Trauma-Informed Writing Toolkit
A practical guide to writing about survivors, sexual violence, trafficking, coercion, memory, and institutional betrayal with accuracy and care
EpsteinWiki documents a public record built around human suffering. Behind every deposition, police report, complaint, interview, evidence inventory, and government disclosure are people whose lives cannot be reduced to a paragraph about what was done to them.
Trauma-informed writing does not soften evidence, excuse wrongdoing, or avoid difficult facts. It changes how those facts are gathered, framed, attributed, and published.
The goal is to tell the truth without repeating the dynamics of exploitation. That means giving survivors agency, protecting identity, avoiding voyeuristic detail, naming abuse accurately, explaining power and coercion, and refusing to turn trauma into entertainment.
This toolkit applies to Knowledge Base pages, court summaries, survivor testimony pages, evidence descriptions, timelines, graphics, captions, social posts, interview outreach, and editorial review.
The central rule: Include the detail needed to understand the evidence. Do not include detail merely because it is shocking, intimate, or available.
Snapshot
Trauma-informed EpsteinWiki writing should:
- Protect physical, emotional, and digital safety.
- Use a survivor’s chosen public name and self-description.
- Preserve protected pseudonyms.
- Explain what will be published before requesting an interview.
- Give people meaningful choices whenever possible.
- Describe sexual violence as violence, abuse, exploitation, coercion, or trafficking rather than romance or scandal.
- Never imply that a child consented to sexual activity with an adult.
- Avoid graphic detail that does not serve a clear evidentiary purpose.
- Attribute allegations and testimony precisely.
- Avoid diagnosing trauma responses from documents.
- Treat memory differences with context rather than automatic disbelief.
- Include denials and legal status without humiliating the survivor.
- Use careful headlines, captions, photographs, and content warnings.
- Link readers to support resources when appropriate.
- Protect contributors from repeated unnecessary exposure to traumatic material.
Trauma-informed writing is not less rigorous. It is more accurate because it recognizes power, coercion, memory, safety, and the human effects of publication.
What trauma-informed means
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration describes a trauma-informed approach as one that recognizes the impact of trauma, responds through policy and practice, and seeks to resist retraumatization. Its principles emphasize safety, trustworthiness, peer support, collaboration, empowerment, voice, and choice.
EpsteinWiki adapts those principles for public research and writing.
Safety
Consider whether publication could expose, endanger, humiliate, or retraumatize a survivor, witness, contributor, or family member.
Trust and transparency
Explain who you are, how information will be used, where it may appear, what can and cannot be controlled, and what review process applies.
Voice and choice
Follow the person’s chosen name and self-description. Offer meaningful choices about interview timing, location, breaks, topics, identification, and photographs when outreach occurs.
Collaboration
Treat a survivor as a participant with knowledge, not a container from which painful details are extracted.
Empowerment
Include the person’s actions, words, expertise, resistance, advocacy, work, and life beyond the abuse when relevant.
Resistance to retraumatization
Do not recreate conditions of surprise, powerlessness, pressure, exposure, disbelief, or loss of control when they can be avoided.
These principles guide editorial judgment. They do not permit a source to determine independent factual conclusions or suppress verified public interest information. Transparency means explaining those limits honestly.
Survivor, victim, complainant, witness, or Jane Doe
No single label fits every person or every legal context.
Survivor
Many people prefer “survivor” because it emphasizes life, agency, and endurance. Use it when the person uses it or when EpsteinWiki’s general survivor-centered language applies.
Victim
“Victim” may be the legally correct term in statutes, court findings, victim rights proceedings, or official records. Some people also identify with it. Do not erase the term when legal precision requires it or when the person chooses it.
Complainant or reporting person
These terms may be useful when describing procedural status without deciding a disputed allegation. Explain the legal or investigative context.
Witness
A witness may also be a survivor, employee, investigator, bystander, or person with other relevant knowledge. Use the term that describes the person’s role in the specific record.
Jane Doe or another pseudonym
Use the exact protected pseudonym associated with the case. Different Jane Doe numbers may refer to different people across separate proceedings. Never merge identities based on numbering alone.
The Global Center for Journalism and Trauma style guide advises following the language people use for themselves rather than assuming one label is universally preferred.
When the person’s preference is unknown, choose the most accurate and least objectifying term for the context. Be consistent within the page unless the legal posture changes.
Identity and consent
Public identification in one setting does not automatically authorize identification everywhere.
