Restorative Justice with Mark McKenzie on WSBA/WARM103

Jan 21, 2018 | News, Restorative Justice

Listen as Mark McKenzie, from WSBA and WARM103, brings Molly Sollenberger and Chris Fitz on the air, this past fall, to discuss Advoz’s restorative justice through face-to-face dialogue involving crime victims and offenders. Also chronicled on the video Make Things Right, Molly talks here about how she was involved as a crime victim to make things right with the young offenders involved — and what her dialogue accomplished. Listen now…

Read More from the Advoz Blog

Advoz’s 2018-2019 Annual Report: Core Concentration

Jan 8, 2020 |

Restorative Justice Victim Offender Conferencing cases continue to be about half of Advoz's caseload, primarily referred from Lancaster County's Juvenile Probation and Juvenile Court. Your dollars were a long-term community investment as we concentrated on core...

A Voice of Welcome: Addrienne Whitfield

A Voice of Welcome: Addrienne Whitfield

Dec 17, 2019 |

Advoz has a new friendly voice who could be answering your phone call; Addrienne Whitfield began in September as Advoz’s administrative assistant. She joins the organization from the travel and service industry where she brings extensive customer service experience...

Cutting through the Buzz: Facilitating Summer Learning

Cutting through the Buzz: Facilitating Summer Learning

Aug 19, 2019 |

By Jake Rauchberg There was a buzz in the room. Between my excitement for my first Advoz program and the white noise engulfing the space, I could barely hear myself think. But it wasn’t the sort of buzz that you normally hear when you walk into a church on the...

Peacebuilding across Generations: Elliot Martin

Peacebuilding across Generations: Elliot Martin

Aug 17, 2019 |

By Skyler Gibbon, Advoz Intern Hearing his father’s stories around the dinner table inspired Elliot Martin to get involved with Advoz. “It sounded beautiful. There are really important principles of restorative justice. Needing to address the harm in conflict is...

Spreading Peace Across Generations: Tim Martin

Spreading Peace Across Generations: Tim Martin

Aug 14, 2019 |

By Skyler Gibbon, Advoz Intern Meet Tim and Elliot Martin, a father son duo volunteering with Advoz. After years of conversations about cases around the dinner table, Elliot decided to try it out for himself this spring. He joined the victim offender conferencing...

Calling All Volunteer (Peace Makers)

Aug 6, 2019 |

There are many ways one can contribute their time and skills to this work at Advoz! Calls continue into our office: conflicts, crimes, broken relationships. Can you answer this call for peacemakers in our community? We are looking for volunteers to help community...

Welcome Krista Rittenhouse

Welcome Krista Rittenhouse

Aug 5, 2019 |

Krista Rittenhouse got involved with Advoz training and volunteering in our Restorative Justice Conferencing program this spring. But she went above and beyond the call of duty by successfully reaching out to dozens of people impacted by crime and violations on the...

Making Peace ~ Poetry & Practice

Making Peace ~ Poetry & Practice

Aug 1, 2019 |

Each month, youth and parents have a chance to practice being peacemakers in their own world, family, school, friends, community. It's a class called Making Peace and the youth, often referred by Youth Aid Panels from school fights and other first-time incidents,...