Past Events

Dates: June 2, 3, & 9 Location: The Point Church – Pantops CVCJ’s Restorative Justice Facilitator Training will prepare you to guide conversations that center accountability, healing, and respect for everyone affected by harm. Through practice-based learning, you’ll build skills to hold space for victims, those who caused harm, and community members. This is an in-person, 3-day...

May 4, 10am-12pm @ Carver Recreation Center Join local providers and community helpers for an interactive training focused on trauma-informed approaches and practical tools for supporting individuals and communities. This session includes skill-building, shared learning, and a facilitated community-building circle experience with Central Virginia Community Justice! FREE. Please register here. This event is part of Resilience...

April 22-23 @ Albemarle/Charlottesville Regional Jail This event will give you a deeper look into incarceration and alternatives to incarceration in our community. The tour of the jail, led by Col. Martin Kumer, superintendent, will offer a glimpse of conditions in the jail. This eye opening tour and discussion of mental health, rehabilitation, and re-entry...

Central Virginia Community Justice will be part of this panel presentation at the 2026 Hampton Roads Social Justice Conference, April 14-15. Learn more and register here!

Tuesday March 10, 6:30pm – 8pm Presented in partnership with the Tom Tom Foundation, The Courage to Repair asks a simple but profound question: What if courage meant facing harm with empathy, accountability, and a willingness to heal? In this interactive workshop, Erin Campbell of Central Virginia Community Justice (CVCJ) will introduce restorative frameworks and...

Thur. Nov. 20 5:00-7:00pm @ Kardinal Hall (722 Preston Ave. Charlottesville VA) Grab a drink, order your favorite Kardinal Hall fare, and join us to celebrate Restorative Justice Week – all while supporting justice and accountability in Central Virginia. This is a family friendly event. Thanks to the generosity of Kardinal Hall, 10% of all...

Thur. Nov. 20 8:30-10:00am Join us for an intimate discussion of what it’s really like to participate in a restorative justice process, with those who have been there. Moderated by Doron Samuel-Siegel, Professor of Law at University of Richmond, this conversation will give attendees a chance to peek inside some real restorative processes.  This event is...

Tue. Nov. 18, 5:30-8:00pm In this interactive session, Central Virginia Community Justice will introduce restorative frameworks and practices that can strengthen us as individuals and as an interconnected community.  CVCJ’s restorative justice services divert cases away from Albemarle & Charlottesville courtrooms so that crime and harms can be addressed directly by those most impacted. People...

Please join The Humanization Project on Facebook Live for 2 sessions highlighting restorative justice:

If you have never been in your local jail, now is the time. This tour, led by Col Martin Kumer, superintendent of the jail, will offer a glimpse at conditions in the jail. The Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail was built in 1974 and currently houses about 230 people who are awaiting trial or serving sentences not...

Date: Thur. Sep. 26 2024 5:30-7:30pm Location: The Jefferson School, 233 4th St. NW Charlottesville VA 22903 Join us for an evening of reflection, connection, and inspiration as we celebrate the strides made toward justice and explore ways to expand our impact. This event will celebrate and highlight CVCJ’s impactful restorative justice work from the...

Date/Time: 2nd Tuesday of the month (April 9, May 14, June 11 2024), 11:30am-12:30pm Location: Region Ten Blue Ridge Center, 100 Burnet St. Charlottesville VA 22902 Have you been charged with a crime or caused harm to someone and wish there was a way to make amends directly to the person you harmed? Have you...

Date: Wed. April 17, 2024 Location: Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail, 160 Peregory Ln, Charlottesville, VA 22902 If you have never been in your local jail, now is the time. This tour, led by Col. Martin Kumer, superintendent of the jail, will offer a glimpse at conditions in the jail. Following the tour, a Central Virginia Community...

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...

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...

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

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...