Justiceworks, Ltd.

Last updated on May 3, 2011

Justiceworks, Ltd. was established to foster forms of justice that strengthen and heal the communities of Central Wisconsin.

Justiceworks, Ltd. is a non-profit corporation dedicated to the advancement of programs that secure right relationships between offenders, victims, and their communities.

Description:
Justiceworks, Ltd. is focused on providing services in the following areas:

• Alcohol and drug-free housing
• Coordination of services to the justice system
• Education and community outreach
• Family law resource information
• Mediation services
• Rehabilitative assistance to offenders
• Victim-Offender conferencing
  
  

and other initiatives which pursue similar goals.

Some of our programs include:

Community Education and Outreach - provides community forums on justice issues, including the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration.

Family Law Information Center - offers assistance with court forms and procedures, and referrals to community resources for unrepresented persons involved in divorce and other family law cases.

Mediation Services - (in development)

Riverside House - provides alcohol and drug-free residential living for individuals seeking to maintain sobriety.

Victim-Offender Conferencing - provides a dialogue between victims and offenders in which the emphasis is on healing victims, holding offenders accountable, and restoring losses.

Volunteers In Probation (VIP) - offers community mentoring services for misdemeanor offenders.

History:
Justiceworks, Ltd. incorporated May 2004 as a non-profit corporation after two years of planning by more than 110 volunteers to develop the framework for a community justice organization. Today, an 11-member Board of Directors leads a corporation with nearly 300 members representing various sectors of the community.

Contact people:

Katherine Munck, Executive Director, (phone), (email) Kurt Helminiak, Volunteer Coordinator, (phone), (email) Shannon Steinbach, Volunteer Coordinator, (phone), (email)

Office fax number: (715) 344-3677

Address:

1547 Strongs Avenue, Suite B Stevens Point, WI 54481 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.justiceworksltd.org

Directions:

Just south of the Portage County Court House in the Pfiffner House.

Last updated on May 3, 2011