Hospital Based Violence Intervention Programs - An Overview and Conversation with Trauma Experts
Start: 2021-10-04 20:00:00 UTC Eastern Standard Time (US & Canada) (GMT-05:00)
End: 2021-10-04 21:00:00 UTC Eastern Standard Time (US & Canada) (GMT-05:00)
This is a virtual event
Gun Violence Prevention is one way DFA is focused on Community Health and Prevention. Learn more, and get involved in this critical advocacy work.
If you attend, you will learn about Hospital Based Violence Intervention Programs and:
- The Incidence of Gun Violence
- The Challenges for health systems
- How to work with your community as partner
- The Danger of retaliation
- Funding Barriers to establishing this initiative
- How the Hospital can be a partner
- Reduction in Emergency Department recidivism
- Changing hospital culture related to justice-involved patients
- Ask questions in a safe space about the challenges of advocacy
Speakers:
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Tracy Evans, DNP, RN, MS, MPH, MBA, is a Hospital Director of the Violence Intervention Program in Paterson, New Jersey, and is on DFA's National Steering Committee for Gun Violence Prevention. Her professional career has included emergency clinical care as a community paramedic, flight nurse, and nurse practitioner.
Liza Chowdhury, PhD is a critical criminologist with over 17 years of experience working with youth and 16 years of teaching experience. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Social Science Department at Borough of Manhattan Community College. Her passion and commitment to community-based advocacy work led her to co-founding a nonprofit entitled Reimagining Justice Inc. Since 2018, Dr. Chowdhury has consulted, trained and mentored several youth and practitioners on the importance of advocacy, dismantling oppressive practices, engaging the community and investing in community-based resources that are trauma informed and culturally competent.
In 2020, Dr. Chowdhury partnered with St. Joseph's hospital to apply for a grant to launch the first Hospital Based Violence intervention program in Paterson, NJ. Since the launch of the program in October 2020, the program has engaged over 90 victims of violence. Dr. Chowdhury leads the program as the Project Director and continues to advocate for resources and investment for community based public safety infrastructure and addressing violence as a public health issue. Her future goals are to continue building the program's infrastructure, support the community by investing in healing centered practices and conducting community based research that allows the voices of those impacted by violence to be centered.
