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Community Violence as a Population Health Issue: Proceedings of a Workshopin Brief
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Individual participants discussed the effects of trauma and violence on communities and explored approaches that communities and multisector partners are using to build safe, resilient, and healthy communities. Individual participants discussed community- and hospital-based antiviolence programs, community policing, blight reduction, and the community's participation in initiatives, including the youth and adults at risk or responsible for much of the violence in communities.
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These injured youth, said Rich, are likely to experience depression, which is as common an outcome of trauma as PTSD. Steven Marans of the Yale School of Medicine and the National Center for Children Exposed to Violence/Childhood Violent Trauma Center at the Yale Child Study Center said that it was important to be clear that from a clinical perspective trauma refers to an injury that is unlike any other situation.
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It integrates the concept of psychological injury that results from protracted exposure to prolonged social and interpersonal trauma in the context of either captivity or entrapment. BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES Building community resilience means creating safer public spaces by improving the built environment, parks, housing quality, and transportation (Davis et al., 2016)
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Inside the Jacobi Medical Center is a hospital trauma center that receives anyone involved in a shooting in the northern section of Bronx, New York. It is there that shooting victims meet the hospital responder who will immediately engage them and try to get information to help prevent a retaliatory attack, said Rodríguez.
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Researchers seeking to study changes in social norms face similar challenges. Jeffrey Butts of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and his research team are disentangling the incidents of violence based on all of the administrative data they can accumulate and measuring social norms to see if the changes in these incidents of violence comport with any movement in norms.3 The Cure Violence theory, said Butts, is that lasting change comes from changing the way the community thinks about violence.
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program, was developed in response to a tremendous increase in community violence, said Marans. The CDCP program is a collaborative partnership among the New Haven police, Yale Child Study Center clinicians, and other social service agencies.
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. In 2014, the agencies launched the coordinated grant solicitations for demonstration sites promoting public health and community policing approaches to minority youth violence prevention, said Medina Henry, an associate director for training and technical assistance at the Court for Center Innovation.
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The responsibility for the published Proceedings of a Workshop -- in Brief rests with the rapporteur and the institution. REVIEWERS: To ensure that it meets institutional standards for quality and objectivity, this Proceedings of a Workshop -- in Brief was reviewed by Gary Gunderson, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, and Lourdes Rodríguez, New York State Health Foundation.
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