Before naming a survivor, confirm:
- The person publicly identified herself or himself in connection with the specific matter.
- The identification came from the person or an authorized public source rather than online speculation.
- The article does not reveal a separate protected identity from another case.
- Naming the person is necessary and consistent with current editorial policy.
- The headline, image, caption, tags, and metadata do not create additional exposure.
Do not reveal the identity of a person known only as Jane Doe because:
- A government file accidentally exposed the name.
- A social media account guessed the identity.
- Initials match.
- A photograph resembles someone.
- Another survivor or contributor privately shared the name.
- The person publicly discussed a different experience but not this case.
Consent must be informed and specific. A person who agrees to a private conversation has not necessarily agreed to publication. A person who agrees to be quoted has not necessarily agreed to use of a full name, photograph, medical detail, family information, or complete recording.
Record the agreed terms. If the intended use changes, ask again when possible.
Preserve agency in the story
Survivors should not appear only as passive objects of another person’s conduct.
When supported by the record, include:
- How the person sought help.
- What the person reported.
- Steps taken to protect others.
- Legal action.
- Advocacy.
- Work, expertise, or public testimony.
- Resistance and boundary setting.
- The institutions that responded or failed to respond.
- The person’s own explanation of why the record matters.
Avoid framing survival as a requirement to appear heroic, inspirational, forgiving, or publicly active. A person does not owe the audience resilience performance.
Agency also means respecting silence. A survivor who does not speak publicly is not less credible or less important.
Name the conduct accurately
Sexual violence is violence, not romance, scandal, or consensual sex.
Use the most accurate term supported by the evidence:
- Sexual abuse.
- Sexual assault.
- Rape.
- Trafficking.
- Exploitation.
- Grooming.
- Coercion.
- Recruitment.
- Commercial sexual exploitation.
- Forced or coerced sexual activity.
Attribute disputed conduct correctly:
She testified that Epstein sexually assaulted her.
The complaint alleged that the recruiter used grooming and financial pressure.
The jury convicted Maxwell of offenses related to recruiting and grooming minors for abuse.
Avoid euphemisms such as:
- “Had sex with” when describing alleged rape, assault, or abuse.
- “Affair” when power, coercion, or a child is involved.
- “Relationship” when the record describes exploitation.
- “Sex scandal” when the subject is trafficking or sexual violence.
- “Underage woman.” A minor is a child or adolescent, not a woman made younger by an adjective.
- “Child prostitute.” A child cannot consent to commercial sexual exploitation.
- “Consensual encounter” when consent was legally or factually impossible.
The Global Center guidance emphasizes that sexual violence should be framed as violence and that children cannot consent to sexual relationships with adults.
Explain power and coercion
Trauma-informed writing examines the conditions surrounding conduct rather than describing isolated acts without context.
Relevant power factors may include:
- Age differences.
- Money and economic dependency.
- Employment.
- Housing.
- Immigration status.
- Education.
- Professional authority.
- Social prestige.
- Promises of opportunity.
- Threats or retaliation.
- Isolation.
- Grooming.
- Recruitment through trusted people.
- Institutional credibility.
- Legal resources.
Do not imply equal power where the evidence documents a significant imbalance.
Avoid asking why a survivor returned, accepted money, maintained contact, delayed reporting, complied, or did not physically resist without explaining grooming, coercion, dependency, fear, normalization, and available choices.
Context does not require assuming facts not in evidence. State what the testimony and records support.
Writing about children and adolescents
Children require the highest level of protection.
Use age accurate language:
- Child.
- Adolescent.
- Teenager.
- Minor.
- Person who was fifteen at the time.
Do not use language that assigns adult sexual agency to a child.
Avoid:
- “Underage woman.”
- “Young lover.”
- “Teen prostitute.”
- “Had an affair with.”
- “Seductive.”
- “Promiscuous.”
- “Chose the lifestyle.”
- “Consented to the relationship.”
Do not include a child’s school, current location, family identifiers, medical information, or other details that could enable identification unless a compelling public interest and editorial review justify the minimum necessary disclosure.
When a current adult speaks publicly about abuse experienced as a child, do not describe the person as though permanently frozen at the age of victimization.
Allegations, legal status, and belief
Trauma-informed writing must also be legally and evidentially precise.
The word “alleged” belongs with the disputed conduct or attribution, not as a permanent label attached to a person.
