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Pathways to Peace: Healing Hurt People's small victories in Philly may translate to Cleveland

Brie Zeltner

June 07, 2016 |

Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Victims of violence that end up in the emergency room can return within two years with more injuries because of retaliation efforts. Philadelphia’s Healing Hurt People is a hospital-based violence intervention program that assists individuals who need medical care and mental health services. The hospital and social work collaboration helps reduce emergency room costs.

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Pathways to Peace: In Philadelphia, a dealer becomes a healer

Brie Zeltner

June 07, 2016 |

Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Healing Hurt People (HHP), the program that helped save his life, now employs men like Jermaine McCorey - men who used to be a part of a violent life on the streets of Philadelphia - to reach out to boys and young men in the emergency department and help get them through empathy and personalized support. HHP's goal is to help young people recognize the role trauma has played in shaping their lives, to respect and honor their experience and to help them avoid fueling the cycle of violence.

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Pathways to Peace: Philadelphia's Healing Hurt People helps violence victims recover

Brie Zeltner

June 07, 2016 |

Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Healing Hurt People program, or HHP, is an ER-based violence intervention program that works on the public health-based notion that violence - like other diseases that spread - can be prevented. It targets services to those at highest risk, patients like those in Philadelphia, who are being treated for violent injuries in the city's emergency rooms. Unlike other programs, it recognizes and attempts to heal the underlying emotional trauma that results from, and often predates, violent injury.

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In Philadelphia, healing trauma is intense, difficult work: Pathways to Peace

Brie Zeltner

June 07, 2016 |

Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Healing trauma has never been an easy process but programs like Healing Hurt People help to promote recovery in traumatized, angry young men. This program, in partnership with local medical services, aims to provide therapy in place of violence, which would only cause more trauma down the road. Those who stick with the program have found great success in overcoming their pasts.

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Project Longevity's lessons on gangs offer insights for Cleveland: Pathways to Peace

John Caniglia

June 06, 2016 |

Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

Photojournalism |

Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, New Haven, Connecticut

New Haven's Project Longevity has measurably reduced gang violence through an approach brings law enforcement, social service groups, and community leaders together to offer teenagers and young men incentives to stop the violence, and a way out for those who need help. It's a model that may provide a solution for other cities facing gang violence.

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Job center inside House of Corrections gives inmates new opportunities

Gina Barton

June 05, 2016 |

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Job training is an invaluable resource to prisoners who may not have any other resources for such a thing. A new job center, established with a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Labor, aims to assist 1,000 Milwaukee County offenders over two years.

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'Pathways to Peace' explores solutions to youth violence

George Rodrigue

June 05, 2016 |

Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland is responding to its gun violence epidemic with a combination of effective policing, social service agencies, and former offenders deployed to break cycles of violence in their communities.

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Giving Homeless People Homes In SF Saved City 56% In Costs Over 4 Years

Eleanor Goldberg

June 03, 2016 |

The Huffington Post |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

In San Francisco, empirical evidence emerges that providing housing to the homeless reduces the overall cost to the average taxpayer, in large part by reducing homeless populations' dependence on other city services and improving their health by offering shelter.

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How a Police Detective Helps Inmates Prepare to Live on the Outside

Simone Weichselbaum

June 02, 2016 |

The Marshall Project |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Gig Harbor, Washington

In the United States, the incarcerated feel like they have no voices and their mistakes that led them to jail go unacknowledged. A documentary film spotlights the IF Project, a writing program that encourages female inmates and recently released felons to write down what they would have done to change the path they went on. With police and teachers as mentors, the convicted have support transitioning into society and can reflect on what they can do to change their lives for the better.

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Legal Aid With a Digital Twist

Tina Rosenberg

June 01, 2016 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Software and apps are helping millions of Americans trying to solve civil problems on their own.

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