Restorative practices is an approach that addresses harm, restores relationships, builds community connectivity, and improves learning environment climate.  Restorative practices represent a positive step in helping people learn how to resolve conflict or disagreements, take ownership of their behaviors and engage in empathy and healing My restorative practices project was a Middle School Curriculum Recommendation for my son's middle school. It worked from a the Social-Ecological Model framework illustrating how mental and physical health is impacted and shaped by interrelated and interdependent levels of influence. Teaching Restorative Practice techniques to young students in middle school can help prepare them to resolve conflict in a positive way in higher education settings and eventually in workplaces, including policy-making professions. Restorative practices not only responds to conflict, but also proactively shifts one’s mindset about others and the healing process.  In addition to giving students skills to manage interpersonal conflict, restorative practice helps students to identify internal biases and structural barriers to equality. Restorative Practices can give students the tools to implement anti-racist ideas within their schools and communities. Imagine the impact that a generation of students growing up in an environment that equips them to practice restorative techniques and empowers healthy relationships will have on breaking down harmful policies and programs. RP can affect change on communities, such as community of color, that are most affected by punitive systems. The skills of Restorative Practices can be applied in many dimensions of life, including advocacy. I see restorative practices as being a pivotal part of my work in Birth and Reproductive Justice.