Community Justice Center
CJC helps steward the connections.
CJC operates some pathways directly, trains and supports practitioners, convenes partners, and helps turn shared plans into usable public infrastructure.
Visit CJCCommunity Justice Fresno
Community justice takes all of us.
Fresno already has people, relationships, knowledge, organizations, and lived experience that help communities move through conflict and harm. Community Justice Fresno is about making those strengths easier to find, connect, and grow.
Find what you need. Bring what you can. Together, we can build what Fresno needs next.
Start where you are
There is more than one way into community justice.
You do not need to understand the system first. Choose the doorway that sounds most like you.
I need support
Start with what is happening.
Conflict, a difficult conversation, a family concern, harm, or simply not knowing where to begin.
Find a place to beginI want to learn
Build skills you can use.
Learn practical ways to navigate conflict, strengthen relationships, and practice community justice.
Learn with CJCI do this work
Practice alongside others.
For mediators, facilitators, advocates, mentors, youth workers, educators, and other community practitioners.
Explore practiceMy organization wants to connect
Bring what you already have.
Services, practitioners, space, knowledge, referrals, relationships, and ideas can strengthen what Fresno can do together.
Explore connected organizationsFind what you need
Begin with life, not a program name.
Sometimes CJC is the right next step. Sometimes the right answer lives with a partner or public system. The first job is helping the options become clearer.
Your choice still matters.
Where participation is voluntary, people should be able to understand their options, ask questions, pause, participate, or decide another path fits better. Safety duties, court orders, mandatory reporting, and other legal obligations still apply.
Conflict or a hard conversation
Slow things down, understand options, try practical tools, or connect with mediation support.
ExploreA young person or school situation
Explore prevention, school climate, conflict response, family support, youth voice, and restorative options.
ExploreComing home or rebuilding stability
Explore accountability, reintegration, relationships, practical support, and connection back to community.
ExploreRepair after harm
Understand when a restorative process may create meaningful voice, responsibility, accountability, and repair.
ExploreI am not sure what I need
You do not need the right program name. Start with the situation and let the next step become clearer.
ExploreBring what you can
Community capacity grows when what people have can meet what people need.
Community justice is not only something professionals deliver. Fresno already carries knowledge, relationships, places, skills, resources, and forms of care that can become part of a stronger community response.
TimeLived experienceTrusted relationshipsMeeting spaceCultural knowledgeMediation skillsYouth mentorshipNeighborhood presenceTransportationTraining capacityEmployment connectionsFunding or sponsorshipVolunteer timeA willingness to show up
How it connects
Connect the pieces without asking one organization to own everything.
Community Justice Network
Shared work where collaboration helps.
CJN gives practitioners and organizations a place to connect around defined projects, referrals, practice, and shared learning without erasing partner identity or governance.
Visit the NetworkPartner organizations
Local identity stays local.
Schools, nonprofits, public agencies, neighborhood groups, funders, and other partners define their own roles. Connection should make useful handoffs easier, not turn everything into a CJC program.
Explore connected organizationsPractice and grow
Community capacity also needs supported practitioners.
Learning, supported practice, demonstrated readiness, defined projects, reflection, and growth belong in one understandable path.
A Fresno thread
This idea has been growing here for a long time.
Community Justice Fresno is not a claim that nothing existed before. Fresno has accumulated decades of practice, relationships, institutions, and learning. The opportunity is to connect more of that capacity and make it easier to reach.
A framework
Fresno published Restorative Justice: A Framework for Fresno: a community-centered vision extending beyond any one program or institution.
A network
Fresno DRIVE advanced a Community Justice Network and Community Justice Center vision spanning prevention, restorative practice, reintegration, and local capacity.
Make it usable
The opportunity now is to make community-justice support, learning, practitioners, organizations, and shared infrastructure easier to find and connect.
Build what Fresno needs next
People first. Then the infrastructure that helps the work last.
A shared place, access funding, practitioner investment, and durable operating support are tools for strengthening community capacity—not the definition of community justice.
Community Justice Campus
A home for learning, convening, practice, and community access.
Community Justice Access Fund
Help keep cost or capacity from closing the door.
Longer-term investment
Pay people and strengthen the organizations around them.
Community Justice Fresno
Find what you need. Bring what you can.
The people are already here. The organizations are already here. The knowledge and relationships are already here. The work is to make those strengths easier to reach, connect, and grow.
Community justice takes all of us.
Community Justice Fresno is a CJC-led community initiative.
Public review · developing partner roles and fund concepts remain subject to confirmation.
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Follow CJC’s work, share what you’re seeing, or get occasional updates about trainings and community events.