Truancy Court Program Healing Circles: A Creative Approach to Client-Centered Lawyering

By Laura Opont, CFCC Student Fellow (2019-2020) Healing Circles are a restorative practice used in the Truancy Court Program (TCP). Restorative practices have existed for decades and courts started incorporating them in the 1970s to facilitate mediation between victims and their offenders. Restorative practices have spread throughout North America and Europe and  have roots in…