Photo Supplied By China Sieger

By Tanner Smith

Alberta Community Justice Awards

Peace Region local has been recognized for her work in restorative justice in Peace River

Jul 9, 2022 | 8:00 AM

A Peace Region local is being awarded an Alberta Community Justice Award for the restorative justice program she’s helped create in Peace River.

China Sieger Program Director with Peace Regional Restorative Justice says that this program was created and meant to help healing victims receive clarity and closure in a safe space, but has also been providing the justice system with other options instead of court trials…

“Our program is a voluntary program, it’s presented as an option that people can consider choosing, when it’s safe and suitable to do so, and the purpose of the program is to create more meaningful options for people to resolve crime and incidents of harm.”

Sieger says “there are lots of positive ripple effects to this program,” helping out the Justice System in Alberta, giving people an option to use this program in addition to court trials, or in replacement of court.

But, she emphasized for them (Peace Regional Restorative Justice), this program is for helping victims heal,

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“Lots of people are interested in this sort of justice because of the cost-effectiveness, the reduction to pressure on courts and law enforcement and those are important valuable things. But, it’s really important to me that it’s conveyed that restorative justice is about the people who are impacted by crime and harm,” says Sieger.

Sieger is very “humbled and proud” to be working with such a great team and doing such positive necessary work in the community. Adding that she’s just happy someone in the restorative justice field was being awarded because it makes “such a big impact on communities.”

Sieger says when she received the email that she had been chosen she was stunned, ” I’m very rarely speechless but this caught me off guard.”

She said it feels good to be recognized at a provincial level but even better to be nominated for the award by the people she sees at work every day.

Sieger was recognized in the Partnership and Collaboration category.