Partners
The Center on Violence and Recovery provides technical assistance related to its current work in intimate and community violence including consultation in program development, research design and implementation, training, and curriculum development.
Construyendo Circulos de Paz/Constructing Circles of Peace
Nogales, Arizona
Circles of Peace is a first-of-its-kind domestic violence treatment program that uses a restorative justice approach to reduce violent behavior in families. Restorative justice emphasizes repairing the harm caused by criminal behavior. It is accomplished through cooperative processes that incorporate all the affected parties, including perpetrators and victims who choose to participate, extended family members and the community. Circles of Peace is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, and an Arizona Department of Health licensed organization.
Center on Violence and Recovery Executive Director, Linda G. Mills, along with Nogales Justice Court Judge, Mary Helen Maley, are the co-founders of Circles of Peace.
In 2005, CVR researchers, funded by the National Science Foundation, began a comparison study of Circles of Peace and a typical Batterers Intervention program in Nogales. To read more about the study, click here.
Circles of Peace has been chosen as one of Harvard Kennedy School's Ash Institute Top 50 Innovations in Government. Considered the nation's premier public sector honor, the innovations in American Government Awards program is an annual award that recognizes exemplary models of innovative government in all domestic policy areas. To read more about it, click here.
For more information on Circles of Peace, please visit www.circlesofpeace.us, call 520-281-0579 or email info@circlesofpeace.us.
Healing Circles: The Jewish Family Service of Clifton-Passaic, New Jersey
Clifton-Passaic, New Jersey
The Jewish Family Service of Clifton-Passaic, New Jersey is a comprehensive, non-discriminatory social service agency. The Healing Circles program is a pilot project at the agency designed as a restorative justice intervention for families experiencing domestic violence who do not wish to involve the criminal justice system. For more information on Healing Circles, please contact Esther East at 973-777-7638. For more information on the Jewish Family Service of Clifton-Passaic, New Jersey, go to their website at www.jfsclifton.com.
The Center on Violence and Recovery is a co-developer of the Healing Circles project and Dr. Linda G. Mills, CVR Executive Director, provides clinical support.
Trauma and Violence Transdisciplinary Studies (TVTS)
New York University's Trauma and Violence Transdisciplinary Studies program offers students, faculty and scholars “a space for critical inquiry into all of the theoretical, critical, and clinical aspects of the analysis and treatment of trauma, violence, and their aftermath.” Based in many of the same theoretical frameworks and research interests, the Center on Violence and Recovery often co-sponsors events with TVTS, and works together to further our understanding of community violence and trauma. To learn more about the opportunities TVTS offers, click here.
No More Tears, San Quentin Prison
San Quentin, California
No More Tears is a prisoner-created, prisoner-run program in the San Quentin State Prison with a mission to "curb violence and detrimental behaviors within targeted communities by creating and implementing an effective crime and violence prevention program." No More Tears has four goals:
- To consolidate efforts of interested persons and groups to curtail crime and violence in our communities;
- To identify creative ways to utilize available resources;
- To create a comprehensive plan of empowerment; and
- To implement programs to help stem crime and violence.
Police Organization Providing Peer Assistance (POPPA)
New York, New York 
Police Organization Providing Peer Assistance is a volunteer peer support network whose commitment is exclusively dedicated to providing a confidential, safe and supportive environment for police officers and their families. The POPPA Organization facilitates families and individuals in coping more effectively with the multitude of stresses experienced during the course of their law enforcement profession. They are dedicated to the prevention and reduction of marital problems, substance abuse, suicide as well as existing psychological disorders among our officers and their families. For more information on POPPA, visit their website at or call 212.298.9111.