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VICTIM SENSITIVE OFFENDER DIALOGUE

Are you the victim of a crime? Crime creates a ripple effect. It hurts you and all the people in your life.

Victims Sensitive Offender Dialogue is a dialogue process that offers victims, and victims' survivors of violent crimes the opportunity to meet with their offender face-to-face in order to facilitate the healing and recovery process. Restorative Options acts as an advocate on behalf of the victim, helping them through the process and arranging a safe and secure environment for the meeting to take place. 

Meeting with the offender can provide victims with the opportunity for personal insight, empowerment, and structure for their grieving and healing. Also, victims have the opportunity to ask questions and receive answers and insight, which only the offender can provide.

The service is a FREE Maryland service that meets with clients in a location agreeable to them.




We are looking for Volunteers

We are looking for victims/survivors of serious crime who have come through the trauma of the crime and who wish to consider participating in a restorative dialogue circle with offenders inside a Montgomery County, Maryland facility.

We are also looking for victims/survivors who live in Maryland and who wish to enter into a one time dialogue with the offender who harmed them. The offender must still be incarcerated.

No inquiries can be accepted from offenders.