Prefer:
The complaint alleged that Epstein assaulted Jane Doe.
Avoid:
The alleged victim claimed…
The preferred version identifies the legal source and disputed action. The weaker version places suspicion on the person and doubles the distancing language.
When a criminal conviction or court finding exists, state it. Do not continue describing established conduct as merely alleged.
When no finding exists, do not convert testimony into a verdict. Use clear attribution:
- “She testified…”
- “The declaration states…”
- “The complaint alleged…”
- “The interview records…”
- “The defendant denied…”
- “The available evidence does not resolve…”
Including a denial does not require repeating demeaning attacks, irrelevant sexual history, or private details. Summarize the material response fairly.
Memory, disclosure, and apparent inconsistency
Do not diagnose a person or declare a trauma response from a record.
Memory can be affected by many factors, including time, stress, attention, age, repeated interviews, question wording, access to records, and the ordinary limits of human recall. Trauma may also affect memory and disclosure, but it should not be used as a universal explanation for every difference.
When accounts differ:
- Identify the exact difference.
- Note when each statement was made.
- Compare the questions asked.
- Determine whether one record is a summary rather than a transcript.
- Check whether the person reviewed documents before a later statement.
- Look for corroborating and contrary evidence.
- Explain whether the difference is central or peripheral.
- State what remains unresolved.
Avoid:
- “She changed her story” when the records add detail without direct contradiction.
- “Trauma made her forget” without a qualified source and appropriate basis.
- “A real victim would remember.”
- “She waited too long to report.”
- “Her calm demeanor proves she was unaffected.”
- “Her emotion proves the allegation.”
Demeanor is not a reliable shortcut to truth. Report evidence, not assumptions about how trauma should look.
Use Handling Contradictory Evidence when accounts or records conflict.
Mental health and diagnostic language
Do not diagnose survivors, witnesses, defendants, or contributors from behavior, writing, testimony, or public appearance.
Use a mental health diagnosis only when:
- The person publicly self-identifies with it.
- A lawfully public record documents it and the detail is relevant.
- A qualified professional made the diagnosis within an appropriate context.
- Publication serves a legitimate public interest.
Attribute the source:
In her public statement, she described living with post-traumatic stress symptoms.
The declaration states that she received treatment for anxiety.
Avoid:
- “She is traumatized” as a casual diagnosis.
- “He is a narcissist.”
- “She dissociated” unless the person or qualified source states it.
- “The witness was hysterical.”
- “She suffers from…” when neutral person centered language is available.
- Using a diagnosis to discredit testimony without evidence.
Mental health information is sensitive. Include only what readers need to understand the public record.
Graphic detail and excerpts
Graphic detail can retraumatize survivors, distress readers, and turn abuse into spectacle. It may also obscure the institutional and evidentiary significance of the record.
Before including a detail, ask:
- Does the detail prove a material fact?
- Is it necessary to understand the conduct, charge, pattern, or legal ruling?
- Can a clear non graphic summary communicate the same information?
- Does the detail identify a survivor?
- Does the detail belong in the main text, a content note, or nowhere?
Prefer:
The testimony described repeated sexual abuse and coercion while she was a minor.
Avoid reproducing the complete graphic account unless a specific evidentiary issue cannot be explained otherwise and heightened editorial review approves it.
Short excerpts may preserve a survivor’s voice. Choose passages that convey meaning, agency, institutional response, or a material fact. Do not select the most disturbing quotation merely because it attracts attention.
Content warnings
Content warnings help readers make informed choices. They should be specific enough to be useful without summarizing the graphic material in the warning itself.
Examples include:
Content note: This page discusses child sexual abuse, trafficking, and coercive recruitment without graphic detail.
Content note: This document summary includes references to sexual assault, suicide, and institutional failure.
Content note: The linked source contains graphic descriptions that are not reproduced on this page.
Place the warning before the relevant material. Do not use sensational warnings such as “shocking,” “disturbing beyond belief,” or “viewer discretion advised” without explaining the category of content.
A warning is not permission to include unnecessary detail.
Headlines, titles, summaries, and SEO
The headline carries the greatest exposure and may be seen without the article’s context.
Headlines must not:
- Identify a protected survivor.
- Turn abuse into a scandal or spectacle.
- State an allegation as fact.
- Use a survivor’s trauma as clickbait.
- Pair a survivor’s name with graphic terminology unnecessarily.
- Reduce the person to a victim label.
