i'm cynthia parker with the shelter program manager at hospitality house hospitality house wants to say that we support the emergency shelters supplemental and we also need to have the restorative practices program funded last week, we used the restorative practices circle during one of our hearing with will daily and i can tell you that was a way of giving or calling it dignity because he had been d o s and not only throwing him out of the shelter but providing a way for the residents to talk about how they've been effected by even though harm that they felt as a result of the incidents this circle provided a way for the residents to understand not only the clients narrative but their own narrative and move towards reconciliation and healing i mean, i'll tell you about currently we have athletic discussions about feelings authentic feelings that are deep-rooted there was a sense of resilientcy we asked them they were effected and it was a non-hierarchal way of relating it themselves the beginning of a dialog an intermittentlytion of respect and contraction and a way of being with other