Source: (2006) Paper from “The Next Step: Developing Restorative Communities, Part 2,” the IIRP’s 8th International Conference on Conferencing, Circles and other Restorative Practices, October 18-20, 2006, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA.
Van Rensburg, a community psychologist states that “ with the growing trend to move
toward globalisation of health, health policy, and health care, a set of processes are in
place where unprecedented interconnectedness is blurring a variety of boundaries and
transforming the nature of human interaction across a wide range of spheres. This in
turn, increases economic, political and social interdependence. ( Van Rensburg,
2004).
The Umlazi project addresses the opportunity for blurring some of those professional
boundaries. It was an opportunity for a tertiary institution, Durban Institute of
Technology and a non-profit organisation called Mzamo Guidance Clinic in the
Umlazi area to work together in establishing a partially restorative practice. The
insight was to promote interconnectedness across health care systems at an early
intervention level that did not exist before. (excerpt)
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