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As participants were painfully aware, though the workshop on community violence as a population health issue had been in the planning stages for several weeks, just a few days earlier, on June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen shot and killed 49 people and injured 53 others at Pulse, a gay nightclub located in Orlando, Florida. Isham said 1 The planning committee's role was limited to planning the workshop, and the Proceed ings of a Workshop was prepared by the workshop rapporteurs as a factual summary of what occurred at the workshop.
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WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES An important activity of the roundtable is to hold workshops for its members, stakeholders, and the public to discuss issues that contribute to improving the nation's health. An independent planning committee, chaired by Thomas LaVeist, and including Theodore Corbin, Rachel Davis, Amanda Geller, Marthe Gold, Gary Gunderson, John Rich, Therese Richmond, Lourdes Rodríguez, and Daniel Webster, was charged with developing a workshop to explore community violence and trauma through a health equity lens (see Box 1-1)
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The workshop may high light and explore examples of community-based organizations using trauma informed approaches to treat violence and build safe and healthy communities; strategies to build resilience in children, adults, and communities; hospital and health system violence intervention programs; trauma-informed policing; and the evidence base for the effectiveness of these strategies and approaches to reduc ing violence and its impact on communities. The workshop intends to showcase examples that can serve as models in different sectors and communities and share lessons learned in new and compelling ways.
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. ORGANIZATION OF THE PROCEEDINGS This Proceedings of a Workshop synthesizes the discussions that occurred during the workshop, highlights the speakers' perspectives on community violence as a population health issue, and discusses some of 4 The draft resource list developed by staff as background reading for the workshop in cludes information on many additional violence prevention initiatives, though it was also not intended to be comprehensive, but rather illustrative of national initiatives.
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Chapter 3 describes some social and physical interventions that can change landscapes of violence, and Chapter 4 addresses local strategies to build community resilience and safety. Chapter 5 discusses some lessons learned from select approaches and initiatives designed to reduce community violence, and Chapter 6 explores public health– informed approaches to community policing and collaboration.
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