LEO Compassion Prison Project is working with the University of Notre Dame’s research team, Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO), on a multi-year study to show how our Trauma Talks program

Compassion Prison Project’s One-Day Trauma-to-Transformation Workshop begins with the Compassion Trauma Circle. Steps are taken into a large circle of participants as they respond to questions about traumatic events they

Trauma Talks is a 16-part series designed to educate prison residents about childhood trauma, showing them tools to help calm their nervous systems, reduce prison aggression, find resilience and become

Similar to the circle seen in our short film Step Inside the Circle, CPP runs Zoom community circles with people dialing in from all over the world. These Circles explore

CPP’s work with prisons and communities is based on the CDC-Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) study which is one of the largest investigations into childhood abuse, neglect and its

The average life expectancy of a correctional officer is 59, the contributing factors being PTSD and trauma. This training focuses on education about the impact of trauma on mental, physical

We’ve been told by several prison residents that nothing brightens their day more than hearing their name called during mail call. We’ve also heard from letter writers on the outside