First Nations Australians are the most incarcerated people in the world, making up just three percent of our population, but 29 percent of the prison population. We know that the First Nations communities we work with hold the answers to providing meaningful support for people at risk of incarceration and are waiting for an Australia that is brave enough to sit up and listen.
CRC acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we all work and live, and pay respects to Elders past and present. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded. This always was, always will be Aboriginal land.
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(About CRC)
Community Restorative Centre (CRC) is the leading community provider of support services to people impacted by the criminal legal system in NSW.
All CRC programs aim to reduce crime and break entrenched cycles of disadvantage, offending and imprisonment. We aim to improve our clients’ quality of life by providing a range of practical and emotional supports, as well as assisting people to build sustainable pathways out of the criminal legal system and into the community. We publish research and advocate for improved access to support services. We support families as they sit between the prison system and their community.
We aim to reduce crime and the impact of incarceration on individuals and the community through a range of services and targeted projects.
CRC’s Areas of Support
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Systems
An independent and critical voice in policy advice. Building an evidence base for best practice in the community sector.
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Services
Ensuring client access to critical services, while advocating for the specific needs and perspectives of people in the criminal legal system.
CRC’s
Areas of
Support
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Individuals
Holistic, long-term, intensive, relational case work throughout the process of reintegration; creating genuine pathways away from the criminal legal system.
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Families and Communities
Information and support for families; working with overincarcerated communities to address the key drivers of incarceration.
Client Stories
Discover the inspiring stories of people who have transformed their lives with support from CRC programs.
Nathan
Nathan
Extended Reintegration Support (South Western Sydney)
Nathan was adopted when he was 2 years old. His adoptive parents were unable to have children, but not long after, they fell pregnant and had a baby girl. Nathan’s adoptive parents were not kind to him and his father often disciplined him with physical violence.
Leah
Leah
Inner City Sydney Women’s Transitional And Post-release Service.
Leah was born in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge regime. Her parents were placed into forced labour camps and often feared for their lives. After Leah was born they sought asylum and spent 10 months in a refugee camp in Thailand before settling in Australia in south-west Sydney.
Francis
Francis
Initial Transitional Support (Sydney Metropolitan)
Francis was referred to the Initial Transition Service by his Community Corrections Officer early this year. He describes his most recent incarceration as being a 10-year sentence, because although it was for seven years.
Jodine
Jodine
Nepean/blue Mountains Transitional & Post-release Service
Jodine was released on Boxing Day. Release days are always stressful, but public holidays are fraught with danger as no government departments are open, banks are closed and it’s hard to get things done.
Ahmed
Ahmed
Aod Transitional & Post-release Support
My name is Ahmed and I am 44-years old. I was raised on a farm with an older brother and a younger sister. We all worked on the farm helping with the family business, growing vegetables to sell at the markets
Richard
Richard
Telephone Information & Referral Service
Richard is a man in his sixties. His daughter Jill is due to be released from prison in a few months’ time.When my daughter Jill went into prison it was a time of huge upheaval.
Christof
Christof
Inner-west Transitional Boarding House Support
My name is Christof. I’m 46 years old and have been in and out of prison for way too long. Can I explain the reasons for me going to prison? Probably not, because I don’t really know the answer myself.
Reggie
Reggie
Broken Hill Indigenous Advancement Strategy
Reggie is a young First Nations man with a partner and an 8-month-old daughter. He has a major offence including assault on his record and reports to parole weekly while on a two-year good behaviour bond.
Sandras
Sandras
Family Casework
My name is Sandra and I was referred to the CRC Family Worker 12 months ago when my 28-year old daughter was taken into custody. This was my family’s first and only experience with the criminal justice system. The day she was taken into custody started like any other day
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