Who we are

  • Registered non-profit society
  • Partners with the Blackfalds, Rimbey, and Bashaw RCMP
  • Coordinated and operated by community volunteers
  • Oversight by a Board of Directors
  • Supported by Red Deer and Lacombe Counties
  • Member of the Alberta Restorative Justice Association
Meet the team

Vision

Communities value, support and utilize Restorative Justice processes as a first response to harms.

Mission

  • The RRDRJ program offers a facilitated approach for individuals harmed to express the impact of the harm to those responsible, thereby fostering accountability, healing, repairing harm, restoring relationships, and building community.
  • We involve individuals, families, schools, businesses, and social support programs in restorative practices, processes, and learning opportunities to promote the creation of safe and supportive communities.

Read our Strategic Plan for 2024-2027

The RJ program adheres to these basic principles:
  • Focus on the harm not the rules broken
  • Restore trust through empowerment and responding to needs
  • Provide opportunities for open dialogue in a safe space
  • Encourage collaboration and reintegration not coercion and isolation.
The objectives of every interaction are:
  • To provide a safe, timely, accessible, acceptable, appropriate and effective community-based response to crime as an alternate justice program.
  • To provide high-quality service to all participants in a restorative process – person(s) harmed, wrongdoers and members of the wider community. 
  • To support satisfaction in results achieved with person(s) harmed, wrongdoers, referral agents and community
  • To increase  level of empathy between person(s) harmed and wrongdoers.
  • To increase level of accountability with wrongdoers