Julia Steiny, a Rhode Island writer and education consultant was a guest on the Struggling Teens weekly radio show. On L.A. Talk Radio, she discussed with host Lon Woodbury how restorative practices and mental health work together to create a new community in schools.
History
Director as well as Founder of the Youth Restoration Project Reconstruction Job (YRP) in Rhode Island, the guest of the show Julia Steiny is a qualified instructor for the International Institute for Restorative Practices and has certifications from the Suffolk Center for Restorative Justice and the B.E.S.T. instructors. She initially created her concepts on Restorative Practices in 2007 after returning home from a trip to Belfast, Northern Ireland. There she discovered all about how the concept had actually started to rehabilitate the youth of a city that had been rebelling against a punitive justice model.
Her school in Rhode Island educates moms and dads on the best ways to replace the typical techniques of punishment by training youth on how to engage in the life of their community and move away from exterior influences to inner self control.
How Restorative Practices And Mental Health Practices Can Help Struggling Teens
Steiny explained how she was able to take a concept that evolved from the established traditions of council circles in New Zealand and Australia, in addition to Native American customs, and utilize it to aid at-risk teenagers understand the consequences of their behavior when they harmed others.
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 additionally described the difference between Restorative Justice and Restorative Practices. While Restorative Justice deals with recovering from acts of misconduct by starting a discussion between victims and persecutors in a council of their peers, Restorative Practices concentrate on establishing significant relationships to begin with through self-controls like making use of" I" statements, circling up, and emphasizing the value of preserving community.
During the course of the interview, she described how giving children a voice was the central dynamic that created highly positive change. She described numerous aspects of how the Restorative Practice and Mental Health model worked in teaching ethical conduct, increasing social interpersonal skills, and taking personal responsibility in identifying what harm had been done and what needed to be done to repair it.
History
Director as well as Founder of the Youth Restoration Project Reconstruction Job (YRP) in Rhode Island, the guest of the show Julia Steiny is a qualified instructor for the International Institute for Restorative Practices and has certifications from the Suffolk Center for Restorative Justice and the B.E.S.T. instructors. She initially created her concepts on Restorative Practices in 2007 after returning home from a trip to Belfast, Northern Ireland. There she discovered all about how the concept had actually started to rehabilitate the youth of a city that had been rebelling against a punitive justice model.
Her school in Rhode Island educates moms and dads on the best ways to replace the typical techniques of punishment by training youth on how to engage in the life of their community and move away from exterior influences to inner self control.
How Restorative Practices And Mental Health Practices Can Help Struggling Teens
Steiny explained how she was able to take a concept that evolved from the established traditions of council circles in New Zealand and Australia, in addition to Native American customs, and utilize it to aid at-risk teenagers understand the consequences of their behavior when they harmed others.
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 additionally described the difference between Restorative Justice and Restorative Practices. While Restorative Justice deals with recovering from acts of misconduct by starting a discussion between victims and persecutors in a council of their peers, Restorative Practices concentrate on establishing significant relationships to begin with through self-controls like making use of" I" statements, circling up, and emphasizing the value of preserving community.
During the course of the interview, she described how giving children a voice was the central dynamic that created highly positive change. She described numerous aspects of how the Restorative Practice and Mental Health model worked in teaching ethical conduct, increasing social interpersonal skills, and taking personal responsibility in identifying what harm had been done and what needed to be done to repair it.
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Learn more about Lon Woodbury on Struggling Teens. He has recorded the entire interview on his weekly L.A. Talk Radio show for people to listen to at any time.
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