Don't miss CLiME Director David Troutt's keynote address during tomorrow's Equity Leadership Symposium: Aligning Restorative Practices and Restorative Justice!

On May 5th, CLiME hosted a national conference on Trauma, Schools and Poverty. The Rutgers Center on Law, Inequality and Metropolitan Equity (CLiME) is committed to studying the role of law and policy in encouraging or inhibiting opportunity based on place. This conference is an outgrowth of the Trauma, Schools and Poverty Project.

On May 5, 2017 CLiME hosted an interdisciplinary conference around systemic response to psychological trauma in youth. Dr. Alexandra Margevich has written an outstanding summary of the conference, which can be downloaded here. Recent CLIME publications on the topic of trauma and law include two new legal memos, one on emotional disturbance classification and the other on international perspectives on child trauma, a critical literature review and an article by CLiME Director Professor David Dante Troutt.

It is with great pride that the Rutgers Center on Law, Inequality and Metropolitan Equity (CLiME) announces the release of our literature review for the Trauma, Schools and Poverty Project (TSP). "A Critical Review of the Psychological Literature" provides a critical and comprehensive review of the empirical literature literature on the sequelae of childhood exposure to potentially traumatic events (PTEs), with special emphasis on low socioeconomic status populationsat disparate risk for exposure to PTEs across the lifespan.

“Given the right resources and opportunity, people can bring about a change in their lives,” community organizer and social worker Jack Farrell explains to me.  For over 40 years, Farrell has served as a bridge between community members and policymakers to address issues of trauma and violence in Northern New Jersey.  His career started with substance abuse recovery– “and I see violence in the same way,” Farrell explains, “it’s a learned behavior.”

Beginning in the fall of 2015, CLiME’s Trauma, Schools and Poverty Project (TSP) is a multi-year effort to understand the relationships between structural inequality and the pervasive experience of complex psychological stress and trauma.  Psychological research has demonstrated the cumulative destructive effects caused by exposure to complex trauma—traumatic experiences linked to school and community violence, family separation as well as domestic abuse and neglect that are often repetitive, if not continuous—on children and adults, especially those …

The Center on Law, Inequality & Metropolitan Equity (CLiME) was proud to host the Trauma-Informed Care Roundtable on April 15th, 2016 at the Rutgers School of Law-Newark, co-sponsored with the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office. CLiME Director David Troutt and Assistant Attorney General Wanda Moore served as the facilitators for three panels on the following topics: Understanding Trauma in Adults and Children, Understanding Trauma-Informed Care Practices in Action, and Understanding the Capacity to Provide Trauma-Informed Care.

In this season of anniversaries, no two are more stark in their parallels than Ferguson a year after the shooting of Michael Brown and New Orleans 10 years after Hurricane Katrina killed 1,800 and displaced thousands. Both involve the senseless loss of black lives and the public horror at revelations long known in many isolated communities. Each said a lot about race relations in a country where the “postracial” election of the first black president suggested that we were too far beyond Katrina to produce Ferguson. Each also speaks of structural inequality and the idea of disappearance.