co-creating
futures without violence
UPCOMING COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS
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Advisory Board
gather local wisdom into a representative
spring 2025
connect & learn in local
community conversations
SUMMER 2025
consentric circles
circle up for intimate survivor centered conversation in
fall and
winter 2025
rj pilot program
implementing long term solutions informed by community
spring 2026
Starting
this summer
Healing Courage joins with the newly created Jefferson county Advisory Council for Community & Restorative Justice to launch an initiative that aims to address harm in our community with a focus on healing, accountability & repair.
This collaborative effort will cultivate a series of conversations and circles to inform the implementation of a community-based, restorative justice Pilot Program designed to improve justice outcomes for elder survivors of intimate violence.
Intimate harm, elder abuse, and sexual violence don't happen in a vacuum. These interpersonal violations take place in the context of relationships. They often happen in the context of community. The impacts of these violations are far-reaching, socially complex, and can be lifelong.
Through community conversations this summer, we’ll address intimate harm in the context of community and explore the complexities surrounding these community issues. Together, we’ll challenge the cultural myths that often silence survivors, name the barriers many face within the criminal legal system, and explore the need for restorative, community-based responses to harm.
This fall, we’ll launch a Consentric Circles series—a healing and learning conversation developed by Healing Courage that centers survivor wisdom, deep listening, and meaningful dialogue as tools for transformation.
While this initiative focuses on elder survivors of intimate violence (age 50+), this project will also serve survivors of other forms of elder harm, including emotional/psychological abuse, financial exploitation, neglect, and abandonment. This collective effort has the potential to extend well beyond this pilot and help our county move towards a more just and restorative Jefferson County, across all ages, sectors, and systems of care.
Whether you're a victim-survivor, family member, community member, advocate, or simply curious about how we can better support those impacted by harm, your voice is welcome and needed.
A council
of community
The advisory council guideS Engagement, Education and Conversation, to Inform the development, implementation, and evaluation of the restorative justice pilot program,
grounding the work in restorative practices and input gathered from the Jefferson County community.
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Angel Afford, LMHC, SUDP, Clinical Director of Addiction Recovery Services, Discovery Behavioral Healthcare
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Tonia Burkett, Usawa Consulting
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Marisa Withey Byrne, Community Advocate, Moonlit Path Advocacy
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Erika Dawn Coyer, Restorative Facilitator, Quilcene School District
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Anne Dean, Vice President of Social Impact, Olympic Peninsula YMCA
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Suzie Duscha, Community Advocate & Restorative Justice Facilitator
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Mary Irwin, Executive Director, Peninsula Dispute Resolution Center
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Lily Haight, Jefferson Associated Counsel Defense Investigator
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Beulah Kingsolver, Executive Director, Dove House Advocacy Services
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Susan Larson, Founder, Beyond Bars SPC
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Brandon Mack, Jefferson County Superior Court Judge
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Jessica MacKinnon, PhD, Clinical/Forensic Psychologist, Chief Clinical Officer, Chief Operating Officer (Interim), Discovery Behavioral Healthcare
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Rebecca Marriot, Court Coordinator, Family Therapeutic Court
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Andy Pernsteiner, Sheriff, Jefferson County
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Lilly Powers, JD, Public Defender, Jefferson Associated Counsel
Healing Courage
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Grace Crowley, M. Ed., Research Director, Healing Courage, Employment Case Manager, TRAC Associates, Ph.D. Student, University of Washington
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Alexis Rose, Creative Director & Co-Founder, Healing Courage, Artist
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Michelle Seyler, Policy Director, Healing Courage
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Stephanie Burns, MA Restorative Justice, Director & Co-Founder, Healing Courage