CEASE Clinic Director Emma Hetherington presented “Integrating Evaluations in Practice: Lessons Learned from Representing Survivors of CSEC” for the National Association of Counsel for Children’s Member Webinar Series in December 2022 along with the School of Social Work’s Dr. Allison Dunnigan and Kasandra Dodd. She also published “Measuring Therapeutic Outcomes for Survivors of CSEC” in…
CEASE and HOPE Court Highlighted at The Summit
CEASE’s collaboration with Chatham County Juvenile Court’s Healing Opportunities for Positive Empowerment (HOPE) Court, Georgia’s first treatment court for child survivors of human trafficking, was highlighted in 2022 at The Summit: Georgia’s Child Welfare Conference through the debut of “HOPE for Victims”, a video featuring CEASE Director Emma Hetherington and second-year student Jessica L. Davis….
CJCC Awards CEASE Funding under the TANF Grant Program for Minor Human Trafficking Services and Training
CEASE has been awarded an additional $75,900 under the Georgia Criminal Justice Coordinating Council’s TANF Grant Program for Minor Human Trafficking Services and Training to provide community-based follow up and aftercare services for survivors. The clinic will use these funds to hire a full-time social work advocate to provide quality legal representation to survivors in…
CEASE Receives Safe Harbor for Sexually Exploited Children Grant for 2022-2023
The CEASE Clinic received a $72,000 Safe Harbor for Sexually Exploited Children grant from the Georgia Criminal Justice Coordinating Council to strengthen the state’s response against the sexual exploitation of youth. This is the second year in a row that the Wilbanks CEASE Clinic has been awarded funding from the council. Additionally, earlier this year,…
CEASE Clinic receives Crime Victim Service Collaboration and Innovation Award
The CEASE Clinic was awarded the 2022 Georgia Crime Victim Service Collaboration and Innovation Award in April from the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (CJCC). “This prestigious award honors extraordinary individuals, task forces, or programs that provide services to victims of crime. [CJCC] would like to recognize those whose work has been particularly noteworthy, and who…
Welcome New CEASE Clinical Legal Fellow James Graessle
CEASE Welcomes James Graessle as our new Clinical Legal Fellow. James comes to CEASE after serving as a judicial clerk for Judge Leslie J. Abrams Gardner of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia. Previously, he worked as an associate at King & Spalding, where maintained an active pro bono practice focusing on criminal…
CEASE Awarded Grant to Provide Training for DMST and CSEC Youth
Along with Drs. Allison Dunnigan, Rachel Fusco, and Jennifer Elkins (UGA School of Social Work), Professor Emma Hetherington, director of CEASE, will be an investigator for a grant provided by the Center on Human Trafficking Research and Outreach. The project, Developing a Comprehensive Training Protocol for Stakeholders Serving Trafficked Youth, will focus on supporting stakeholders primarily in…
CEASE is Hiring a Clinical Legal Fellow
University of Georgia School of Law – Clinical Legal Fellow Position – Wilbanks Child Endangerment and Sexual Exploitation (CEASE) Clinic The University of Georgia School of Law Wilbanks Child Endangerment and Sexual Exploitation (CEASE) Clinic is seeking a Clinical Legal Fellow beginning in December 2021. The CEASE Clinic provides legal representation to survivors of child sexual abuse,…
Law School Continues to Support Survivors Through Creation of the Kurtz Distinguished Law Fellowship
University of Georgia School of Law continues to support survivors of child sexual abuse and exploitation through the creation of the Kurtz Distinguished Law Fellowship, a merit-based fellowship that will be awarded with preference given to students with superior academic records who have a demonstrated passion for supporting survivors of child sexual abuse and exploitation. Alumnus Joey…
Supreme Court of Georgia Grants Cert. After CEASE Files Amicus Brief In Favor Of Survivor
On June 9, 2021, the Wilbanks Child Endangerment and Sexual Exploitation (CEASE) Clinic filed an amicus brief authored by post-graduate fellow, Melina D. Lewis, and Director Emma Hetherington in favor of the Georgia Supreme Court hearing arguments in a survivor’s case against St. Joseph’s Catholic Church and other parties in Georgia. On June 21, 2021, the Georgia Supreme Court…