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Practice & Support Circle Meetings~ 2024 Calendar
As part of our ongoing work to create a community of organizers who are grounded in Abolition, Liberatory Harm Reduction and Transformative Justice, we offer peer support circles for those interested in deeply exploring challenges in practice.
Community Accountability 303 Support & Practice Circle
Are you an experienced Community Accountability facilitator with at least one year of experience facilitating processes? You may be interested in this support circle. This series is not for people who are new to Community Accountability or have never facilitated a process.
If you are newer to community accountability facilitation or transformative justice, please check out Spring Up and their Summer Transformative Justice Series.
As part of our ongoing work with Community Accountability facilitators who hold processes, Just Practice Collaborative and Creative Interventions are offering a 4 session virtual support circle to experienced facilitators.
Community Accountability facilitators have always encountered thorny and complex issues that impact processes. Now is a great time to gather and work through some of the harder issues that can and do derail them. We invite you to bring your stuck points - the murky areas that stall processes - so we can work through them together. During these sessions, we will workshop, discuss, and skillshare strategies and techniques for working through the challenges we face.
There are a limited number of spots available for this series, therefore we will only be able to admit 30
The next circle will be offered on Thursdays in May 2024. Apply here until April 2nd, 2024.
Abolitionist Social Worker/Social Service Practice & Support Circle
This 4 session support circle is hosted by Justice Practice Collaborative and National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network.
Who is this for? This offering is for you if you are an abolitionist social worker providing direct services and/or supervision to staff and/or a social service provider working in social service settings (hospitals, foster care, harm reduction programs, domestic violence and sexual assault settings, shelter systems etc.) OR you are an abolitionist who is in a position of power or has supervisory responsibility inside a non-profit social service setting.
We imagine a place where abolitionist social service workers can come together to discuss the real life navigation of abolitionist politics in larger non-profit settings.
What are we offering? We are offering a collective thought partnership experience so that we can be in communal contemplation with the many complexities of being a practicing social worker who is fighting for abolition while offering direct services and/or supervisory support to staff.
We will create time for us to gather and work through stuck points - the murky areas that give us pause and create ethical dilemmas - so we can work through them together. During these sessions, we will workshop, discuss, and skillshare strategies and techniques for working through the challenges we face. We will base each week's discussion on the themes that come from your stuck points named in your applications.
To apply you must (you do not have to be both- you can be either one listed below):
1. Have a masters in social work / be a licensed social worker providing direct services OR
2. Have supervisory power within social services
Priority will be given to people providing direct services and applicants who are Black, Indigenous, People of Color.
The next support circle will be offered on Wednesdays in September 2024 from 4:30pm-7:30pm CST.
Applications will be available in July 2024.
There are a limited number of spots available for this series, therefore we will only be able to admit 30 participants.
Building Community Crisis Response Monthly Meetings
Who is this space for?
This monthly virtual peer learning space is for groups and organizations working to collectively intervene in and respond to crises without police.
This is an abolitionist collaborative learning space where participants are invited to share knowledge, experience, and expertise, as well as questions, uncertainties, nuance, and disagreements.
You can read more about the work we did together over the last two years in this report written by Interrupting Criminalization.
We are focused on non-carceral, non-police crisis response and prevention programs. We believe coercive mental health interventions and mandated reporting are control and a carceral response.