March 19, 20 & 21, 2010
9 a.m.–4 p.m. Friday and Saturday
and 12 noon–5 p.m. Sunday
University of Delaware, Newark, Del.
This event was co-sponsored by IPA's Conflict Resolution Program, the Children's Beach House, and the Delaware Association for Public Administration, and was supported by the Delaware Center for Justice.
if you have a question, please call Kathy Wian (302-831-2927).
Participants received:
Who should attend, should it be held again at some future date:
For more information about this series, contact CRP at 302-831-8158.
Background
Circles are based on the tradition of talking circles, common among indigenous peoples of North America, and modern peacemaking and consensus-building processes. They provide a process for bringing people together to build community and to work through conflict or difference. The circle process is a way of getting the most complete picture people can give of themselves, each other, and the issue(s) at hand, in order to enable them to move together in a positive way. The circle process is being used for decision-making, problem-solving, and conflict resolution in neighborhoods, the workplace, schools, families, the criminal justice system and not-for-profit organizations.
Peacemaking circles can be used for any number of applications. Circles can be used almost anywhere there is conflict or trauma or a need for community-building. A paradigm shift in how we respond to crime and/or conflict, circles operate from a few fundamental premises about human beings and our human condition:
The Trainers
Donald J. Haldeman, MS, JD
Don supervises the Victim Services Unit of Delaware County (Pa.) Juvenile Court and also serves as the restorative-justice specialist for the court. Don is also a Graduate Affiliate Faculty at Saint Joseph`s University, where he facilitates six classes each year, with four of them making up a restorative justice minor in graduate criminal justice. Don also teaches restorative justice at Widener University. Don has offered numerous workshops nationally on the use of circle dialogue in academia and the implementation of a restorative-justice classroom. Don has an M.S. in administration of justice from Shippensburg University and a J.D. from Widener Law School in Delaware. Don received his restorative-justice trainer certification from Florida Atlantic University and The National Institute of Corrections (NIC). He received his peacemaking-circle training under Kay Pranis and Don Johnson from Minnesota, his property crime–mediation training from Mark Umbreit at the University of Minnesota, and his severe violence–dialogue training from Dave Gustafson from Vancouver, B.C.
Jacquelyn Bishop, MSS, LSW
A licensed Social Worker in the state of Pennsylvania, Ms. Bishop received a Master of Social Service degree from Bryn Mawr College. She holds a Bachelor's in Sociology from Pennsylvania State University. The former supervisor of the Consent Decree Program, Ms. Bishop created programming for competency-based education for juvenile offenders. A 30-year veteran of Juvenile Justice, Ms. Bishop has served in many capacities during her tenure at Juvenile Court. She was an instructor of Sociology and Psychology at Community College for ten years. She has also taught at Drexel and Villanova. She has supervised graduate students from University of Pennsylvania, Bryn Mawr College, and Widener University. She holds a post-master's Certificate in Child & Adolescent Psychology from Bryn Mawr College. Training people in the Circle Dialogue Process has been her passion for the past five years, hi addition to training probation staff, she has trained school personnel (Garnet Valley), drug and alcohol counselors, and mediators.
Jennifer A. Clement, Director, Delaware Center for Youth Development
Jennifer joined the staff at the Children’s Beach House as the first director of the Delaware Center for Youth Development in 2006. Jennifer has extensive training experience and has presented at Association for Childhood Education International, California School-Age Consortium, National Alliance for Black School Educators, National School-Age Child Care Association, National School Community Corps., and many more. She comes from Pennsylvania, where she worked as the assistant executive director at the Center for Resolutions for three years. Prior to that, she was the director of educational programs at Woodrock, Inc., in Philadelphia and was the director of curriculum at FOUNDATIONS, Inc., in Mount Laurel, N.J., where she published five curriculum manuals for after-school programs. Jennifer holds a bachelor's degree in sociology from the College of Wooster in Ohio.
