As violent crime in Chicago continues to soar, University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children’s Hospital announced it’s creating a new program to treat families and children affected by violence.
The program will provide screening and mental health care for hundreds of residents affected by violence in many of Chicago’s South and West Side neighborhoods. It's being called the University of Chicago Medicine Recovery and Empowerment After Community Trauma (UCM REACT).
“Chicago’s struggles with gun violence mean the day-to-day lives of so many of our children are shaped by community violence,” said Bradley Stolbach, a pediatric trauma psychologist at Comer Children’s Hospital, in a news release.
“That has major ripple effects, not just for those who’ve been injured, but kids who witness violence, who know people who’ve been killed or hurt, or who have to walk to school on streets where shootings take place. Youth who may be physically unscathed wind up coping with chronic stress from worrying about something as basic as their own safety.”
[For more of this story, written by Kristin Thometz, go to http://chicagotonight.wttw.com...es-affected-violence]
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