Community accountability: REVIVE

We understand and recognise that like healing and recovery - taking accountability for causing harm is a process.

We are committed to supporting all people impacted by and responsible for sexual harm, using restorative approaches.

We offer education groups and casework support to people who have taken accountability and to people who are needing additional support in understanding accountability.

We also offer this support to their family and community members or impacted others.

The two parts of our accountability programs are called REVIVE: Prevention and REVIVE: Response

Make a referral or get in touch

REVIVE Program offers:

  • Community based education and support groups (intake now for group commencing October 2026)

  • Individual restorative casework for accountability (ongoing)

  • Maintenance group

This program is for anyone.

If you want support for yourself, someone in your family/community, if you’re impacted by someone else’s accountability or someone you are working with is at risk of causing sexual harm, then this program may be of assistance.

Contact our small team on 0485 938 757 email revive@transformingjustice.org.au OR fill in this form

REVIVE: Prevention is a program focused specifically on the prevention of sexual harm. It is designed to support people to make healthy sexual choices and to recognise unhelpful thinking and behavioural patterns.

REVIVE: Prevention helps people to understand accountability, build empathy and create a safety plan so that harm doesn’t happen.

Casework and support services are available now and our online groups are starting in Term 3 2025 so make an inquiry with our small team to find out more.

What? 10 week Education, Support Groups & specialist casework

When?‍ ‍Groups commencing NOVEMBER 2025 | 6-8pm | Casework available now

Where? Nationally available online AESDT

Why? To gain awareness of how to have safe and healthy sexual relationships & get specialist support.

How? Get in touch by connecting with our REVIVE team now.

Groups are starting soon!
CALL/SMS | 0485 938 757

or email revive@transformingjustice.org.au

Flyers to download and share

Useful information and resources

Watch our 30 min video on REVIVE and hear from our Program Coordinator Mardi, and Caseworker Chelsea, talking about how REVIVE can support people at any stage of their accountability journey.

Mimi Kim, Founder Creative Interventions and INCITE

“…My drive to call it community accountability just really highlighted that we’re talking about something  that’s happening in the community… we’re asking not only people who have caused harm to be accountable, but we’re asking our communities to be accountable for changing our social norms on approaches to gender-based violence….”

Frequently asked questions

How is this work restorative?

Being restorative means treating everyone with dignity, respect & committing to do no further harm to anyone. Restorative approaches acknowledge the role of individual, social and other factors that contribute to causing harm.

We focus on what needs to be in place to support healing, accountability and recovery.

Who is this for?

This program is for anyone.

Including people at risk of causing harm or has taken steps towards accountability, or has been convicted of sexual harm, as well as anyone wanting to learn about accountability taking.

If you want to support someone in your family or community, who is at risk of causing sexual harm then this program may assist you or someone you care about.

Why is Transforming Justice offering support to people accountable for harm?

This work aligns with our core principle of survivor centred practice, as most survivors want the person who harmed them to acknowledge what happened, accept accountability and get support, so that the harm doesn’t happen again.

In addition to a survivor centred approach, we use a restorative framework to prioritise humanity, dignity, dialogue, support and accountability in the prevention and repair of harmful behaviours.

In this work, we support others in the community as well, as we believe in the value of the role of community (including families, partners and friends) in response, recognising the impact of harm, the need for safe relationship for the purpose of prevention.

Why are family members and others being offered support?

Family members, partners or members of the community who are supporting people who have been harmed or accountable for harm, have their own impacts and needs.

Our group and casework services can enable people in support roles to talk about their own needs, impacts and what can assist them.

Regardless of whether their loved one has commenced their own accountability journey impacted others can engage with our group program and casework services.

REVIVE group program and casework services are available to anyone in Australia
0485 938 757 revive@transformingjustice.org.au

What support is available?

Our community accountability program REVIVE is a 10 week Group program and casework service. REVIVE helps people understand accountability for sexual harm, to build empathy and create a safety plan to avoid causing harm in the future.

Participants in the 10 week online education program learn to identify and practice healthy sexual behaviours, recognise triggers for harmful thoughts or actions, build empathy, develop prevention plans, and to support their initiatives towards repairing harm.

More information about the topics is outlined below.

What is involved in the REVIVE program?

  • 10 week (online) Education Group for people accepting accountability or at risk of causing harm

  • 10 week (online) Support group for family members, partners and others impacted

  • Casework and wellbeing support for anyone

  • Aftercare support for graduates of group program

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How did this work start?

REVIVE was developed by Community Justice Initiatives (CJI), based in Waterloo Canada - a community based restorative organisation responding to sexual harm and accountability.

CJI is a mentor and supervisor of the restorative facilitators at Transforming Justice and we are deeply grateful for their support and guidance in introducing REVIVE for the first time to Australia.

How is REVIVE funded?

Transforming Justice was funded in 2023 and 2024 by NED Foundation to adapt REVIVE to be implemented in Australia.

In 2025, La Trobe University has funded REVIVE to be implemented and evaluated and this report is due at the end of 2026. In 2025-56 the Hunter New England and Central Coast PHN supported TJA to offer REVIVE in the region at no cost for anyone living or working there. For people in other regions, we ask for a contribution towards the cost of delivering the program.

How can I find out more or make a referral?

We know that accessing safe and supportive spaces is hard for everyone, especially if you are responsible for causing harm to someone or supporting a family member who has caused harm.

Contacting our small team will enable a safe, supportive and non-judgemental conversation so you can heard more about REVIVE, and make an informed decision about whether it is right for you or someone you would like to refer.

revive@transformingjustice.org.au

0485 938 757 referral form

Groups are starting soon!
CALL/SMS | 0485 938 757

or email revive@transformingjustice.org.au

Topics in the Group Program

Topics in the 10 week Education accountability group include:

  • Introduction and group rules

  • Healthy relationships and consent

  • Journey to accountability

  • Self-awareness and gender

  • Sexual harm and dysregulated behaviour

  • Pornography

  • Impacts of sexual harm & building empathy

  • Managing risky behaviour

  • Supporting accountability

  • Review and next steps

Topics for others impacted by accountability include:

  • Self-Compassion and Emotions

  • Disclosure

  • Trauma

  • Disenfranchised Grief

  • Coping with Loss and Change

  • Boundaries and Resilience

  • Communication and Intimacy

  • Others impacted group (Response) includes discussion of “Navigating one’s way through “the system
    (Prevention) includes:

  • Self-Compassion and emotions

  • Disclosure

  • Trauma

  • Disenfranchised grief and

  • Coping with Loss and change

  • Boundaries and resilience

  • Communication and intimacy

  • “…One virtue of the active responsibility of an offender's loved ones is that it nurtures active responsibility on the part of the offender. Restorative justice is about creating a space where offenders are most likely to take responsibility…”

    John Braithwaite

  • "When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path to another who may be walking in darkness."

    Maya Angelou

  • “Retributive theory believes that pain will vindicate, but in practice that is often counterproductive for both victim and offender. Restorative justice theory, on the other hand, argues that what truly vindicates is acknowledgment of victims’ harms and needs, combined with an active effort to encourage offenders to take responsibility, make right the wrongs, and address the causes of their behavior. By addressing this need for vindication in a positive way, restorative justice has the potential to affirm both victim and offender and to help them transform their lives.”

    ― Howard Zehr

  • “…how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?”

    — bell hooks