Twomey Center For Peace Through Justice Training Center
Celebrating over 60 years in the service of faith and the promotion of justice
Brenda Quant teaching Positive Behavior Support to parents of children with disabilities.
About Twomey Training Center
The Twomey Training Center provides training and consulting for people and organizations committed to developing change processes where peace, justice, and empowerment are valued. The Center offers training in valuing diversity, anti-racism, building effective teams, inclusive strategic planning, outdoor teambuilding, conflict resolution, violence prevention, and mediation skills. We provide these services to schools, community groups, labor leaders, businesses, local, national or international organizations.
The Twomey Training Center's organizational development model builds on the strengths of participants who bring diverse backgrounds to the process of change. We assist organizations in understanding and working with diverse human and technical resources. We make extensive use of experience-based learning and adult learning principles in all our training and organizational development work. We teach participants to recognize and celebrate the unique approaches to problem solving that emerge from the resource diversity their organizations already possess.
The Twomey Training Center's experiential workshops are designed to:
- Teach and practice the principles and behaviors of transformational community focused leadership development;
- Surface issues which unite and divide diverse groups who are trying to work together toward a common goal;
- Develop skills for effective communication between diverse individuals and groups in conflict;
- Develop conflict resolution skills in the process of working on issues surfaced by the group;
- Foster understanding of prejudice, stereotyping, racism, internalized oppression and other "isms" and develop skills for reducing and confronting them.
We take special pride in being a voice for racial dialogue in the region, a fifty-year legacy of the spirit of Father Twomey.
Criminal Justice Leadership Alliance, including representatives of the New Orleans City Council and all the criminal justice agencies, celebrate agreement on plans to rebuild an effective and more just criminal justice system.
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The Twomey Training Center (TTC) also provides facilitation and mediation services to assist post-Katrina recovery and planning efforts.
For example, Ted Quant served on the Vera Institute’s facilitation team that facilitated the Justice Alliance Judiciary Reform Initiative Agreement. This agreement is a plan of action with concrete steps to reform the justice system in New Orleans.
The Twomey Training Center’s co-founder, Dr. Michael Kane, led the formation of the Global Facilitators Service Corp New Orleans Network. This network of facilitators conducted disaster and crisis intervention and resilience training for Dept of Health and Hospitals, Louisiana Spirit, police, fire fighters and other first responders, teachers, Americorps volunteers and social workers.
In a collaboration led by Dr. Lance Hill that included faculty from 4 universities, we created and piloted the StormBridge model for trauma, resilience and reconciliation in the wake of ethnic violence, such as, the betrayal and abandonment of poor, African-Americans citizens in New Orleans. The Stormbridge model is based on Dr. Ervin Staub’s research on genocide, resilience and reconciliation.
The Twomey Training Center continues to provide training for teachers, students and adult youth workers in leadership development, conflict resolution and peer mediation, and providing parent advocate leadership development training for Operation Reach, Families Helping Families, and Pyramid Parent Training.
To schedule a training, contact Ted Quant at 504.861.5831
Guest Worker speaking to the news media on labor trafficking and slave-like working conditions on a strawberry farm in Amite, La.
Workers Rights
Workers' Rights are championed through education and solidarity in the struggle for economic justice and human rights.
To schedule a training, contact Ted Quant at 504.861.5831
New Orleans citizens taking leadership on a community challenge
Local Initiatives
The Twomey Center has served as an initiator and incubator for many programs that have emerged as independent institutions that continue the struggle toward achieving social justice. Some examples of such initiatives are:
- Crescent City Farmers Market
- Community Mediation Services
- Death Penalty Project
These and other organizations had their start at the Twomey Center and continue to serve our community.
If you are interested in utilizing the Twomey Training Center, please contact Ted Quant at 504.861.5831
