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Voices Heard

About

Supporting pathways toward collective healing

Voices Heard accompanies those silenced by harm. We help individuals and organizations move beyond compliance-driven responses toward restorative approaches grounded in empathy, accountability, and repair.

Mission

Voices Heard accompanies those silenced by harm on their healing journey by creating supportive spaces where they can reclaim their voice, share their experiences, and express the lasting effects of trauma on their lives. We help individuals and organizations move beyond traditional compliance-driven responses toward restorative approaches grounded in empathy, accountability, and repair.

Vision

We envision a future where individuals, communities, and organizations respond to harm with empathy, accountability, and a commitment to healing. Voices Heard supports restorative cultures that acknowledge individual and collective trauma while creating meaningful pathways for those harmed to be heard, taken seriously, and actively involved in responses to wrongdoing and systemic harm.

How we do it

For someone silenced by harm to finally be heard in a supportive space is a profound and healing experience.

We work collaboratively with individuals who have lived experience of harm to ensure that our processes are centered on their needs, responding in a trauma-informed and empathetic manner. We foster dialogue, deepen understanding, and support pathways toward collective healing.

Our evidence-based processes offer pathways for truth-telling, accountability, healing, and repair. Through individual and group meetings, we facilitate supportive spaces that empower those who have been silenced to find their voice and ensure the voice is heard, validated, and believed. We work with organizational leadership to address the harm and coach more restorative organizational cultures.

Restorative values that guide our work

Our work is grounded in the 5 Rs of restorative justice — relationship, respect, responsibility, repair, and reintegration. We prioritize voluntariness and invite the stakeholders closest to the harm to participate in our restorative processes. Confidentiality is also a main component of our restorative work.

Those harmed often express the need for voice, validation, vindication, and participation. We recognize that healing can take many forms. We aim to create supportive spaces where those harmed feel empowered to share their stories, impact, and needs without having to go through a process that causes them more harm.

Confidentiality

Voices Heard facilitators strive to provide a confidential setting for all participants to pursue healing. Facilitators want participants to be able to communicate honestly about sensitive issues without fear that they could later be called as witnesses against them in a legal process. All restorative communications, written and oral, are handled confidentially.

As a registered State of Colorado entity, Voices Heard is not legally considered a mandatory reporter; however, facilitators follow the confidentiality guidelines outlined in the Colorado Dispute Resolution Act. By this statute, facilitators are not required to maintain confidentiality if a communication reveals the intent to commit a felony, inflict bodily harm, or threaten the safety of a child currently under the age of 18.