PROGRAMS & IMPACT

Projects

Restorative Justice Movement (RJM) offers healing-centered, community-based programs that address harm, foster accountability, and support transformation. Our work includes restorative dialogue and circle processes, intergenerational engagement, and culturally rooted healing practices. We support individuals in recovery, our unhoused community, and those navigating mental health or life transitions through wellness-focused, creative, and community-building activities. Our outreach provides essential resources, harm reduction tools, and education directly to communities in need. We also offer training, peer support, and educational opportunities to help participants and professionals reclaim purpose and build sustainable futures. Through it all, RJM remains committed to justice, connection, and collective healing.

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REPAIR
The Restorative Approach ( Circle Sessions )

RJM creates spaces for individuals and communities to process trauma and conflict in ways that honor emotional truth and foster genuine healing. Through restorative circles, community dialogues, and accountability processes, those affected by harm are heard, validated, and supported. Survivors regain voice and agency; those who have caused harm are invited to make amends and grow.

REBUILD
-Legacy-

The Bridges program is a culturally responsive initiative designed to introduce, restorative practices, generational and cultural value. The program engages youth—from elementary through high school—and community elders in a journey of learning, understanding and healing

Over 350 members have participated in program between 2023- 2025

RESTORE
-Institution to Identity

Recovery in Motion is a holistic engagement program designed for individuals navigating recovery from substance use, managing mental health challenges, or transitioning through life’s many stages. It expands participants' experiences of joy, healing, and connection through culturally rich activities rooted in community. Using St. Louis landmarks as touchpoints, the program creates opportunities for self-discovery and collective exploration. Through history, the arts, music, and cultural traditions.

Over 200 members have participated in this program between 2023- 2025

RENEW
-We are OUR Community -cultural awareness

RJM’s weekly outreach divides St. Louis into four quadrants, allowing us to meet each community’s unique needs with care and intention. Led by staff and volunteers with lived experience, the program centers relationship-building as a pathway to healing harm and restoring dignity.

Each outreach effort includes the delivery of essential items, educational materials on the RJM Movement, and a curated packet of local resources. Our goal is to provide sustainable, transformational support to individuals, families, and communities, grounded in self-worth, shared responsibility, and collective accountability.

Over the last 15 years we have serviced over 50,000 community members

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Wellness & Wellbeing

This initiative supports holistic practices for professional and personal well-being. Organizations and individuals will explore strategies for mental health maintenance, self-awareness, and alignment within position as well as purpose, we will highlight symptoms of trauma, compassion fatigue, burnoutand professional "drifting" .

Through an examination of harm, relational trauma, nonverbal behavior, triggers, and responses, the program offers tools to foster emotional accountability and strengthen interpersonal dynamics. Emphasizing self-care and decompression, the model centers relationship-building as a core practice for being in right relationship with oneself and others.

Community Partners & Programs
Project Pack

RJM + UMSL Addiction Science Partnership

Restorative Justice Movement (RJM) and UMSL’s Addiction Science Department partner to combat the opioid crisis through a community-led harm reduction initiative. Together, they assemble overdose response kits—including Narcan, bag valve masks, fentanyl test strips, and educational materials—packaged by local community members. This hands-on effort not only saves lives but also empowers individuals with lived experience to play a vital role in public health and healing

RJM has compiled over 36,000 Fentanyl test strips and 52,5,00 resource kits to be distributed throughout the state of Missouri as a result of partnering with UMSL Science Addiction dept with the Project Pak initiative.