Collective Climb

Our Restorative Justice Diversion Program carries us across the seasons. In 2024, we reached 32 youth (with 18 on track for expungement and 12 on track for program completion in 2025) and consistently provided 1:1 programming while also supporting families and persons harmed with resources. (Note: We increased pipelines to therapists, including the practices of Full Being Services, Melanated Women's Health, and Melanated Healing-a cost we can cover for 12 sessions per youth). To increase pro-social programmatic experiences. for youth, we made referrals to the Niche Clinic, the ASPCA, Philadelphia Youth Basketball, and Dr. Chantel Price's Go Hard or Go Home Cosmetology Program. Simultaneously, we began our partnership with Dr. Noor Toraif of Boston University School of Social Work to do retrospective research on the success of our diversion program to date (which maintains an all-time recidivism rate of 5%). This will inform a future longitudinal study that seeks to answer: How does RJ based diversion impact youth's psychological outcomes? How does RJ based diversion impact youth's social outcomes? How do restorative justice processes shape community perceptions of youth with criminal legal system contact, and the criminal legal system more broadly?