Advocacy and Consulting Topics
Resources from this website and its related book have been used to support advocacy, consulting and/or training in the following areas:
— Judicial training on a number of other trauma-informed topics;
— Youth justice, including supports for foster youth affected by grief and loss and for trauma-informed conflict resolution strategies in schools;
— Family law justice reform initiatives, including improving decision-making by adjudicators and prioritizing developmental health for children in the family law process. For example, the book noted on this website is part of a family law justice reform initiative n Florida;
— Trauma-informed supports for domestic violence and interpersonal violence, including in the family law context in Ontario and Nova Scotia;
— Providing trauma-informed strategies for pre-sentencing reports and report writers;
— Supporting lawyer well-being for family lawyers, criminal lawyers, public sector lawyers, health law and small firm or solo practitioners;
— Supporting well-being for lawyers working on trauma-impacted pro bono cases;
— Ensuring that courthouse libraries in British Columbia have access to introductory information about trauma, along with over 125 other law libraries around the world (including Canada, US, UK, Ireland, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Botswana).
— Including trauma informed resources in law schools and legal clinics, including for mental health legal matters;
— Lawyer mentoring and coaching for legal professionals; and
— Trauma informed resources to support jurors in Canada.
Inquiries about consulting for advocacy work can be sent to: https://helgimaki.co/contact
Please note that we do not provide legal services, act as lawyers or provide legal advice or legal referrals. We receive numerous advocacy support requests and our pro bono advocacy services are fully subscribed. If you do not receive a response within 72 hours, please consider finding a lawyer or other legal professional in your area to support you. If they are not already familiar with trauma-informed principles, you may wish to direct them to our book or this website.