“She failed to legal legal, which is legally legal, per legal.” That’s how a rapid-fire exchange between a magistrate and lawyer sounds to Alex, the protagonist in Netflix’s hit series Maid. In this particular episode, Alex appears at a custody hearing wearing clothes borrowed from the woman staying one floor above her at a domesticContinue reading “Legal, Legal, Legal: A Tool for Screening Legal Needs”
Monthly Archives: January 2022
Since You’re Here: From Impostor to Action
I’ve always tended towards anxious thoughts. They hit a particularly fevered pitch in my first year of graduate school, many moons ago. I’d just uprooted and moved from the east coast to Oregon to join a dozen first year graduate students at the University of Oregon. Each of them seemed better prepared, smarter, more [fillContinue reading “Since You’re Here: From Impostor to Action”
Connecting Trauma-Informed to Community-Engaged
In the years before #MeToo exploded into public awareness, conversations about trauma and its impact on schools and other institutions were growing under the banner of becoming trauma-informed. Trauma-informed principles such as those outlined by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration offered new ways to think about institutional policies and practices that recognize andContinue reading “Connecting Trauma-Informed to Community-Engaged”
Trauma Research Notes 