Interning for Mediation: Riley Sloat

Jan 25, 2023 | Mediation, News

I am Riley Sloat, and I am currently a senior at Elizabethtown Senior Highschool. I am interested in having a career as a mediator due to the business and Personal Law class I took in my sophomore year, wherein part of the curriculum was to do a mock...

Making Peace Workshop Referral

Feb 23, 2022 | Making Peace

We just published an updated referral form for our Making Peace Workshop (below). As more partners in our juvenile justice system are again working in person, this is an incredibly valuable resource to build communication and conflict resolution skills in every...

Intern Stories: Meet Brelan Wilcher

Dec 9, 2021 | News

Brelan Wilcher, operations intern and Millersville University Social Work major Using practices centered around Mediation and Restorative Justice, Advoz centers around healing the harm caused within the community. In one way, it aims to achieve this by serving as a...

Working Upstream to Undo “Criminal Minds”

Aug 18, 2021 | News

By Chris Fitz “Matthew” was only 13 years old. But this wasn’t his first run-in with the law. In our meeting, he fluently relayed the ways that adults in his neighborhood called the police about him—and how those complaints added up. He used terms like...

Represent! The Power of Stepping into Harm as a “Victim Representative”

Aug 11, 2021 | News

By Krista Rittenhouse Consider this question: What are the odds of success for a young man of 16, who already has a record, dark skin, is in a single-parent home, and has already experienced prison? We can agree, and research shows that he has an uphill battle. One...