{"id":17959,"date":"2022-01-14T09:20:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T15:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/?p=17959"},"modified":"2023-06-15T14:36:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T19:36:53","slug":"new-journal-article-details-dash-to-create-unique-covid-19-clinic-at-pandemics-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2022\/01\/14\/new-journal-article-details-dash-to-create-unique-covid-19-clinic-at-pandemics-start\/","title":{"rendered":"New journal article details dash to create unique COVID-19 clinic at pandemic\u2019s start"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down business, schools, and much of regular life in the spring of 2020, several clinical faculty members at Mitchell Hamline were soon thinking about the collateral consequences of those shutdowns: Visitations in the child welfare system would be disrupted; undocumented immigrants and mixed-status families would need help accessing some of the federal relief approved by Congress; prison inmates with medical conditions would need help applying for conditional release to not be in close quarters with the virus spreading; and frontline healthcare workers might need help with emergency planning matters like power of attorney and healthcare directives, just in case.<\/p>\n

What quickly came together was a unique clinic with five instructors to enlist students to work with clients on these and other legal matters that emerged during the pandemic. There was only room for ten students, and the spots filled quickly.<\/p>\n

Then, a week before class was to start, George Floyd was murdered by a police officer just a few miles from the law school. In racing to get the class together, faculty realized they also needed a moment to give students space to process that trauma.<\/p>\n

The professors \u2013 Natalie Netzel, Ana Pottratz Acosta, Joanna Woolman, Katherine Kruse, and Jonathan Geffen \u2013 detailed their journey to creating the one-time clinic and their experience working with students, in a co-written article in the Clinical Law Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Because of the closeness of the class to both an emerging pandemic and the killing of George Floyd, the experience became more than just pairing students with clients to gain real world legal experience, a benchmark of how Mitchell Hamline prepares its students to be ready to be lawyers upon graduation.<\/p>\n

The class was also a lesson \u2013 for both faculty and students \u2013 in trauma-informed lawyering and how to incorporate good mental health practices in legal practice. \u201cIn embarking on work advocating for those in crisis,\u201d the authors wrote in the article, \u201cwe also knowingly put ourselves in the lives of others in moments where they are experiencing tremendous trauma and inevitably experience trauma ourselves.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen a person encounters the trauma of others on a regular basis over an extended period of time, it is utterly foreseeable and completely normal that they will experience the negative effects of vicarious trauma.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down business, schools, and much of regular life in the spring of 2020, several clinical faculty members at Mitchell Hamline were soon thinking about the collateral consequences of those shutdowns: Visitations in the child welfare system would be disrupted; undocumented immigrants and mixed-status families would need help accessing some of … <\/p>\n

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