- Imply that a child consented.
Prefer:
Survivor Testimony and the Institutional Failures Documented in the Palm Beach Investigation
Avoid:
Epstein Victim Reveals Shocking Details
The Snapshot, meta title, meta description, tags, social preview, image text, and excerpt must follow the same standard as the body.
Search optimization does not justify dehumanizing language.
Photographs, graphics, captions, and alt text
Images can expose or objectify people even when the article text is careful.
Do not use:
- Sexualized photographs of survivors.
- Images taken from private accounts without a lawful and ethical basis.
- Childhood photographs that create identification or safety risks.
- Crime scene or injury imagery without a compelling public interest.
- A survivor’s face as generic decoration for an abuse article.
- Before and after collages that reduce a person to trauma.
- AI generated likenesses of real survivors.
When using a public image of a survivor, confirm the source, context, permission or lawful basis, and whether the person has used that image publicly in connection with the story.
Captions must identify what the image actually shows. Do not use visual proximity to imply guilt or a relationship beyond the evidence.
Alt text should describe the relevant visual content without repeating unnecessary graphic detail or exposing protected information.
Infographics should emphasize chronology, evidence, institutions, and accountability rather than visualizing abuse.
Interviewing or contacting survivors
Do not contact a survivor merely because an article would feel more complete with a quote.
Outreach should have a legitimate purpose, an appropriate contributor role, editorial coordination, and a plan for safety and consent.
Before contact:
- Research the public record so the survivor does not have to teach the entire case.
- Decide what information is genuinely needed.
- Identify yourself and EpsteinWiki accurately.
- Explain where the work may appear.
- Explain whether the conversation is on the record, not for attribution, background, or off the record.
- Do not promise outcomes, removal, confidentiality, legal protection, or control EpsteinWiki cannot guarantee.
- Offer written questions when appropriate.
- Avoid surprise contact at a home, workplace, memorial, or private event.
During an interview:
- Let the person choose whether to continue.
- Ask permission before entering sensitive topics.
- Allow breaks and silence.
- Do not demand graphic details.
- Do not challenge memory in a hostile manner.
- Clarify dates and facts without implying disbelief.
- Follow the person’s language for identity and relationships.
- Explain how quotations may be edited for length and clarity.
After an interview:
- Confirm names, spellings, pronouns, and agreed identification.
- Explain the expected publication process.
- Provide a contact for corrections or safety concerns.
- Do not pressure the person to promote the article.
Meaningful consent requires understanding. It is more than the absence of “no.”
Quotation and paraphrase
Survivor testimony should not be cleaned up until it loses the speaker’s meaning or identity.
When quoting:
- Verify the exact words against the audio, video, transcript, declaration, or filing.
- Include enough context to preserve meaning.
- Use ellipses and brackets transparently.
- Do not combine separate statements into one quotation.
- Do not convert an investigator’s summary into the survivor’s direct quotation.
- Avoid excerpts selected only for emotional intensity.
When paraphrasing:
- Preserve the source’s meaning.
- Attribute the statement.
- Avoid adding diagnostic or emotional interpretation.
- Distinguish the person’s account from independently verified facts.
- Link the primary record.
If the transcript and recording differ, use the recording when it is clear and explain the discrepancy when material.
Writing from court and investigative records
Legal records often translate a person’s experience into procedural language. Writers should preserve legal accuracy without allowing the procedure to erase the human reality.
Complaints
Attribute allegations to the complaint. Identify the plaintiff’s public name or pseudonym as the record does. Follow the case through dismissal, settlement, trial, or judgment.
Depositions
Read the question and answer together. Include objections and corrections when relevant. Do not treat hostile or repetitive questioning as neutral context that can be omitted when it shapes the answer.
FBI interview summaries
An FBI Form 302 is generally an agent’s summary, not a word for word transcript. Do not place quotation marks around summarized language unless the report presents it as a direct quote.
Police reports
Identify whether the statement comes from the survivor, officer, witness, or another source. Separate observations from allegations and investigative conclusions.
Court findings
State what the court actually decided. A court may rule on procedure without deciding whether the underlying abuse occurred.
Use How to Read an Epstein Document for the complete evidence method.
Denials, defense arguments, and attacks on credibility
Fair reporting includes material denials and legal responses. Trauma-informed reporting does not require reproducing every humiliating attack.
Include:
- A clear denial of the alleged conduct.
- A materially different account.
