"Many urban cities around the globe can be characterized as war zones —a fitting title for a city like Philadelphia that sees hundreds of homicides annually — and there is much continuity between urban war zones and actual, declared war zones....
"For this reason, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives recently adopted a resolution that I introduced, HR 191, which declares youth violence as a public health epidemic and calls for the establishment of statewide trauma-informed education to help treat our Pennsylvania children who suffer from PTSD or other, related disorders.
"HR 191 was adopted by the House by a 187-9 margin and is another victory in what has been a long battle to establish new ways of viewing the causes of youth violence...."
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