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20 <br /> Conflict of Interest forms— <br /> There are required each year for all JCPC Council members. Voting members are required to certify that <br /> there are no conflicts of interest, and if there are, to identify them and describe what steps will be taken to <br /> address the conflict. Please complete and email back to Sharron Hinton and/or Rebekah Rapoza. <br /> Committee Sign-Up— <br /> We have three subcommittee—Monitoring, Risk and Needs, and Funding. Council members are strongly <br /> encouraged to review the provided descriptions and sign-up to serve on at least one committee. You are <br /> welcome to serve on more than one. Program providers and other community agencies are welcome to sit <br /> on the Risk and Needs committee. <br /> Q: How do we sign up for a committee? <br /> A: Please send an email to Sharron Hinton and/or Rebekah Rapoza. <br /> Crista Collazo, Hathaway Pendergrass, Gayane Chambless, Lateef Mitchell, Carol McClelland, and <br /> Amanda Farris volunteered for the Risk and Needs committee. <br /> Bernard Miles, Laurie Williamson, Carol McClelland, Gayane Chambless, and Amanda Farris <br /> volunteered for the Funding committee. <br /> Laurie Williamson, Carol McClelland, and Amy Fowler volunteered for the Monitoring committee. <br /> Guest Speaker—Val Hanson representing the Restoring Youth Coalition of North Carolina <br /> RYCNC is a group of ten mediation centers and agencies across the state that applied for grant funding <br /> three years ago to do research in a collaborative effort to bring statewide restorative justice processes to <br /> the division of juvenile justice. They are in their third year of meeting, and over the last year and a half, <br /> have been working directly with DPS and juvenile justice to guide, encourage, and provide structure to <br /> restorative justice across the state. Over the next two months, these ten centers will give presentations to <br /> all 100 JCPCs in the state. <br /> There are few counties in North Carolina that have restorative justice programs other than teen court. The <br /> presentation will give an introduction to restorative justice, share new programming options and a virtual <br /> guidebook, and provide information on how you can grow restorative justice in your county. <br /> The traditional system is a punitive punishment system where we talk about what rule was broken and <br /> what the punishment should be. Restorative justice talks about how the behavior is unacceptable and <br /> fosters accountability and the ability to restore the harm. It's based on crime is violation of people and <br /> interpersonal relationships and that it's important to remedy the harm caused by the criminal act. The <br /> process is about guiding the offender to acknowledge that what they did was harmful and as much as <br /> possible to take action to repair the harm. <br /> Restorative justice is evidence based and has been named a promising practice by the US Department of <br /> Justice, National Institute of Justice, and Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. It is also <br /> on the registry of evidence based practices. Being evidence based, restorative justice has been <br /> acknowledged to have a positive impact on crime and delinquency, compliance with restitution and fine <br /> payments, an offender make reparations for the harm caused by the offense, and a victim's perception of <br /> fairness of the justice system. <br /> During the restorative justice process, participants talk about who was impacted, how they were impacted, <br /> and what needs to be done to repair the harm. The process offers the youth an opportunity to repair the <br />