MISSION: The Virginia Center for Restorative Justice will encourage respect and mutual empowerment in the community and demonstrate effective, evidenced-based, restorative practices. 

PURPOSE: Our purpose is to provide the community with innovative, cooperative, and restorative ways to resolve differences and transform relationships. The Center will: 
(a) provide restorative justice services to schools, juvenile courts, jails & prisons, and churches; 
(b) train facilitators to provide the services necessary; 
(c) educate the community about restorative justice, its uses and its benefits; and 
(d) foster policies that enhance opportunities for restorative justice to be implemented.