Mimi Kim, Founder Creative Interventions and INCITE

“…My drive to call it community accountability just really highlighted that we’re talking about something  that’s happening in the community…
we’re asking not only people who have caused harm to be accountable, but we’re asking our communities to be accountable for changing our social norms on approaches to gender-based violence….”

Our community accountability services

People responsible for sexual harm

Our programs & services assist people in their accountability process by offering trauma-informed support, education and individual casework; to support their initiatives towards repairing harm.

Partners, family members and impacted others

Family members, partners or members of the community who are supporting people who have been harmed or accountable for harm, have their own impacts and needs.

Our group and casework services can enable people in support roles to talk about their own needs, impacts and what can assist them.

REVIVE: PREVENTION OF RISK OF HARM

REVIVE: Prevention helps support people at risk of causing harm to understand accountability, build empathy and create a safety plan so that harm doesn’t happen.

There is are also support groups for any impacted loved ones who are seeking support.

Contact: revive@transformingjustice.org.au

REVIVE: RESPONSE FOR PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE

REVIVE: Response helps support people who have already identified that they have caused harm, and want to learn more about their accountability, build empathy and create a safety plan so harm doesn’t occur again.

Contact: revive@transformingjustice.org.au

SUPPORT FOR FAMILY MEMBERS AND
IMPACTED OTHERS IN THE COMMUNITY

Family members, partners or members of the community who are supporting people who have been harmed or accountable for harm, have their own impacts and needs.

Our group and casework services can enable people in support roles to talk about their own needs, impacts and what can assist them.

Regardless of whether their loved one has commenced their own accountability journey impacted others can engage with our group program and casework services.

Contact: revive@transformingjustice.org.au

ACCOUNTABILIY CASEWORK

We understand and recognise that like healing, and recovery, accountability is a journey and a process and are committed to supporting all people using restorative approaches.

Casework services are available for people at any stage of their accountability process; as well as impacted family and community members.

Please contact revive@transformingjustice.org.au for more information about our accountability support and casework services.

AFTER CARE SUPPORT

After care support is available for people who have graduated from the REVIVE Education program.

Contact revive@transformingjustice.org.au

Outline of REVIVE Education and Support Group Program content

What is the REVIVE education program about?

Participants in our 10 week online education program learn to identify and practice healthy sexual behaviours, recognise triggers for harmful thoughts or actions, build empathy, develop prevention plans, and to support their initiatives towards repairing harm.

Topics in the online 10 week education group include:

  • Introduction and group rules

  • Healthy relationships and consent

  • Journey to accountability

  • Self-awareness and gender

  • Sexual harm and dysregulated behaviour

  • Pornography

  • Impacts of sexual harm & building empathy

  • Managing risky behaviour

  • Supporting accountability

  • Review and next steps

The Support group for others impacted (PREVENTION) also includes:

  • Self-Compassion and Emotions

  • Disclosure

  • Trauma

  • Disenfranchised Grief

  • Coping with Loss and Change

  • Boundaries and Resilience

  • Communication and Intimacy

  • Others impacted group (Response) includes discussion of “Navigating one’s way through “the system”

  • Others impacted (Prevention) includes Self-Compassion and Emotions, Disclosure, Trauma, Disenfranchised Grief and Coping with Loss and Change, Boundaries and Resilience, Communication and Intimacy

  • “…One virtue of the active responsibility of an offender's loved ones is that it nurtures active responsibility on the part of the offender. Restorative justice is about creating a space where offenders are most likely to take responsibility…”

    John Braithwaite

  • "When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path to another who may be walking in darkness."

    Maya Angelou

  • “Retributive theory believes that pain will vindicate, but in practice that is often counterproductive for both victim and offender. Restorative justice theory, on the other hand, argues that what truly vindicates is acknowledgment of victims’ harms and needs, combined with an active effort to encourage offenders to take responsibility, make right the wrongs, and address the causes of their behavior. By addressing this need for vindication in a positive way, restorative justice has the potential to affirm both victim and offender and to help them transform their lives.”

    ― Howard Zehr

  • “…how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?”

    — bell hooks