Welcome to The Circle: Community Works May 2026 Newsletter!
This edition focuses on turning our restorative vision into concrete action. In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, we are bridging the gap between internal organizational care and state-level policy frontlines to show exactly what a values-aligned ecosystem looks like in motion.
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Grounding the Blueprint: We sat down with Restorative Practice Strategist Kevin Martin to unpack our internal ideology. Kevin pulls back the curtain on building a peer-led onboarding culture with Human Resources, showing why true external advocacy is only as powerful as our internal foundation.
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Human Resources Reimagined: True restorative practice cannot be passive. By collaborating directly with HR, we have shifted internal systems away from traditional, punitive environments and toward an uncompromised, reciprocal culture of consensus and agreement-building.
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Moving Alignment to Impact: We are taking our strategy out of the shadows and straight to the frontlines of policy in Sacramento. With voting season in full swing, ensuring our community understands how restorative values translate into state-level power is more urgent than ever.
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Our 2026 Priority List: From co-sponsoring AB 1646 (The HUG Act) to protect juvenile visitation rights, to expanding non-police crisis interventions through the CRISES Grant Pilot (AB 1932), we are fighting for systematic, actionable systems change.
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