipline in schools; namely, Positive Behavior Interventions & Systems (PBIS) and Restorative Practices. While PBIS does make the regulations clear to youngsters and has proactive procedures like catching them doing things appropriately, it does not highlight prevention as much as Restorative Practices. The result is that Positive Behavior is more about figuring out what to do after an incident rather than preventing harmful behavior from taking place.
She also explained the difference between Restorative Justice and Restorative Practices. While Restorative Justice works on healing the effects of misconduct by initiating a dialogue between victim and perpetrators in the presence of their peers, Restorative Practices are much more focused on developing meaningful relationships in the first place through disciplines like using" I" statements, circling up, and maintaining community.
Throughout the interview, she explained exactly how providing youngsters a voice was the central dynamic that made for very positive change. She described many aspects of how the Restorative Practice and Mental Health model operated in training conscientious conduct, raising social interpersonal skills, and taking on individual responsibility when determining what injury had been done and what needed to be done to repair it.
Background
Founder of the Youth Restoration Project (YRP) in Rhode Island, Julia Steiny is a certified trainer for the International Institute for Restorative Practices and has certificates from the Suffolk Center for Restorative Justice and the B.E.S.T. trainers. She first developed her suggestions on Restorative Practices in 2007 after returning home from a journey to Belfast, Northern Ireland. There she learned exactly how the principle of restorative practices had actually started to heal a city that had been dominated by a punitive justice model.
Her school in Rhode Island educates parents on how they can replace the common practice of punishment by training young people in new ways to participate in the life of the community and move away from external control to interior self-command.
Exactly how Restorative Practices And Mental Wellness Practices Could Help Struggling Adolescents
The radio show guest explained how she was able to take a concept that evolved out of ancient techniques of council circles in New Zealand and Australia, as well as out of Native American traditions, and use it to help at-risk teens realize the consequences of their actions when they harmed others in some way.
She contrasted the two predominant theories used to restore discipline in schools; namely, Positive Behavior Interventions & Systems (PBIS) and Restorative Practices. While PBIS does make the regulations clear to youngsters and has proactive procedures like catching them doing things appropriately, it does not highlight prevention as much as Restorative Practices. The result is that Positive Behavior is more about figuring out what to do after an incident rather than preventing harmful behavior from taking place.
She also explained the difference between Restorative Justice and Restorative Practices. While Restorative Justice works on healing the effects of misconduct by initiating a dialogue between victim and perpetrators in the presence of their peers, Restorative Practices are much more focused on developing meaningful relationships in the first place through disciplines like using" I" statements, circling up, and maintaining community.
Throughout the interview, she explained exactly how providing youngsters a voice was the central dynamic that made for very positive change. She described many aspects of how the Restorative Practice and Mental Health model operated in training conscientious conduct, raising social interpersonal skills, and taking on individual responsibility when determining what injury had been done and what needed to be done to repair it.
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Find out more about Struggling Teens. Lon Woodbury has the recorded the entire interview on his L.A. Talk Radio show for people to listen to at any time.
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