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TimeBanking and Community Justice

TimeBanking and Community Justice. Do-it-Together Public Safety, Accountability and Capacity Building. What would you do to improve your community if you could?. What if money were no object?. Is Money an Object?. But wait.

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TimeBanking and Community Justice

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  1. TimeBanking and Community Justice Do-it-Together Public Safety, Accountability and Capacity Building

  2. What would you do to improve your community if you could?

  3. What if money were no object?

  4. Is Money an Object? But wait...

  5. TimeBanking“We have what we need if we use what we have” -- Edgar Cahn Social Services Community Centers Community Justice Public & Private Institutions Local Business Dane County TimeBank Artists & Arts Organizations Local Food Production Faith-based

  6. “We have what we need if we use what we have” -- Edgar Cahn

  7. Community Market Economy

  8. TimeBank projects

  9. TimeBank Youth Court

  10. Additional Outcomes • ’11-’12 school year kids and schools earned 465.5 timebank hours.  Schools have used hours for yoga, workshops for staff, anger management for general population students, mentoring for general population students, getting students involved with TimeBank groups/orgs (RestArt), nonviolent conflict resolution classes, service learning opportunities at the Humane Society, and more.  Jurors have accessed bus passes, garden plots, one on one mentoring sessions, drum lessons, ongoing lifeskills counseling sessions, and more. • At West (2nd year), every single returning juror asked staff when youth court was going to start before I even began my office hours at the beginning of the year. • West also created a facebook group this year and is organizing themselves in terms of how many jurors we'll need on each night. • Replication opportunities: • Janesville,  Lacrosse, Hayward have expressed interest.  Ongoing consulting with Milwaukee.

  11. New Partnerships • Dane County Court Diversion • Exploring Adult Community Justice Opportunities

  12. What would you do to improve your community if you could? • What if money were no object? • How can we expand on what we’ve accomplished together so far?

  13. We learn by doing Do Do Learn Learn Fail Succeed Do Do Succeed Learn Do Learn Fail Fail Learn Trial and error

  14. We learn more if we share Do Do Learn Learn Fail Succeed Do Do Succeed Learn Do Learn Fail Fail Learn We avoid repeating mistakes

  15. We build on each other’s work Do Better Learn Share buildFTW.org

  16. And make new friends in the process

  17. We all know ways we want our world to be better.

  18. What are we waiting for?

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