Patients who are admitted to the hospital following a firearm-related assault face high risk of fatal or nonfatal reinjury. Hospital-based violence intervention programs (HVIPs) intervene during hospitalization to provide comprehensive care for survivors of violent injury, connecting them with a variety of social services that can address survivors’ psychological trauma, risk factors for violence, and the social-ecological factors that may have contributed to their initial injury and risk of future injury.
In this seventh episode of our webinar series, Nerisha Harris, Chevist Johnson, and Esmeralda Huerta, Violence Intervention Specialists, talk about their experience providing culturally-affirming care at the bedside of injured patients through the UC Davis Wraparound Trauma Prevention Program.
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Nerisha Harris, Chevist Johnson, and Esmeralda Huerta are Violence Intervention Specialists at the UC Davis Wraparound Trauma Prevention Program. Mrs. Harris, an Associate Marriage Family Therapist, has extensive training providing trauma-informed support, case management, and mental health services to those that need it most. Mr. Johnson is a certified Gang Intervention Specialist with over 15 years of experience working with both victims and perpetrators of violence crime. And Mrs. Huerta, a certified Violence Prevention Professional, partners closely with community agencies in Sacramento and provides comprehensive case management to violently injured young people.
Their experience and awareness brings empathy, courage, and mentorship to victims of violence in their steps to recovery. Mrs. Harris, Mr. Johnson, and Mrs. Huerta seek to provide trauma-informed counseling, tools for resilience, and advocacy to support victims leave traumatic lifestyles behind, in hopes of discovering a new direction in life.
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