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Hospital-Based Violence Prevention Programs: From the Ground Up

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This chapter contains a personal narrative of THRIVE, the Prince George’s, Maryland hospital-based violence prevention program, over the course of a year. It details a brief history of the concept, operationalizing the project, successes, lessons learned, and recommendations for the future.

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  1. College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, USA

    Joseph B. Richardson Jr

  2. Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Division of Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, College Park, MD, USA

    Joseph B. Richardson Jr

  3. Transformative Research and Applied Violence Intervention Lab, African-American Studies Department, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, USA

    Che Bullock

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  1. Department of Surgery, University of Florida College of Medicine Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL, USA

    Marie Crandall

  2. Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, USA

    Stephanie Bonne

  3. NRI, Falls Church, VA, USA

    Jennifer Bronson

  4. School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, USA

    Woodie Kessel

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Richardson, J.B., Bullock, C. (2021). Hospital-Based Violence Prevention Programs: From the Ground Up. In: Crandall, M., Bonne, S., Bronson, J., Kessel, W. (eds) Why We Are Losing the War on Gun Violence in the United States. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55513-9_16

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