Laura Kirchner's recent article in the Pacific Standard Journal highlights the benefits of several hospital based violence intervention programs. The idea behind these programs in the hospital settings is that, while victims of violence might have other opportunities to connect with social workers or other resources at other times in their lives, the time right when they are recovering from their injuries may be the most crucial. So the people who are surrounding them at that time should be trained to help them make the right choices. ACEs Connection members Joel Fein and Jonathan Purtle, who are part of the National Network of Hospital Violence Intervention Programs (NNHVIP) are mentioned in the article which can be found here.
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