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Volume 5 Issue 1
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SAVE THE DATE FOR THE
2014 NNHVIP CONFERENCE!
The 2014 NNHVIP Conference will be held
on Monday, September 8th and
Tuesday, September 9th
in Philadelphia.
More details coming soon!
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Congratulations to the
2013 Marla Becker Scholarship Winner!
Congratulations to
Kings Against Violence Initiative (KAVI)
in Brooklyn, New York, the 2013 Marla Becker Scholarship winner!
Kings Against Violence Initiative (KAVI) is a hospital, school, and community-based organization located at Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, New York, which provides young people with productive and safe alternatives to engaging in interpersonal violence by empowering youth and cultivating their untapped potential.
More information about KAVI can be found
More information about the Marla Becker Scholarship can be found here.
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Massachusetts VIAP Featured in
Boston Globe Article
A recent article in the Boston Globe about Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh's visit to Boston Medical Center features the Massachusetts Violence Intervention Advocacy Program, and includes interviews with Dr. Thea James, Director of the program, Elizabeth Dugan, Program Manager, Kendall Bruce, Program Advocate, and Roy Martin of the Boston Public Health Commission and speaker at the 2012 NNHVIP Conference.
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Article on Screening Patients for PTSD in Trauma Centers Features Baltimore VIP and Healing Hurt People
A recent Pro Publica article discusses "The PTSD Crisis That's Being Ignored" and the need for routine PTSD screening of victims of violence in hospital trauma centers. It features interviews with Dr. Carnell Cooper, Director of the Baltimore Violence Intervention Program (VIP), Dr. Sandra Bloom Co-Director for the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice in Philadelphia, as well as Dr. Ted Corbin, Medical Director, and Tony Thompson, Community Intervention Specialist, for the Healing Hurt People program in Philadelphia.
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Healing Hurt People Featured in
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Interview and Article
Dr. Ted Corbin, Medical Director for the Healing Hurt People program in Philadelphia, was interviewed for a recent broadcast and article by Oregon Public Broadcasting about the impact of hospital-based violence intervention programs on violence. The broadast also features the Healing Hurt People program in Portland, Oregon.
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NNHVIP
is dedicated to
strengthening existing hospital-based violence intervention programs and helping develop similar programs in communities across the country.
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Recent Research
Reed, E. et al. (2014). Adolescent Experiences of Violence and Relation to Violence Perpetration beyond Young Adulthood among an Urban Sample of Black and African American Males. Journal of Urban Health, (91)1, 96-106.
Full Text
Lowe, S.R., Galea, S., Uddin, M., & Koenen, K.C. (2014). Trajectories of Posttraumatic Stress Among Urban Residents. American Journal of Community Psychology, (53) 1-2, 159-172.
Abstract
Huntley, E. D., Hall Brown, T. S., Kobayashi, I. and Mellman, T. A. (2014), Validation of the Fear of Sleep Inventory (FOSI) in an Urban Young Adult African American Sample. J. Traum. Stress, 27: 103-107.
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Funding Opportunities
Research on the Health Determinants and Consequences of Violence and its Prevention, Particularly Firearm Violence (R01, R03, R21)
Research and Evaluation on Firearms and Violence
Centers for Disease Control:
Research Grants for Preventing Violence and Violence Related Injury, and
Research on Children Exposed to Violence
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NNHVIP
Best Practices Guide
Violence is Preventable: A Best Practices Guide for Launching & Sustaining a Hospital-based Program to Break the Cycle of Violence
To order a copy, click here
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Quarterly E-Bulletin
The E-Bulletin is distributed Quarterly. 2014 distribution dates are: March 2014 June 2014 September 2014 December 2014 |
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Contact Us
| Ayana Bradshaw
NNHVIP Project Manager
bradshawa@email.chop.edu
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This e-bulletin was produced by Drexel University under grant #2011-VF-GX-K019 awarded by the Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this e-bulletin are those of the contributors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.
 
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National Network of Hospital-based Violence Intervention Programs (NNHVIP)
Baltimore, MD, Boston, MA, Camden, NJ, Chicago, IL, Cincinnati, OH,
Denver, CO, Indianapolis, IN, Las Vegas, NV, London, England, Los Angeles, CA,
Milwaukee, WI, Oakland, CA, Philadelphia, PA, Richmond, CA, Richmond, VA, Rochester, NY,
Sacramento, CA, San Francisco, CA, San Jose, CA, Savannah, GA, Washington, DC
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