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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 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 />