Core Values and Core Principles
REACH is dedicated to bringing these practices across the University. When interpersonal harm occurs, REACH provides safe, confidential resources for healing and support for the harmed party, as well as those affected. Additionally, we offer support and guidance to the party responsible to work toward accountability and repair. REACH aims to institutionalize, centralize, and support this mindset as a core aspect of SDSU culture, thereby building supportive communities and strengthens our capacity to handle harm.
Our Core Values
- Transforming Harm into Growth: Traditional systems often isolate those who make mistakes. Responsive and restorative practices reintegrate them through accountability. This helps the whole community heal.
- Equity in Action: By centering the voices of those impacted by harm, responsive and restorative practices address systemic imbalances and ensure that justice is accessible and human centered.
- Proactive Resilience: Most restorative work is done before conflict happens. By building strong social capital through community-building circles, the campus becomes more resistant to polarization and crisis.
Our Core Principles
Understanding our responsive and restorative process is to look at it through the lens of the 5 R’s:
- Relationship: Focuses on restoring relationships damaged by harm and/or conflict and building community strength.
- Respect: Listening to all opinions and valuing every individual's dignity.
- Responsibility: Encouraging personal and collective accountability for one’s actions.
- Repair: Identifying and implementing solutions to address the harm caused and making things “as right as possible.”
- Reintegration: Using structured processes to bring individuals back into the community after a conflict.
