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AHA Resources

Cost of Community Violence to Hospitals and Health Systems, July 26, 2017

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Hospital offers at-risk youth a grim lesson about gun violence, Jan. 31, 2017

'Cradle to Grave' helps at-risk youth understand gritty reality of gun violence, Jan. 30, 2017

How one hospital is applying public health interventions in effort to curb gun violence, Nov. 3, 2016

Keeping teens from being repeat victims of gunshot, knife wounds, Aug. 18, 2016

, HPOE/HRET/AHA Guides, March 2015. This guide offers hospital leaders a model for hospital-based violence intervention that can be tailored to each community’s unique needs. 

Other Resources

, St. Louis Public Radio, March 6, 2017: The program targets children between the ages of 8 and 19 who have been treated at Children's Hospital for such things as gunshot wounds or stabbings.

, Boston Globe, Feb. 27, 2017: Gunshot victim Kynndal Martin, who benefited from Boston Medical Center’s Violence Intervention Advocacy Program, now works as a dietary aide.

, Modern Healthcare, Dec. 15, 2016: Northwestern Memorial Hospital has partnered with University of Chicago Medicine to back a program that enlists those who often are sounding boards for the community. Pastors in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood are being trained by a group of Israeli trauma counselors who, having treated victims of terror and war, say gun violence victims are experiencing much of the same psychological effects.

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