Join the Stoneleigh Foundation and Drexel University's Healing Hurt People for a presentation and discussion on an innovative approach for addressing the mental health needs of Philadelphia youth impacted by community violence.
Over the past two decades, hospital-based violence intervention programs (HVIPs) have been created to meet the needs of youth impacted by violence. Historically, HVIPs have focused on reducing re-injury and retaliation and accessing case management services. Only recently have HVIP’s implemented interventions focused on mental health.
Established in Philadelphia in 2007, Healing Hurt People (HHP) is a hospital and community-based violence intervention program (HVIP) at Drexel University. Since 2009, HHP has provided services to pediatric victims of violence in partnership with St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children. In 2013, HHP onboarded its first Community Health Worker Peer, and in 2018, launched the implementation of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT).
This webinar will reflect on the foundation and evolution of HHP and present findings from the implementation of home and community-based TF-CBT with peer services and case management for Black and Latino children ages 8 to 18 and their caregivers.
Presenters:
- Judith Cohen | Professor of Psychiatry, Drexel University College of Medicine; Medical Director, Center for Traumatic Stress for Children and Adolescents at Allegheny Health Network; TF-CBT co-developer.
- Ted Corbin | Professor and Chairperson, Department of Emergency Medicine, Rush University Medical Center; co-founder Healing Hurt People
- Waltkeem Jenkins | Community Health Worker Peer, Healing Hurt People, Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health
- Arturo Zinny | Stoneleigh Fellow and Assistant Clinical Professor/Executive Director, Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice, Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health