The Caribbean Umbrella Body for Restorative Behaviour (CURB) is a Caribbean network of NGOs working to assist and support crime survivors, prisoners, ex-prisoners and their families. Click Here for a Flash file about CURB or visit our website to Find Out More.

Vote Now in Caribbean RJ Survey.

CURB would like to stimulate discussion in Trinidad and Tobago and other Caribbean jurisdictions as to the manner in which we in the region should implement restorative justice. Cast your vote in our Online RJ Survey on this important topic. Go to our Online Survey to cast your vote.

Search Caribbean RJ Directory.

Need to find a prison ministry or support service for crime survivors in the Caribbean? Then search the Caribbean RJ Resource Directory which lists various agencies which provide support to crime survivors, prisoners, ex-prisoners and their respective families.

Caribbean RJ Events Calendar.

CURB also provides a Caribbean Restorative Justice Events Calendar at our website. This tool will help to network providers of crime victim support, offender support, restorative justice and therapeutic jurisprudence by allowing them to Add their events hosted in the Caribbean for FREE. The calendar is available online Here.

Caribbean RJ Audio Feed.

CURB offers an audio version of our Blog articles and of The Restorative Review for persons "on the go". You can listen to our Blog and this newsletter or download an MP3 file or subscribe to a Podcast from the AudioFeed link on the Newsletter page of our website.

Stop Prison Abuse Blog.

CURB is committed to highlighting and eliminating prison sexual assault and abuse in the Caribbean. We encourage you to visit the Stop Prison Abuse website for more information and subscribe to the Stop Prison Abuse Blog.

Excerpts from the Stop Prison Abuse blog will be included in our monthly newsletters together with news from the restorative justice and criminal justice reform fields. Audio versions of our Stop Prison Abuse project blog posts are available from the News page of the Stop Prison Abuse website.

The CURB Restorative Justice Fund was set up to provide support to primary and secondary crime survivors. For more information about the CURB RJ Fund please visit the RJ Fund Page or download our RJ Fund Brochure.

To contribute to primary and secondary crime survivors via the RJ Fund, please Contact CURB.

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Mrs. Donna Parchment Brown - Jamaica.

CURB is happy to highlight the restorative justice work of Mrs. Donna Parchment Brown from the island of Jamaica.

Mrs. Donna Parchment Brown is an Attorney-at-Law, Mediator, Trainer and a founding member of the Dispute Resolution Foundation (DRF) and has been its CEO since 1994 when the organization began. The DRF provides advocacy, training and services in Restorative Justice, Mediation, Arbitration, facilitation and related alternative dispute resolution techniques and practices.

She has helped to design policy and support delivery of Mediation training to the police and for all the courts of Jamaica, in several under-served urban communities in Jamaica and throughout the region to member states of the OECS, Guyana, The Bahamas, Belize.

A strong and fervent advocate of Restorative Justice, she has promoted training in this area supported by the Ministry of Justice, and was a part of the Jamaican Team facilitating the 1st and 2nd Restorative Justice Week in Jamaica in 2007 and 2008.

She spent her earlier professional career in private practice in the law and in public service. She has served as a Vice President of the Jamaica Co-operative Credit Union League Limited and as a Commissioner on two Commissions of Enquiry.

Mrs. Parchment Brown is on the ad hoc faculty of the Kettering Foundation in Dayton, Ohio teaching deliberative democracy techniques, a member of the Jamaican Bar Association, and Chairman of the Hampton School Board, her alma mater. She has also served as a Commissioner of the Fair Trading Commission, is Deputy Chairman of the Peace Management Initiative, Director of the St. Elizabeth Homecoming Foundation and of United Way of Jamaica.

In 2004, she was awarded the National Honour of Commander of the Order of Distinction, for her national contribution in the field of dispute resolution.

In 2007 she co-authored an Issue Book – “We Want Justice - Getting to the Goal of Justice for All” which was sponsored by the Kettering Foundation. In 2008, she collaborated on an Issue Brief dealing with Corruption, also for Kettering Foundation.

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