Community projects & collaborations

Creating collaborative spaces with communities, individuals and partners to support healing, accountability and transformational change.

Collaborations and relationships in the community

Oceania Community of Restorative Practice for Sexual Harm | Founding member

A space for connection, learning, and practice

The Oceania Community of Practice (CoP) brings together practitioners, researchers, and organisations working in restorative and transformative responses to sexual harm across Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, and the wider region.

Established by Transforming Justice Australia, the CoP creates a regular space for connection, reflection, and shared learning in what is often complex and isolated work.

We meet monthly, alternating between:

  • Closed sessions for peer reflection and practice support

  • Open sessions for broader engagement and sharing across the region

We welcome practitioners across community, government, and research settings. To find out more or join an upcoming session, please email info@transformingjustice.org.au
Founding members

Recent activities:

  1. Submission to Australian Law Reform Commission Inquiry into Justice Responses to Sexual Violence 2025

  2. Webinar

Hunter New England and Central Coast Community based Restorative Practice Project & Community | Project lead

A community based restorative practice project

Transforming Justice has been commissioned by the Primary Health Network to offer support to anyone in the Hunter Central Coast and New England regions impacted by sexual harm or responding to sexual harm. We offer our support and accept referrals into our programs from within this region.

Anyone living or working in the region is welcome and invited to learn about the work Transforming Justice does in the community and to consider how engaging in the community based practice project may support the needs of your community and clients. 

Engagement between TJA and stakeholders in the region could open pathways for referrals or solidarity with others, and our ongoing events this year mark an important opportunity to compliment and enrich the existing strong networks and supports across these countries.

The project will

  • Identify community resources, needs and existing resources 

  • Plan future restorative circles to support responses to sexual harm

  • Contribute to a community resource or toolkit to support future restorative justice initiatives 

  • Learn how to make referrals into any of the programs and supports offered by Transforming Justice  

  • Assist with community mapping responses to sexual harm across locations, to further development of existing, pathways or available support across regions.  

Upcoming events:

We look forward to seeing you at our upcoming circle:

EVENT DETAILS HERE

Community Practice Project, Hunter New England and Central Coast

Contact

Melissa and Sam | community@transformingjustice.org.au   

International Women’s Day 2026 | Collaboration with Blue Mountain’s Women’s Health and Resource Centre & Central Tablelands & Blue Mountains CLC

Community panel discussion on the meaning of justice

Balance the Scales: Women’s Access to Justice was a conversational FEMFEST workshop exploring how inclusion, exclusion, and marginalisation shape women’s experiences of justice in Darug and Gundungurra country.

This collaboration between Thea Deakin-Greenwood from Transforming Justice Australia, Renee Lees from Central Tablelands and Blue Mountains Community Legal Centre and Blue Mountains Women’s Health Centre. Together with a community voice, they reflected on what justice looks like in practice, why so many barriers persist, and why collective action continues to matter in building fairer systems for all.

A recording of the event was made by Radio Blue Mountains.

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