This piece was compiled following interviews with the staff, informal chats, observations and more formal restorative circles. In our overview of the implementation process, among others, we highlighted one challenge: two years into the implementation, approximately...
BYC is the first Youth Club in Ireland to have such an ambitious plan for RP. If youth workers and youth service are using RP in their daily work (see for examples these testimonies from Cabra for Youth or Clare Youth Service), no other youth organisation has...
Community of practices (CoPs) are an important part of the RP implementation process. They prevent teams from falling into one of the mis-implementation traps listed by Evans and Gregory(2020), the “train and hope” approach, where there is no support for the teams...
On Friday 26th May, Belvedere Youth Club launched its Restorative Practice Strategy, inviting all the stakeholders engaged in the process since it started in 2019: all the BYC team, funders, supporters, advisers, local representatives and the broader community of...
In 2019, BYC secured funding from SMBC Aviation Capital through the Community Foundation for Ireland to facilitate the refurbishment of the building and the creation of a hub for Restorative Practice (RP). An RP committee was set up among board members to look at the...
Approach A lot of time, thinking and effort was put into designing an implementation strategy for BYC. It was informed by many discussions, as explained in our article about the BYC model. It followed best practices as much as possible - see for example Childhood...