Transformative Justice Help Desk

Interrupting Criminalization offers a Transformative Justice Help Desk consultation service for our partners working on projects and community-wide interventions to transform harm.

The TJ Help Desk is available by appointment to offer thought partnership and one-on-one consultation to:

  • Organizations/Groups/Individuals who are working on projects and community-wide interventions to end violence without using the police.

  • Community Accountability Facilitators who are currently experiencing a challenge in a process they are holding. This challenge could be with their team or process design or with building a network of facilitators in their own town.

  • Abolitionist Social Workers or Service Providers who are working inside larger institutions like hospitals, schools or non-profits who need thought partnership to navigate applying abolitionist politics within their work setting.

  • Palestine Solidarity Organizers to think through safety, security, formation building and more.

Is the Help Desk right for you?

What can the TJ Help Desk assist with?

  • We can think through intervention design, implementation, strategies, outreach, building and supporting your team/collective, ethical dilemmas, and long-term planning.

  • We can also think through problems or sticking points in the work to make your project, intervention, facilitator process or political work effective.

How much time can the TJ Help Desk offer?

You can schedule an appointment for 30-60 mins.

How much does the TJ Help Desk charge?

The Transformative Justice Help Desk is free.

What DOESN’T the TJ Help Desk assist with?

  • At this time, the TJ Help Desk cannot assist with internal conflict, interpersonal conflict, or mediation within your group.

  • The TJ Help Desk does not offer community accountability processes — however, we do offer support to facilitators who are in the midst of holding down a process.

  • The TJ Help Desk does not offer crisis intervention work.

Who is the TJ Help Desk?

The TJ Help Desk is staffed by IC’s Transformative Justice Fellow Shira Hassan, from Just Practice Collaborative. Depending on your intervention or needs, Shira may pull in additional skilled consultants. Learn more about Shira.