Through a combination of grassroots efforts and government support, Nova Scotia, Canada, has the potential to become "a restorative province." This article by Mary Shafer and Laura Mirsky tells how the restorative approach is being implemented in schools and communities and includes interviews with education and agency professionals.

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When a student committed suicide at the University of Vermont, the school community was well prepared to deal with the tragedy because they had been trained in the use of restorative practices such as responsive circles. This article by Joshua Wachtel tells how these processes were brought into play.

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Nigel Richardson, Director of Children and Young People’s Services, Hull City Council, discusses how Hull is endeavoring to become the world's first restorative city, on the occasion of the IIRP 13th World Conference, "Restorative Practices Across Disciplines," in Hull, England, UK.

The Resolve to Stop the Violence Project (RSVP) has transformed the culture of a prison dorm for violent offenders in San Francisco, California, USA, along with the inmates’ entrenched violent behavior, by employing the principles of restorative practices. This article includes stories, implementation information and research data about RSVP.

The Restorative Services program is bringing restorative practices to schools, in response to a growing need on the part of public schools to deal with at-risk students onsite instead of sending them away to alternative programs. The program was developed by Community Service Foundation and Buxmont Academy (CSF Buxmont) — which operate day-treatment schools, foster homes and supervision programs for at-risk youth in eastern Pennsylvania, USA, and are model programs of the International Institute for Restorative Practices (IIRP) Graduate School. This article tells of several schools' experiences with the program and includes comments from teachers and program leaders.

St Edmund’s Community Foundation School, for children 3 to 11 years old, in North Lynn, Norfolk, UK, received restorative practices training in April 2010. This article by Lisa Cook, headteacher of St Edmunds, talks about what a huge difference restorative practices has made at her school in a short period of time.

Fifty criminal justice, education and social service professionals attended the International Institute for Restorative Practices (IIRP) sixth annual Summer Training Institute (STI), in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA, July 26-30, 2010. In this article, seven STI participants from across the world discuss the challenges they face in their respective environments, from the prison to the school room,  as well as their hopes for how restorative practices can help them in their work.

The Huikahi Restorative Circle is a group reentry planning process involving the incarcerated individual, his or her family and friends and at least one prison representative. This article in the June 2010 issue of Federal Probation provides a history and philosophy of this restorative practice, as well as outcome data regarding those who have participated in the process, which show extremely high participant satisfaction rates as well as significantly less recidivism than current state of Hawai'i and national rates.