- A court ruling on credibility or admissibility.
- A relevant acquittal, dismissal, or contrary finding.
- A response that directly affects the reader’s understanding.
Summarize rather than amplify:
- Irrelevant sexual history.
- Insults.
- Speculation about clothing or lifestyle.
- Private medical information.
- Victim blaming arguments unrelated to a legal issue.
- Repeated accusations of greed without supporting evidence.
If a court filing contains degrading language, attribute it to the filing and explain its relevance. Archival preservation does not require repeating every harmful phrase in the article body.
Institutional betrayal and system failure
Survivor-centered writing should not make an individual carry responsibility for the failures of police, prosecutors, courts, schools, banks, employers, charities, media, medical professionals, or other institutions.
Ask:
- What did the institution know?
- When did it know?
- What policy or duty applied?
- What did the survivor report?
- Who received the report?
- What action followed?
- What records were created or omitted?
- Were warnings ignored, minimized, delayed, or redirected?
- Did power differences affect the response?
- What changed after public exposure?
Document institutional conduct with the same sourcing discipline applied to individuals.
Avoid praising routine institutional action as heroic when the record documents earlier failure. Avoid describing accountability as a gift to survivors.
Writing about death, suicide, and substance use
Use accurate, neutral language.
Prefer “died by suicide” rather than “committed suicide.” Avoid detailed descriptions of method unless essential to a documented public interest and approved through heightened review.
Do not speculate that a death, overdose, relapse, or substance use was caused by trauma unless a qualified source or the person’s own public account supports the connection.
Avoid moralizing terms such as “addict,” “clean,” or “dirty.” Use person centered language and describe the relevant conduct or diagnosis accurately.
Include support resources when an article contains substantial discussion of suicide, sexual violence, trafficking, or acute distress.
Cultural humility and intersectionality
Trauma and public exposure are shaped by race, gender, disability, class, immigration status, sexuality, religion, language, nationality, and community power.
Editors should not assume:
- Every survivor trusts police or courts.
- Public identification carries the same risk for everyone.
- Family or community responses are culturally uniform.
- A person’s silence means indifference.
- English legal or clinical terminology matches the person’s preferred language.
- A person with a disability lacks agency.
- Men and boys are unaffected by stigma surrounding sexual violence.
- Transgender or nonbinary survivors should be described through identity assigned in older records.
Use the person’s current name and pronouns when known, while explaining historical record variations only when necessary for identification or search.
Ask what you do not know. Do not turn cultural difference into suspicion.
Harmful language and better alternatives
| Avoid | Prefer | Why |
|---|---|---|
| “Underage woman” | “Girl,” “teenager,” or “minor” | Children are not younger versions of adults |
| “Child prostitute” | “Child subjected to commercial sexual exploitation” | A child cannot consent to prostitution |
| “Had sex with a minor” | “Sexually abused a minor,” when supported | Names the conduct as abuse rather than mutual sex |
| “Affair” | “Alleged exploitation,” “abuse,” or the precise relationship | “Affair” implies adult consent and mutuality |
| “The alleged victim claimed” | “The complaint alleged” or “she testified” | Places uncertainty on the conduct and identifies the source |
| “Why did she go back?” | “The record describes continued contact within a pattern of grooming or dependency” | Adds relevant power context when supported |
| “She failed to report” | “She did not report at that time” | Avoids assigning a duty or blame |
| “Her story changed” | “The later account differed on the date” | Identifies the exact difference |
| “She suffers from PTSD” | “She described living with PTSD” or “the record documents a PTSD diagnosis” | Uses person centered and attributed language |
| “Victim” in every sentence | The person’s name, chosen term, or relevant role | Avoids reducing identity to harm |
| “Sex scandal” | “Sex trafficking investigation” or “sexual abuse case” | Names the actual public interest issue |
| “Shocking confession” | “Sworn testimony” or “public statement” | Avoids turning trauma into clickbait |
Words should be selected for accuracy, not merely gentleness. Sometimes the clearest trauma-informed word is the strongest one.
Editing a draft for trauma-informed practice
Use four passes.
Pass one: Identity and privacy
Check names, pseudonyms, ages, addresses, contact information, photographs, metadata, tags, and indirect identifying details.
Pass two: Agency and power
Check whether the story describes the survivor only through abuse. Add supported context about voice, action, advocacy, resistance, and institutional response. Explain relevant power imbalances.
