UW Medicine Center for Restorative Practices

In alignment with UW Medicine’s commitment to fostering collaboration and trust within and across teams, the Center for Restorative Practices (CRP) supports staff, faculty, and learners through community building circles, consultations, trainings, and guidance for responding to harm and bias.

What do we mean by Restorative Practices?

These practices come from Indigenous traditions, which focus on the well-being of the whole community by bringing people together to build human-to human connection, respond to harm, and to welcome new and returning members into the community.

Restorative practices do not include disciplinary decisions, actions or investigations.

What are the goals of the Center for Restorative Practices?

  • Elevate teams, leaders and system wide efforts to cultivate a restorative mindset by promoting strong, cohesive teams and sustainable resolutions. 
  • Empower faculty, learners, and staff to thrive and deliver their best work by fostering belonging while building and creating strong community connections.
  • Partnering with those in learning, teaching and research spaces to create environments of psychological safety that allow for open dialogue and trust.
  • Collaborate with clinical teams across UW Medicine to foster a culture of caring, directly improving patient safety and health outcomes. 
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If you would like to learn more about restorative practices at UW Medicine, please reach out to restorativepractices@uw.edu

Community Building Circles - 6 circles of what circles are: Showing up and Speaking authentically; creating intentional space; sharing perspectives and experiences; welcoming new members; affirming Team values; building stronger relationships. Restorative Justice Tiers; Tier 0: Restorative Mindset; Tier 1: Build and Strengthen Relationships ; Tier 1.5: Navigate Ripples of Concern; Tier 2: Respond to Conflict or Harm; Tier 3: Support Re-Entry

What does the Center for Restorative Practices offer?

  • Community building events
  • Restorative conversations, consultations, and circles to address harm
  • Education about Restorative Practices  
  • Partnership with the Office of Healthcare Equity (OHCE) Education team 
    (e.g. Bystander Intervention, Pronoun Competency, Reducing Weight Stigma & Bias in Healthcare)
  • A place to share concerns and experiences through the Bias Reporting Tool (BRT)

 What is the Bias Reporting Tool (BRT)?

Housed in the Center for Restorative Practices, the Bias Reporting Tool (BRT) provides a place for staff, faculty and learners to share concerns and experiences that do not align with UW Medicine’s values. Submitting a report is also a restorative step that helps connect reporters to supportive resources and builds awareness of what our community is experiencing. For more information about BRT and to meet the BRT Committee, please click here. 

Upcoming Events

Meet the Team

Partner Groups

OHCE Training Team

Civil Rights Compliance Office

Human Resources

Wellbeing

Care4U

Peer to Peer

Restorative Practices (RP) Leadership Team

Bessie Young, Medical Director, OHCE
Charisse Williams, Director, Center for Restorative Practices, OHCE
Jasmine Crawford, Restorative Practices Specialist, OHCE
Paula Houston, Chief Equity Officer, OHCE
Trish Kritek, Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs, SOM

Questions?

If you have non-urgent questions or concerns, please email restorativepractices@uw.edu.

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