284 – Restorative Justice, with Steve Kim and Project Kinship

Sandie is joined by Steve Kim, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Project Kinship, an organization that provides services, healing, and hope to individuals who have been affected by incarceration, gangs, or violence. Steve Kim discusses what is restorative justice and their work in the Orange County collaborative courts.

Steve Kim

Steven Kim is the Co-Founder of Project Kinship where he serves individuals impacted by gangs and incarceration, with the aim to successfully re-integrate them back into the workforce, schools, and community. His dedication to breaking cycles of incarceration, gang membership, and community violence stems from over 15 years of working with traumatized and abandoned youth throughout Orange County.

Key Points

Multiple marginalization occurs when a person is marginalized in multiple aspects of their life, from resources, employment, housing, and so forth.

A felony conviction can lead to potentially over 46,000 collateral consequences on someone's life.

Restorative justice addresses harm through restoration of broken relationships and accountability.

Collaboration between the Orange County Collaborative Court, Project Kinship, probation, and the district attorney's office has seen success in providing healing, resources, and reintegration to young adults.

Serving versus saving: If we try to save people, we will burn out. But if we serve people, we walk into each day renewed and have the opportunity to be served in return.

Resources

Project Kinship

Ensure Justice 2021 - Healing the Cycle of Incarceration (Panel)

Ensure Justice 2021 - Restorative Justice (Workshop)

Homeboy Industries

Ep. 283 - Why A Special Court for CSEC Victims, with Judge Joanne Motoike

Live2free

Anti-Human Trafficking Certificate Program

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Transcript

Dave [00:00:00] You're listening to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. This is episode number 284 Restorative Justice, with Steve Kim and Project Kinship.

Production Credits [00:00:10] Produced by Innovate Learning, maximizing human potential.

Dave [00:00:29] Welcome to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. My name is Dave Stachowiak.

Sandie [00:00:35] And my name is Sandie Morgan.

Dave [00:00:38] And this is the show where we empower you to study the issues, be a voice, and make a difference in ending human trafficking. Today, we're so glad to welcome the executive director and co-founder of Project Kinship, Steve Kim. Steve is the co-founder of Project Kinship, where he serves individuals impacted by gangs and incarceration with the aim to successfully reintegrate them back into the workforce, schools and community. His dedication to breaking cycles of incarceration, gang membership and community violence stems from over 15 years of working with traumatized and abandoned youth throughout Orange County. Steve, welcome to the podcast.

Steve [00:01:17] Thank you. Thanks for having me.

Sandie [00:01:19] I saw Steve really recently at our Priceless annual event where he accepted the Outstanding Nonprofit Diamond Award for Project Kinship. And our Diamond Awards are not just about we want to give somebody an award, but we want our community to see people doing this work well. And Project Kinship has done such an excellent job. We've been partners with our Live2Free student. They are part of our community.