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  • ROUNDTABLE BREAKFAST: Project Restore: Rethinking Responses to Community Violence

ROUNDTABLE BREAKFAST: Project Restore: Rethinking Responses to Community Violence

  • Thursday, March 05, 2026
  • 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  • ZOOM - ONLINE
  • 32 registrants

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  • The event is free and open to anyone interested in the topic. Please register in order to attend.
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ACR-GNY & CUNY Dispute Resolution Center at John Jay College present

Project Restore: Rethinking Responses to Community Violence

This session introduces the ecological framework guiding Project Restore, a community violence intervention that works with youth at high risk of violence who hold influence within rival street crews. The model views street-crew involvement and violence as responses to cumulative adversity, including interpersonal harm, social exclusion, and structural marginalization in communities disproportionately affected by gun violence.

Project Restore asks: What combination of supports, opportunities, and networks enables young people most impacted by violence to transition into healthy adulthood and assume constructive roles in their communities?

In response, Project Restore provides holistic support through individualized case management, mentorship from credible messengers with lived experience, restorative justice–based healing circles, life skills development, and education and employment internships, along with stipends to support sustained participation. Together, these strategies are designed to foster personal transformation, strengthen pro-social networks, promote peaceful coexistence, and reduce neighborhood violence.

The session will also share outcomes and lessons learned from the Bedford-Stuyvesant pilot at the individual, relational, and neighborhood levels.



PROFESSOR GERALDINE DOWNEY

Geraldine Downey is the Robert Johnston Niven Professor of Humane Letters in Psychology at Columbia University and Founder and Director of the Center for Justice. An internationally recognized expert in identity development, social exclusion, interpersonal aggression, and rejection sensitivity, she brings over 30 years of experience researching and developing programs for justice-impacted individuals and communities. She is also a Founding Executive of Project Restore and leads its Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning efforts.


IMPORTANT NOTE:

The Roundtable Breakfasts are online meetings via Zoom. The link will change each month and will be distributed to all registrants the day before and the morning of the event. All listed times for ACR-GNY events are for Eastern Time.

8:00 am – 8:30 am | Join call to network with attendees

8:30 am – 10:00 am | Presentation and Discussion


About the Roundtable Breakfasts

The Roundtable Breakfasts are organized by ACR-GNY and the CUNY Dispute Resolution Center at John Jay College. They take place the first Thursday of the month and are ongoing since 2001.

Views expressed in connection with any Roundtable event publicity or at sessions are those of the speakers and participants and not of the CUNY DRC or ACR-GNY.

This program is supported by ACR-GNY's 365 Sponsor:

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