What We Do
STRONGHOLD serves a multiracial and intersectional demographic of organizers, restorative/transformative justice practitioners, system-impacted folks, and community members through two wings of work. We serve organizations and collectives that are seeking to embed a culture of restorative and racial justice within their organizational and collective practices. We also serve community members through our public training program.
Organizational Work
We recognize that the task of staying in alignment within the influence of the non-profit industrial complex, structural racism, and racial capitalism require tremendous courage and rigor. We provide consultation and facilitation support to steward your space into greater alignment, wellbeing, dignity, and cohesion.
Public Trainings:
We believe in restorative justice as a model that can repair harm at the individual, community, and systemic levels. We recognize that systems of oppression are forms of historical and ongoing harm that compound and contribute to the breakdowns we experience in our communities.
Our pedagogy and practice centers healing; draws on folks’ lived experience; invites real-time self-reflection and interpersonal practice with regards to harm and accountability; and emphasizes relationships rather than self-reliance amidst conflict.
Our Partners
Client Spotlight
Boundless Freedom Project
In 2020 Boundless Freedom Project made a commitment to integrating anti-racism and cultural competency into all levels of our organization. Being an organization that serves people impacted by incarceration, a predominantly BIPOC population, we recognized there is real potential for causing harm and for things to get messy as we took action.
We understood this work needed to be approached with skill, integrity, and a focus of restorative justice so early on in this process we reached out to Stronghold. Since then, Stronghold has provided us with moral support, wise counsel, practical training, coaching and thought partnership. As experts in racial justice, restorative justice, and in-prison programming, Stronghold has been an outstanding partner for us. They have co-created with us a safe and encouraging environment to get this necessary work done. Stronghold has supported our process of realizing the goal of integrating cultural competency and anti-racism in our organization with vision and deep humanity. We have felt held with care and accountability throughout this process. We would not hesitate to recommend anyone whether it be an individual or organization to work with Stronghold.