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5 Contagion and Interruption in Practice
5 Contagion and Interruption in Practice
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Speakers at the workshop also explored some real-life examples of this contagion at work, bringing all of these concepts together, as well as interventions currently in practice that seek to reduce it. THE CONTAGION IN ACTION Speakers Jason Featherstone of Surviving Our Streets and Zainab AlSuwaij of the American-Islamic Congress both spoke of recent occurrences in which single acts of violence sparked an epidemic in very different ways.
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He stated, for example, that in the case of Mark Duggan, some of the immediate incendiary violence might have been prevented if police had spoken to the family and conveyed a sense of working with the community. Speaker and planning committee member Charlotte Watts of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine shared concerns that while interruption programs reduced street violence, they did not address the underlying issues that
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Ms. Al-Suwaij also noted challenges in the Ambassadors for Peace program, notably continuing political violence, lack of trust in law enforcement (an issue that is being addressed)
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They also work with high-risk individuals in the community to reduce tensions and other conditions that might result in violence. In introducing the film, facilitator and planning committee member Brian Flynn of the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine explored some key concepts in the natural cycle of violence.
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School-Based Intervention Speaker Patrick Burton of the Center for Justice and Crime Prevention in South Africa shared his experience with working in schools in South Africa to reduce violence in youth. The program, in particular, was interested in preventing "low-level," high-frequency violence such as bullying and dating violence, and in improving academic outcomes.
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In the most successful sites, where there has been integration with parenting programs and the school's efforts, school-based violence has dropped significantly, some down to zero. Family Violence Prevention and Interruption In thinking about interrupting violence at the family level, speaker V alerie Maholmes of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health & Human Development explored a series of studies being funded by her institute.
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Trauma-Informed Approaches Speaker John Rich of the Drexel University School of Public Health spoke of the importance of the trauma-informed approach to violence prevention, noting that trauma is at the center of violence and that "hurt people hurt people." He also referenced other words from Sandra Bloom from the Drexel University School of Public Health about reframing inquiry from asking about what is wrong with someone to asking what happened to someone, knowing that early adversity and stress can have deleterious effects. In thinking about how to approach the interruption of violence in the health care setting, Dr.
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Dr. Rich explained that hospital-based interventions are about recognizing the additional trauma faced, as a bigger picture approach to reducing violence.
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CONTAGION AND INTERRUPTION IN PRACTICE 49 Key Messages Raised by Individual Speakers • The spread of violence has a number of complex factors, including social and contextual undercurrents that fuel frustration, anger, and mistrust in systems (Featherstone, Flynn, Rich)
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