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How an Intervention Program Stops the Revolving Door of Violent Injuries [KQED California Report]

Gail Kennedy 11/21/166:05 PM

Pictured: Darius Irvin, a sophomore at San Francisco State University, has survived three separate shootings. The Wraparound Project helped him get out of the line of fire and go back to college. (Laura Klivans/KQED)

Darius Irvin grew up in violent neighborhoods in Oakland and San Francisco. While Irvin was never in a gang, he was around them a lot. One winter when he was back home in Oakland from his freshman year of college up in Chico, he knocked on the door of his barbershop. He wanted a local haircut to show off when he returned to school. Before he could get inside, though, he heard gunshots and felt a piercing pain in his buttock. He’d been shot.

He survived, but the recovery took almost two years. Then he was shot again, this time at a party in Oakland. A stray bullet hit him in the back right shoulder, where it remains today. After more recovery, he planned to move to San Francisco for a fresh start.

Listen below to KQED's CAlifornia Report's story or read it HERE

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Dana Brown (PACEs Connection Staff)Staff

Thank you Gail for sharing this inspirational article! Wrap around programs are critically imperative and life changing. Dr. Dicker at UCSF is a powerful role model of compassionate intervention for our nation to replicate.

As the author states,"Repeat injury for survivors of violent crime is remarkably high. Studies show 44 percent of people who have been shot or stabbed get violently injured again within five years, and that one out of five of those people die.

UC San Francisco professor and doctor Rochelle Dicker saw this in her own practice. During her internship years ago at the SFGH Trauma Center, she stitched up a 16-year-old who’d been violently injured, only to see him return some weeks later with even worse injuries.

With that, Dicker created the Wrapround Project in 2006. The program literally provides “wraparound” services like mentorship, job training and even getting clients their favorite foods. The program serves 10- to 30-year olds who end up at SFGH. And there’s no cutoff date for support."

11/21/1610:09 PM

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