Healing Hurt People/Center for Nonviolence & Social Justice

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Healing Hurt People is a community-focused, hospital-based program in Philadelphia, PA. designed to reduce reinjury and retaliation among youth ages 8-30 using a trauma-informed care framework.

General Info

Healing Hurt People is the cornerstone program of the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice (Center) at the School of Public Health and Drexel University College of Medicine. The mission of the Center is to decrease violence and trauma through public health policy, practice, research and training. The Center was established with generous support from the Thomas Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation. Additional support for the center and the Healing Hurt People (HHP) program is provided by the Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health. The direct service staff of HHP includes a trauma-trained social worker and a community intervention specialist who identify injured youth in the emergency department in an effort to reduce retaliation and interrupt future involvement in violence and crime. When a patient is seen in the ED for intentional injury, hospital staff contact HHP staff who then engage the patient to connect him/her to a variety of services, such as: emotional support for post-traumatic stress; support groups for victims of violence and their families; mentoring; substance abuse treatment, victim compensation; parenting education and support; job training and placement; medical insurance; and after-school program referral. Staff ensure that the patient has a safe place to go upon leaving the hospital. Follow-up is made through phone calls and scheduled home visits after discharge to ensure that clients have successfully connected to referred support services. Support continues on a periodic basis to ensure progress. HHP staff serve as navigators for the client to the various support services, providing transportation when necessary, accompanying youth to appointments, and providing much-needed support and mentoring. Weekly case reviews are conducted with the interdisciplinary team to ensure function of the program and management of challenging cases. The work of HHP is divided into five primary components: assessment, navigation and case management, mentoring, S.E.L.F. psychoeducational groups, and case review.

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Healing Hurt People/Center for Nonviolence & Social Justice is Philadelphia based place and this enity listed in Non-Profit Organization category.