I spent almost a decade working as a Special Victims Unit prosecutor before pivoting to civil sexual abuse litigation. As any former prosecutor can attest, the civil side is a completely different ...

Going to court can be—and often is—traumatic for adults, and even more so for children. For some child clients it may be momentarily distressing, while others experience its effects as more ...

Tens of millions of people in this country have experienced violence, abuse, and sexual assault. These are traumatic experiences, often made all the worse for survivors by the legal system. Now ...

Kelly Young, a white law student at Temple University Law School in Philadelphia, comes from a neighborhood where “everybody pretty much has a house, has a job, has enough,” she said. So when one of ...

The Center on Trauma and Adversity, led by faculty co-chairs Drs. Jennifer King and Megan Holmes, has developed a Graduate Certificate in Trauma-Informed Practice. The certificate is intended to ...