This toolkit was created by Designing Justice + Designing Spaces (DJDS), a non-profit architectural firm with specific expertise in evidence-based design research and designing spaces that counteract structural inequality through design. DJDS engaged with violence survivors and those who worked with survivors to understand their experiences with the waiting areas and conference room in the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office. This toolkit provides recommendations to redesign those spaces to respond to survivors’ psycho-social, emotional, trauma-healing and justice needs during the justice and legal process, specifically for the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office, but also general recommendations for any justice-system agency interested in making those changes. The toolkit was part of the larger Essex County Shooting Response Pilot.
Related Resource:
Essex County Procedural Justice Shooting Response Pilot: Summary of Implementation Approaches and Lessons Learned (includes a Shooting Response Toolkit)