Victim Services
Margaret Wheatley "One of the easiest human acts is also the most healing. Listening to someone. Simply listening. Not advising or coaching, but silently and fully listening."
VICTIM HEALING & SUPPORT CIRCLE
Crime, violence, racial conflict, other issues that divide us--these tear apart the beautiful fabric of Community. How do we come together? How do we repair the harm that we cause one another? Are we our brother’s keeper, yes or no?
Frequently crime victims are not included in justice proceedings in a way that allows them to have a voice in determining what needs to be done to repair the harm they have experienced. Often that harm is never adequately addressed. A community-based Victim Healing and Support Circle provide a place for crime victims to receive the on-going support of the community as they work through the events that have happened to them. Such a Circle provides a place for ordinary folks to come together and to truly be, our brother’s keeper.
Men as Peacemakers will be host to a community-based Healing and Support Circle for victims of crime. The Circle is an open Circle and will meet the first Tuesdays of every month from 5 to 7:30 p.m. The Circle will be facilitated by trained staff and community members and will be held at the Men as Peacemakers office located at 205 W 2nd Street in Duluth, Minnesota. (Men as Peacemakers has a private entrance at ground level facing 2nd Street West across from Trepanier Hall in the former YWCA building.)
For more information about the Victim Healing and Support Circle, please call Nathan Kesti at 218-727-1939 or Ty Schroyer at 218-726-2323.
If you are interested in participating in this Circle, please click on the Victim Circle Application Form. You may fill it out on line and e-mail to: nate@menaspeacemakers.org, or you may print the form, fill it out and mail it to the address indicated on the form.
Nathan T. Kesti
Restorative Practice Program Coordinator
Men as Peacemakers
218-727-1939 ext.13