Victim Offender Mediation and Victim Offender Dialogue Facilitation are part of the movement towards a Balanced and Restorative Criminal Justice. Institute staff and consultants have received training and serve as resources to individuals and communities.
Julien Olivier, Principal Consultant
Biosketch:
Julien Olivier trained in the theory and practice of victim-offender mediation under Dr. Mark Umbreit of the University of Minnesota. (Introductory Victim Offender Mediation & Conferencing in Property Crimes and Minor Assaults: A Multi-Method Approach (May, 2001); Advanced Training in crimes of rape and murder (Dec., 2001). He is a chaplain at the Strafford County (NH) House of Corrections (SCHC). His ministry to the incarcerated began in the state of Maine in 1961. He is also a member of the Spiritual Care Team at the SCHC.
Julien is a member of the board and serves as a volunteer at the Family Reception Center there. He is a founding member of CURE/NH of which he currently serves as president and chair. He is a certified member of the Fellowship of Christian Ministries (FCM), a board member of CORPUS New England, Associate Chair of Jail & Prison Ministries-NH, a member of the American Catholic Correctional Chaplains Association. Ordained priest in 1966, he is a parochial vicar in the N.H. Deanery of the Catholic Apostolic Vicariate of the Good Shepherd.
Olivier holds a BA degree in philosophy and an MTh in systematic theology from Oblate College and Seminary, and an MAT in the teaching of French from the University of Maine/Orono. He is a doctoral candidate (DMin) at Bangor Theological Seminary where he is preparing a project and thesis on the spiritual care of inmates.