The Conflict Center

Through youth and adult skill building classes and Conflict management workshops, individuals are empowered to see and use Conflict as an opportunity to grow, learn, and create positive change in their lives. Our skill building classes, addressing Conflict and anger effectively (adults) and rethinking Conflict (youth), provide an opportunity to become equipped with new skills to communicate effectively to solve problems and build relationships. Our mix of understanding anger and emotions with Conflict management skills helps participants work through defensiveness and build a shared understanding with others, ultimately finding mutually satisfactory solutions to sources of Conflict. All our classes are offered both in person and virtually, to provide additional accessibility for participants. We offer a variety of professional development workshops related to topics such Conflict management, communication and team building as well, training over 450 participants at organizations across denver, as well as nationally.

Our healthy relationship campaigns focus on The six types of abuse: physical, emotional, sexual, stalking, financial/economic, and digital. We worked with youth leaders from The schools as well as high school interns to develop relevant and impactful campaigns. Reading for peace is a completely volunteer-run, multi-generational reading program for elementary schools devoted to reading and discussing The books which teach and reinforce The socio-emotional skills. Reading for peace volunteers read in-person at five schools, serving 753 elementary students. Volunteers assisted at peace day/peace in a box, distributing 1,000 activity boxes and books to children and families to serve as a summer bridge for social and emotional skill building. Boxes were distributed directly to families at an in-person event as well as through seven partner agencies.

Through school partnerships, The organization partners with educators and schools to foster a community of inclusion, where students feel safe to be themselves and nurtured to build positive relationships. Restorative practices offers an alternative to punitive discipline in schools. Restorative practices is a philosophy, not a curriculum, that focuses on building positive relationships and providing opportunities for community members to take responsibility for their behavior while remaining connected to The community. Restorative practices are rooted in social justice, directly disrupting The school-to-prison-pipeline. Through restorative practices we utilize tools to hold students accountable for their actions while keeping them in school and out of The school-to- prison-pipeline by implementing practices that reduce The disproportionality high disciplinary referrals, suspensions and expulsions of children of color and; therefore reducing The odds that students will subsequently become involved in The juvenile justice system. Tcc worked with schools across five school districts in The metro area this fiscal year. Restorative denver takes these principles and applies them to The criminal legal system, through a partnership with The denver district attorney's office. In this fiscal year, 120 cases were referred to restorative denver, providing an "off ramp" from The criminal legal system.

Our healthy relationship campaigns focus on The six types of abuse: physical, emotional, sexual, stalking, financial/economic, and digital. We worked with youth leaders from The schools as well as high school interns to develop relevant and impactful campaigns. Reading for peace is a completely volunteer-run, multi-generational reading program for elementary schools devoted to reading and discussing The books which teach and reinforce The socio-emotional skills. Reading for peace volunteers read in-person at five schools, serving 753 elementary students. Volunteers assisted at peace day/peace in a box, distributing 1,000 activity boxes and books to children and families to serve as a summer bridge for social and emotional skill building. Boxes were distributed directly to families at an in-person event as well as through seven partner agencies.