The Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice (CNVSJ) is a Center in the Drexel University School of Public Health. CNVSJ works to promote health, nonviolence and social justice through trauma-informed practice, research, professional development, and advocacy for policy change. Healing Hurt People (HHP) is the programmatic component of the center.
Healing Hurt People (HHP) is a community-focused, hospital-based program designed to reduce re-injury, retaliation, and longstanding emotional disruption (PTSD and other stress symptoms) among individuals ages 8-3t in Philadelphia. HHP employs a trauma-informed approach, which takes into account the adversity that clients have experienced over their life course and recognizes that addressing this trauma is critical to breaking the cycle of violence.
Healing Hurt People participants are victims of intentional injury (not domestic violence, parental violence, or sexual violence) or witnesses to the same types of violence and have been treated for their injury at SCHC or seen in the community setting. We engage with young people ages 8-35 to address the needs—physical, emotional, and social—that occur after interpersonal violent injury.
The Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice (CNVSJ) is a Center in the Drexel University School of Public Health. CNVSJ works to promote health, nonviolence and social justice through trauma-informed practice, research…