Support Criminal Legal Reform in Washtenaw County!

WALK FOR UNITY & JUSTICE

Interested in fundraising and walking as a community service opportunity, and scoring positive exposure for your company/organization/group? Set your group’s fundraising goal and recruit employees, colleagues, friends and family!

We are asking community members to rally their friends, family, and networks to support the DRC's work. By becoming a group fundraiser for our organization, you will help keep adults and youth our of the criminal legal system through Restorative Justice in Washtenaw County, and be part of lasting and impactful change.

Starting a fundraiser is easy to do! We'll even give you all the tools you'll need to make a difference with messaging templates. With your help we can keep people out of the criminal legal system, keep families together, and bring healing and wholeness to our communities.

If you are setting up a group fundraising page, this is also your registration for the event. At the start of each walk route, we will have a registration line specifically set-up for groups.

Here is a comprehensive guide about successful strategies for group or peer-to-peer fundraising:

https://www.bonterratech.com/blog/peer-to-peer-fun...

For assistance, contact Kevin Werner, wernerk@thedrcmi.org

ABOUT BRIDGING 23 UNITY WALK

WHAT IS RESTORATIVE JUSTICE?

The DRC is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, community dispute resolution program partnering with the Washtenaw County Prosecutor's Office to offer a healing approach outside of the criminal legal system.

The Restorative Justice Program is an alternative to the traditional criminal legal system that offers a survivor centered and healing model to address wrongdoing, harm or crime.

The restorative justice approach is deeply rooted in North American Indigenous cultural and sacred practices to address harm or wrongdoing between all involved.

Restorative or healing circles aim to create safe space for all involved to:

• Address the harm(s)
• Enable the survivor to be heard
• Provide an opportunity for the person who committed the harm(s) to make amends
• Assist the survivor and the one who caused the harm to create a plan for re-entering their communities, and
• Foster understanding, connection, and reconciliation

HONORING COMMUNITY, CONNECTION, CULTURE

We continue to honor local black history in Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti and bring forth the contributions of the black community. We are proud to partner with the African American Cultural Historical Museum of Washtenaw County - who has preserved local Black history for decades.

We want to ensure that black legacies and voices in our community are not erased from our local history; that the truth of black history is celebrated and honored with reverence; and to embrace and celebrate the deep cultural roots of the black community that enriches us all.

We are proud to partner with Brown Chapel AME Church and the African American Cultural and Historical Museum of Washtenaw County.

*All proceeds support the DRC's Restorative Justice programming.