Legitimacy & Resilience for Prosecutors
Legitimacy & Resilience
Our hypothesis is simple and yet ambitious: with intentional support, justice system professionals can more clearly articulate and deliver on a robust notion of justice, one that factors in trauma experienced by themselves and the people they serve.
Legitimacy & Resilience for judicial officers:
We are currently testing this approach with a cohort of judicial officers in a major county court system. Judicial officers commit to individual observation and coaching for a 12-week period on the topics of procedural justice and trauma responsivity. Email us to learn about bringing these strategies to your court system.
Legitimacy & Resilience for Prosecutors:
In 2025, our multidisciplinary team had the privilege of working with 30 prosecutors and victim-witness professionals from four prosecutor offices on the frameworks of procedural justice and trauma-responsivity.
PROJECT ACTIVITIES:
Work with prosecution professionals to build knowledge and skills aligned with procedural justice and trauma-responsivity
Share lessons with the national field
PILOT OFFICES:
In the project’s first year, we worked with professionals from four prosecutor offices:
Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office (IL)
La Crosse County District Attorney’s Office (WI)
Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office (WI)
St. Paul City Attorney’s Office (MN)
We are grateful to the Joyce Foundation for their support of this work with prosecutor offices.