New Research on Hospital Based Violence Intervention Programs

The Joyce Foundation invites you to join the fifth webinar in the series focused on firearms research commissioned by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This webinar will cover new research on hospital-based violence intervention programs (HVIPs), in which medical staff and trusted community messengers offer patients immediate support and tools for preventing future injury and violence. Research suggests that HVIPs may effectively reduce the chances of patients experiencing violence again.



Fatimah Loren Dreier
Executive Director
Health Alliance for Violence Intervention: The HAVI
 


Dr. Michel Aboutanos
Medical Director, Injury & Violence Prevention Program
Virginia Commonwealth University


Dr. Nicholas Thomson
Director of Research, Injury & Violence Prevention Program
Virginia Commonwealth University
 
In this webinar, the Executive Director of the HAVI and researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University will discuss the HVIP model, and new findings that explore the impact of brief hospital-based interventions and a regional approach to HVIP implementation. These findings suggest that brief hospital-based interventions and those with longer-term case management services both helped change patients’ attitudes related to violence and reduced the likelihood of experiencing violence again. To expand programs like these, the research shows that a regional model connecting and coordinating HVIPs through a technical assistance center can be beneficial.