Trauma is systemic
Trauma shapes people, families, communities, institutions, and life-course pathways.
About the TRAIL Center
Transforming trauma knowledge into action
The TRAIL Center is an independent trauma-focused center dedicated to advancing trauma-responsive systems through research, support, training, education, and policy change.
Mission
Advancing trauma-responsive systems
The mission of the TRAIL Center is to advance trauma-responsive systems by translating trauma knowledge into research, support, training, education, and policy change.
The TRAIL Center envisions communities and systems that recognize trauma, respond with understanding, reduce harm, and create pathways toward healing, accountability, and meaningful change.
What We Believe
Systems can reduce harm
Institutions can respond with dignity, accountability, and practices that reduce trauma rather than reproduce it.
Knowledge must move into action
Research, lived experience, education, and policy work should lead to practical change.
Director
Dr. Lori L. Hall
Dr. Lori L. Hall is the Director of the TRAIL Center.
Dr. Hall brings more than 15 years of experience across higher education and the criminal justice system. Her work focuses on trauma, crime, victimization, maladaptive coping, justice-system involvement, trauma-responsive practice, and institutional change.
Her leadership of the TRAIL Center is grounded in research, teaching, lived experience, advocacy, and applied systems-change work. Through the Center, she advances trauma-responsive approaches that connect research, education, support, policy, and organizational practice.