CVCJ Staff

Date/Time: Friday, April 19, 2024 10:00am Location: CitySpace on the downtown mall. NOTE: “CitySpace” does not show up on Google Maps; use 100 5th Street NE. CitySpace is located at the corner of the downtown mall and 5th Street NE – go up the brick stairs located by the parking garage elevator and through the...

Date & Time: Tue. April 23, 2024 6:00-7:15pm Location: Online This event will address the intersection of two of the most powerful (and problematic) systems in our community: transportation and criminal justice. When someone is harmed by traffic violence, how should the legal system respond? One approach is primarily punitive/carceral, while another approach downplays the...

Date/Time: Friday, April 26, 2024 5-6pm Location: Free Speech Wall, Charlottesville downtown mall Stop by the Free Speech Wall to share your ideas for options, services, and hope for survivors of crime and harm. CVCJ staff will be there to hand out chalk, speak with survivors and those who support them, and answer questions about...

People harmed by crimes want more than punishment. Restorative justice programs deliver. This article by the Vera Institute of Justice features a CVCJ case. Read here.

“Two years after its inception, a criminal diversion program in the Albemarle County and Charlottesville court systems is building healing after people have been wronged or hurt.” To listen and read more: https://www.wmra.org/2024-02-07/albemarle-hit-and-run-case-demonstrates-restorative-justice?fbclid=IwAR35fIwiKe1kMoeDPaomz_IoLGoP1EtkFOcxelf69olsuuu79c9qdOFhgV4

Date & Time: February 21, 6:30-8:30pm Location: Tom Tom Foundation, 100 South Street West ##1D Charlottesville, VA 22902 In this interactive session, Erin Campbell and Rydell Payne from Central Virginia Community Justice will introduce us to restorative frameworks and practices that can strengthen us as individuals and as an interconnected community. CVCJ’s restorative justice is...

Date: Thursday Jan. 25 & Friday Jan. 26, 2024 This symposium offers an expansive survey of the touchpoints and tensions of restorative justice (RJ) and the criminal legal system as well as how restorative justice is practiced and implemented in jurisdictions across the nation. Participants will hear from thought leaders in the field, gain access...

A recently formed organization called Central Virginia Community Justice can step in when a victim, such as Ford, permits it. The prosecutor must also agree to any plea agreement, and Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Shannon P. Neal made the motion Thursday to reduce the criminal charges. The deal that Judge Quatrara accepted allowed Morris — originally...

“If our goal is healing and repair… I think we have to look at different approaches and different ways of doing things.” -Joe Platania, Commonwealth’s Attorney for Charlottesville Listen here

through December 31, 2023 This giving season, please consider choosing Central Virginia Community Justice.  We’re asking our community to team up to help us reach our fundraising goal by the end of the year! To donate or create a fundraising team, please click here: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/peer-to-peer/38d16842-e090-40d7-857b-7119cc7c408b

August 22, 2023 CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – Today, the Albemarle & Charlottesville Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Offices and Central Virginia Community Justice announced a new partnership with the Vera Institute of Justice, as part of their Reshaping Prosecution Program’s Motion for Justice program. Vera will provide Central Virginia Community Justice with financial support to expand its diversion programming and provide the...

Central Virginia Community Justice is a restorative justice diversion program based out of Charlottesville, VA. They provide a “brave space for those involved in harm to lead their own accountability and healing.” CVCJ acts as a restorative alternative to the standard, punitive path of the criminal legal system. Hear from Tarek Maassarani, one of the...

July 25, 2023 2:00-3:00pm EST Register for this podcast episode to hear two CVCJ facilitators speak with Equal Justice USA about our work. https://action.ejusa.org/a/movement-central-virginia-community-justice?fbclid=IwAR057kp9hMIvjJYEIO4QgJLFdiABCu4h6x3iy0hYzM5vZr_bstVUAHliLLo

CVCJ has a different way of handling cases. Instead of going to the courtroom, a solution is facilitated through conversation. “Restorative justice is a way to address harm that isn’t punitive. It puts the needs of the person that was harmed first, and they get to kind of make the choice and how the person...

Newsradio WINA, April 11 2023 Hear Albemarle County Commonwealth’s Attorney Jim Hingeley talk about Central Virginia Community Justice and restorative justice in this area. Listen here

Date: 4/25/23 Time: 6:00-7:30 PM ET Where: Visible Records, Charlottesville, VA Please join us for light refreshments as we introduce Central Virginia Community Justice, an exciting new organization providing restorative justice services in Charlottesville, Albemarle, and the surrounding areas. Meet our practitioners, supporters, and program participants to hear about how those involved in harm have led their own accountability...

Date: 5/4/2023 Time: 6:30PM ET (Doors Open at 6:00PM) Location: Court Square Theater, Harrisonburg VA Explore rural Virginians creating community-driven solutions to their toughest challenges This screening will offer a broad view of VPM‘s eight-episode docuseries “Life in the Heart Land.” You won’t see this screening anywhere else! Episode topics include food insecurity, justice reform, recycling plastics, access to...

Albemarle County and the City of Charlottesville have initiated a restorative justice diversion program as an alternative to prosecution. Programs like this focus on the harmful impact of a crime and define what can be done to repair that harm, while holding the offender accountable. Key to the process is a face-to-face meeting between the offender and...

Date: 3/28/23 Time: 7:00PM ET Where: John Paul Jones Arena, Charlottesville, VA This remarkable event will feature Bryan Stevenson, Founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative and author of the acclaimed book Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. He will speak on the spiritual sources that empower his lifelong commitment to...

Date: Thursday, March 30 Time: 4:00PM Where: UVA Law School WB128 Featuring RJ experts, including a few members of our Advisory Council, speaking about how restorative justice is being used in our community. Register here: https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/zF91LmexKl7xoYFmpGYN_g