Collective Justice

Mission

Collective Justice (CJ) was born out of conversations with – and entirely nurtured by – survivors of violence. Our mission is to build relationship-based responses to harm that center the dignity of all people. Through restorative and transformative justice practices, we support communities most impacted by interpersonal and state violence to build new pathways for healing, accountability, and safety. 

Vision

We envision a future where our communities experience what it means to be truly free. Free from scarcity and the extractive forces that lead to trauma in our lives and those of our children; free from the punitive systems that exacerbate and double down on these conditions of violence. In the future we are building, we are safe because we are in community. Where there once were prisons, there is an abundance of resources -  green space, food, healthcare, and housing.  In this future, generational wounds are healed, allowing us to live well, equitably, and with love.

What We Do

At Collective Justice, we create spaces where healing and accountability can happen, outside of and in response to the violence of the criminal legal system. Everyone who works at CJ has been impacted by violence in some way, and we know that life-affirming, community-based healing is the only path toward our collective liberation.  

Join Us

We are raising funds to create a future free of violence - for survivors, for people impacted by the criminal legal system, and for our entire community.  Your support directly contributes to our capacity to:

1. Expand our healing circles for those who have experienced violence or lost loved ones to violence;
2. Facilitate transformation through dialogue, fostering healing among survivors and accountability for those who have caused harm;
3. Create space for survivors to transform their pain into power; and
4. Support individuals financially in order to escape situations of violence.

We invite you to invest in practices that heal - not exacerbate - cycles of harm. We, the community, have the solution to heal ourselves. We are grateful you are here.