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Transitions

7/9/2018

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VCRJ founder Judy Clarke recently retired as Executive Director of VCRJ.  She wrote "After eight happy years serving as Founder and Executive Director of the Virginia Center for Restorative Justice, I have decided as of June 30, 2018, that I will step away.  I expect to remain a priceless VCRJ Volunteer!"   We are deeply grateful to Judy for her vision and years of devoted leadership, and look forward to her continued passion and service as a volunteer.  We wish her the best in her retirement, as she spends more time with her family and engages new opportunities. 

The new Executive Director is Daniel Foxvog, a consultant and mediator with an MA in Conflict Transformation from  Eastern Mennonite University.  He has worked as a conflict transformation trainer in Virginia, Illinois, and California, training students, teachers, pastors, police officers, and community volunteers.  He previously served as a case manager for a restorative justice program in Fresno, CA, where he worked with hundreds of juvenile offenders and their families, trained and supervised volunteer mediators, and facilitated meetings between victims and offenders.  He has also worked as a church consultant, a case manager for youth with mental illness, and a group dialogue facilitator.


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FAST MONEY VS. A REAL JOB

5/30/2014

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Last week I met a young man, 15 years old, who told me that it was better to make "fast money" than to work at a regular job. He decided that it was better to make money this way because you could buy things like a house and a fast car without having to pay taxes or show anything on paper. I didn't say anything.
The talking piece came around to this young man's Counselor and he said, "Yes, you may have those things for about five years. Then you will lose them because
you have no paper. And then you get new paper in the form of a sentence." I found that no more words were necessary.

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RETURNING CITIZENS

5/27/2014

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98% of those who are incarcerated will return to live in our community.  How do we want them to return............broken and bitter or healed and whole?  We have the opportunity to make a difference.  Reach out to someone who has just returned from prison.  Invite them for a cup of coffee.  Get to know them.  You may discover that just because they have done a bad thing doesn't make them a bad person.  You may the one person that they learn to trust.  You may have just the helping hand that they need in order to make a positive change and begin making good choices for their life.
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Offenders Want to Make Right the Harm

5/23/2014

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Each week that I go into prison to facilitate a "Dialog Circles Class" I hear the following, "Miss Judy, I can't believe that you and these volunteers care enough about us to keep coming back.  Why do you keep coming?"  I don't really have an answer.  I find it easy to care about these individuals who want so much to make things right.  All of us have made bad choices resulting in harm to someone else.  But we got a second chance.  Many of the inmates that I know committed their felonies when they were quite young.  They are completely different people today.  Do they deserve a second chance?  What do you think? 
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ART IN PRISON

5/22/2014

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While at prison, I noticed a beautiful wall mural painted by the inmates. It was about
12 feet tall and 20 feet wide. It was a simple country scene with a rolling
landscape dotted with delicate flowers and slightly hidden animals. You had to
stop and look carefully to find the red fox, a cardinal, and a butterfly among
others. Wouldn't it be great if all of us could see our world the way those
inmates see it from inside a prison cell?
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    Daniel Foxvog

    Daniel Foxvog,  MA, VCRJ Executive Director, completed
    his Bachelor’s degree in Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies at Goshen College and earned an M.A. in Conflict Transformation from Eastern Mennonite University.  

    He has worked as a conflict transformation trainer in Virginia, Illinois, and California, training students, teachers, pastors, police officers, and community volunteers.  He previously served as a case manager for a restorative justice program in Fresno, CA, where he worked with hundreds of juvenile offenders and their families, trained and supervised volunteer mediators, and facilitated meetings between victims and offenders. 

    ​He has also worked as a church consultant, a case manager for youth with mental illness, and a group dialogue facilitator



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