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	<title>...in the service of social justice</title>
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	<description>Family Conferencing. Restorative Justice. Wraparound. Social Justice.</description>
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		<title>Model Mania</title>
		<link>http://restorativepractice.org/blog/?p=64</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>clmyers</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Even as we type, my colleague and good friend David is in Portland Oregon, teaching a couple of courses on facilitating family decision making group-based service teams.  What a mouthful THAT phrase was!  These courses are based on work he and I have done here at CFRP over the past dozen or so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Have We Been???</title>
		<link>http://restorativepractice.org/blog/?p=62</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>clmyers</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Betcha thought we&#8217;d abandoned this blog, died, been taken hostage or some other equally improbable tragedy.  Truth is we had the temerity to change web hosts and got our comeuppance accordingly.  Could not get this blog moved over to save our life!  Then when we DID get it moved, it was missing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facilitation: Content-Neutral, Process Advocate</title>
		<link>http://restorativepractice.org/blog/?p=59</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>clmyers</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Being neutral doesn&#8217;t mean you are passive.   Good facilitators know when to pull the group&#8217;s attention toward them and when to step back and get out of the way.  You should take a seat or otherwise get out of the way when a group is talking well about its content (aka topics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facilitation: Neutrality and why it matters</title>
		<link>http://restorativepractice.org/blog/?p=56</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 21:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>clmyers</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[  A word today about facilitator neutrality: what it is, what it isn&#8217;t and why it&#8217;s essential to program success. Many programs assume that a counselor or social worker is (or should be) prepared to facilitate team meetings.  We beg to differ.  Our facilitation model is based on the work first developed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fun With Decision-Making</title>
		<link>http://restorativepractice.org/blog/?p=33</link>
		<comments>http://restorativepractice.org/blog/?p=33#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>clmyers</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Decision-making is a fascinating field.    Do you know the difference between a &#34;tough&#34; decision and a &#34;bad&#34; one? Not every bad outcome is the result of a bad decision, just like not every GOOD outcome is the result of a good decision. Decision theorists describe tough decisions as ones that are:

Complex
Ambiguous, and/or
Conflictual

 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Collaboratives: Do they work?</title>
		<link>http://restorativepractice.org/blog/?p=53</link>
		<comments>http://restorativepractice.org/blog/?p=53#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 02:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>clmyers</dc:creator>
		
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     Yesterday I was treated to a conversation with Dr. Eugene Bardach.  Some years back, he wrote about the Coordinated Youth Services Council in a book about collaboration.  He came back, a dozen or so years later, to find out what happened to that collaborative in the long run. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Medicating a kid for a heartache&#8221;: the mental health of foster children</title>
		<link>http://restorativepractice.org/blog/?p=51</link>
		<comments>http://restorativepractice.org/blog/?p=51#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 22:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>clmyers</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Child Welfare]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here is an excellent editorial on this subject, sent by my friend Lynn at First Five of Marin. In a nutshell, this piece brings our attention to the mental health needs of foster children and the ways our systems have failed to meet them.&#160; Specifically, it says, psychiatric assessments and care are not provided soon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reconciliation for You and Me and Kids Without a Home</title>
		<link>http://restorativepractice.org/blog/?p=43</link>
		<comments>http://restorativepractice.org/blog/?p=43#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>clmyers</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Child Welfare]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["Reconciliation" Margaret Adams Parker]]></description>
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		<title>Moral Dilemmas Part Deux: When Social Worlds Collide</title>
		<link>http://restorativepractice.org/blog/?p=41</link>
		<comments>http://restorativepractice.org/blog/?p=41#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>clmyers</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Family Conferencing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today while walking across the parking lot I encountered one of our conference facilitators who asked me to say a word about &#8220;what happens when moral issues come up in conferences&#8221;. I peppered her with questions: how do these conversations differ from any other conversations in which there are intense feelings, difficult decisions and controversy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teatro Dependency Court</title>
		<link>http://restorativepractice.org/blog/?p=39</link>
		<comments>http://restorativepractice.org/blog/?p=39#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>clmyers</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Child Welfare]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Social Justice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few years, we&#39;ve taken an interest in &#34;contested hearings&#34; in child dependency court.  That&#39;s where the children&#39;s welfare system wants to remove a child from their home and one or more of their parents/guardians is &#34;contesting&#34; the order.  It goes to court and the judge decides.   In our [...]]]></description>
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