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Community-Centered Healing: Restorative Justice in Action

April 22, 2024/by Christine Evans

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Coordinated each year by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) and supported by survivor advocacy groups and organizations across the country, SAAM focuses on raising awareness about the prevalence of sexual harm, providing support resources for survivors, and educating communities on prevention strategies. The focus of this year’s […]

Empowering Women: Reimagining Justice and Healing

March 8, 2024/by Christine Evans

Happy International Women’s Day! This global celebration honors women’s achievements and calls for us to imagine a gender-equal world, free of bias and discrimination. The IWD campaign theme for 2024 is ‘Inspire Inclusion.’ As highlighted by the official website, “When we inspire others to understand and value women’s inclusion, we forge a better world.” Too […]

Honoring the Legacy of Leaders

February 29, 2024/by Christine Evans

In our work, the team at Shared Roots Mediation strives to honor and recognize the communities that originally built, nurtured, and modeled the healing-centered models of justice that we use in our practice today. We are following in the footsteps of generations of activists, organizers, and visionaries from Indigenous, Black, and other historically marginalized communities […]

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Inaugural Chicago Learning Community on Restorative Justice for Sexual Harm
All summer long, the inaugural Chicago Learning Community on Restorative Justice for Sexual Harm has been meeting at the Shared Roots Collective space every Tuesday night to dive deep into what a restorative justice program addressing sexual harm can look like in practice and to train in becoming facilitators for these types of community-held cases. […]
Summer Reading List
How We Show Up by Mia BirdsongHow We Show Up reimagines connection and community in a time of deep isolation. Birdsong challenges the idea that family and support must follow traditional structures, and instead offers a beautifully grounded blueprint for how we can build belonging through mutual care, vulnerability, and intentional relationships. It’s affirming, hopeful, […]
Self-Care for the Summer
Summer often arrives with full calendars, longer days, and the hum of activity. Amidst the sunshine and movement, it can be easy to forget to slow down and care for ourselves with the same tenderness we offer others. At Shared Roots Collective, we believe self-care doesn’t have to be extravagant or time-consuming, it can be […]
Race Matters: Black Women Face Unique Barriers to Healing from Sexual Violence
Sexual violence in the United States remains at epidemic levels, affecting people across race, ethnicity, class, and gender identities. Research clearly demonstrates that Black women face heightened risk of both sexual victimization and its devastating mental and physical health consequences compared to White women. This increased vulnerability stems from systemic factors – poverty, childhood trauma, […]
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