Get Ethics Resources for Your Community

We offer several services, structured into three tiers:

Tier 1

Free ethics consultation. You let us know about the questions you have, and we’ll provide experienced advice on what you should be thinking about as you proceed. Please email us at REACH@salisbury.edu to arrange for a free consultation.

Tier 2

Moderated facilitated stakeholder discussions are discussions with representatives of identified stakeholders on a community issue that your organization or group is working through. We will facilitate a dialogue, identify points of ethical convergence, and develop recommendations for moving forward based on common ethical ground.

We offer Ethics workshops. Workshops can be inter- or intra-institutional and are designed for transformative change. Have us create a workshop which is tailored to your needs, or participate in our four-hour workshop “Adherence to Ethical Norms and Accountability.”

Ethics Workshops
Please contact us at REACH@salisbury.edu to schedule a workshop for your organization.

“Adherence to Ethical Norms and Accountability”
4-hours
Description:
This workshop focuses on the use of ethics as a means for increasing community engagement and accountability in the greater Salisbury area. This one-day workshop will bring together community leaders to discuss mechanisms of community accountability, and develop new organizational norms and practices in response to the following questions: Who are our organizations accountable to, and what methods of accountability do we use? How do we ensure that we are meeting the needs of those that we are accountable to? Are our practices revisable and responsive to community oversight or feedback? This workshop will help participants identify which ethical norms guide our work, and how these can be integrated with mechanisms of accountability. Participation is collaborative and confidential.

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of the workshop, attendees will:
1. Identify the types of standards and norms (personal, organizational, and societal) that guide their work.
2. Identify existing mechanisms of accountability within their organizations.
3. Recognize the importance of community accountability.
4. Develop additional procedures by which their organizations can maintain accountability to the community in which they serve.
5. Understand ways in which institutional revision of norms can be facilitated by community feedback and increased responsibility.

Tier 3

Our ethics analysis white papers (with customized recommendations) provide data or research oriented towards your local organizational and policy environment, which can be used to impact policy or to convince a skeptical partner of a way forward around a difficult issue. If we don’t have expertise in the areas you need services in, we will find those experts and connect you. See below for examples of our white papers.

White Papers and Reports
- Apology Letter Banks and the Ethics of Victim Involvement in Restorative Justice Practices (PDF) - Prepared for Victims' Voices Heard, November 2023
- Criminal Background Checks and Lookback Periods White Paper (PDF) - Prepared for the Salisbury Area Housing Working Group, March 2021
- Framing Document for the Study of Policing Practices (PDF) - Prepared for the City of Salisbury Police Department, January 2022

Contact us at REACH@salisbury.edu for pricing.