Mission: Just Practice Collaborative exists to build our communities’ capacity to effectively and empathically respond to intimate partner violence, sexual assault and crisis without relying primarily on police or other state-based systems. We offer care work, mentoring, practice spaces and think through structures of support for abolitionist organizers and facilitators of restorative and transformative justice processes and organizers who are building non-carceral and non-police crisis response teams around the country.
Vision:
Just Practice Collaborative works to create a world where survivors and their communities can feel believed, feel held and like healing is possible.
About Us
The Just Practice Collaborative is focused on sustaining a community of organizers, community accountability practitioners and abolitionists. We provide community-based accountability and support structures for all parties involved with incidents and patterns of sexual, domestic, relationship, and intimate community violence. JPC is both a practice is a resource and a model for those who want to address violence and crisis without reliance on criminal legal and traditional social services.
Founded in 2014 by Shira Hassan, Deana Lewis, Rachel Caidor, Mariame Kaba, Keisa Reynolds and Ana Mercado, we are an abolitionist feminist, survivor led, mostly queer and disability centered network of organizers who have been working to interrupt, transform and respond to violence without the use of prisons, police and most state systems for last decade. We work to develop and sustain a community of organizers who are skilled in community accountability and crisis response.