Pass three: Language and detail
Replace euphemisms, blame, sensationalism, and unnecessary graphic material. Confirm that children are described as children and sexual violence as violence.
Pass four: Evidence and legal status
Verify attribution, quotations, allegations, denials, court outcomes, and citations. Trauma-informed framing cannot replace evidence review.
Review the headline, Snapshot, captions, tables, source list, meta description, tags, and social preview. Harm can enter through any of them.
Contributor wellbeing and vicarious trauma
Repeated exposure to testimony, abuse descriptions, graphic records, institutional betrayal, and hostile public discussion can affect contributors.
Possible signs of strain may include sleep disruption, intrusive thoughts, irritability, numbness, avoidance, difficulty concentrating, hopelessness, or feeling unable to stop researching. These experiences do not prove a diagnosis, but they can signal a need for rest or support.
Contributors may:
- Decline an assignment.
- Stop reading a document.
- Rotate away from survivor testimony.
- Work on citations, indexes, links, or technical tasks.
- Limit research hours.
- Avoid traumatic material before sleep.
- Use content warnings in team spaces.
- Ask a trained editor to take over.
- Seek peer or professional support.
Do not store graphic or sensitive material where family members, children, clients, coworkers, or other unauthorized people may encounter it.
The archive does not become safer when a contributor becomes overwhelmed.
When not to publish
Delay or stop publication when:
- Identity is uncertain.
- Consent terms are unclear.
- A protected pseudonym may be exposed.
- The article contains unnecessary private information.
- Graphic detail lacks a clear public interest purpose.
- A living person faces a serious allegation that has not received required review.
- A child can be identified through combined details.
- The source may be unlawful, sealed, manipulated, or restricted.
- The draft diagnoses a person without a proper source.
- The headline sensationalizes the survivor’s experience.
- The writer is too distressed to complete a careful review.
- An editor has raised an unresolved safety concern.
Publishing later is better than causing preventable harm now.
Trauma-informed publication checklist
Before publication, confirm that the page:
- Uses the person’s chosen public name or protected pseudonym.
- Does not expose a separate protected identity.
- Uses “survivor,” “victim,” “witness,” or another term appropriately.
- Identifies the source of every allegation.
- Names sexual violence accurately.
- Does not imply that a child consented.
- Explains relevant power and coercion without speculation.
- Avoids unnecessary graphic detail.
- Includes an appropriate content warning.
- Preserves the person’s agency and life beyond the abuse.
- Does not diagnose behavior or memory.
- Describes differences in accounts precisely.
- Includes material denials and legal outcomes.
- Omits irrelevant credibility attacks and sexual history.
- Protects addresses, contact information, medical details, and family information.
- Uses a respectful headline, image, caption, alt text, and meta description.
- Links readers to support resources when appropriate.
- Has received heightened review when required.
- Follows the EpsteinWiki Editorial Standards.
If any answer is no, the page is not ready.
Support resources
If you or someone you know has experienced sexual violence, support is available.
RAINN’s National Sexual Assault Hotline provides confidential support in English and Spanish. Call 800.656.HOPE, use the online chat, or text HOPE to 64673.
The EpsteinWiki survivor resources page collects additional support information.
The NCMEC CyberTipline receives reports concerning suspected online child exploitation. If a person is in immediate danger, contact emergency services.
EpsteinWiki is an archive and research project. It is not a crisis service, therapy provider, law firm, or law enforcement agency.
Related EpsteinWiki standards and guides
- EpsteinWiki Editorial Standards
- EpsteinWiki Investigative Standards
- Contributor Instructions
- Contributor Onboarding Guide
- Working With Survivor Testimony
- Survivor Testimony Template
- Privacy Safeguards for Minors
- Handling Sensitive Material
- How to Read an Epstein Document
- Handling Contradictory Evidence
- Corrections Policy
- Contact EpsteinWiki
External guidance and support sources
- SAMHSA Trauma-Informed Approaches and Programs
- SAMHSA Interagency Task Force on Trauma-Informed Care
- Global Center for Journalism and Trauma style guide
- Global Center Trauma and Journalism Practical Guide
- RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline
- RAINN Share Your Story guidance
- NCMEC CyberTipline
- Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics
Editorial note
This toolkit provides writing and editorial guidance, not medical, psychological, or legal advice. It should not be used to diagnose trauma, judge credibility, or replace qualified survivor support. Practices may evolve as evidence, language, community standards, and professional guidance change.