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"His organization, he said, also is filling a niche, creating block clubs on
26th Avenue N., one of the most troubled streets in the city, and bringing
people from Linden Hills to help."
(source: http://www.star tribune.com/stories/587/5481301.html 06/29/05)
If I may, there is a rap out talking about some of the worst streets in
Minneapolis and St. Paul; and Duce-Six, as it's called. (26th Avenue) is
known as the devil lair. Most people say this is where the devil does reside
and exist. To help combat the violence and I do mean violence seen and
unseen, one most talk about theme is to wake up and realize that the role
Public Health can paly and is olayig inother states, is a key to helping
curb violence. May I offer some evidence that I was sent by SRO Ken
Davis,Yonkers, NY, who has done research and has sent me some links on this
very issue. I've also received others correspondence from other folks, such
as the FBI, detectives, social workers, and gang violence researchers, the
evidence is out there.
Gang violence is a law enforcement challenge but it is also a public health
issue. Pathologies afflict the gang-initiated. For grief-ridden survivors of
fatalities, fearful residents living in gang territory and victims who
survive gang violence, there is often undiagnosed mental trauma. Emergency
medical centers are often strained by gang-related carnage.
Its been almost two decades since the U.S. surgeon generals first
conference on the public health dimensions of violence. According to the
World Health Organization, significant gains have been made in epidemiology
to understand risk factors for violence and to apply prevention strategies.
However, gang violence is primarily framed as a public safety issue. Its a
frame that promotes the perception that the only major solutions are related
to law enforcement. In this frame, there are no connections between medical
practitioners and gang members, victims and community stakeholders beyond
the nexus of the emergency room.
This frame can be refocused if:
Public health officials, mental health experts and providers of emergency
medical care more effectively explain the impact of gang activity on public
health and more actively disseminate the medical and psychiatric approaches
to mitigating gang violence.
Community stakeholders involved in counseling and intervention engage public
health and medical officials in solutions-based partnerships.
Journalists better understand the largely under-reported impact of gangs and
gang violence on public health and find sources who can present health-based
solutions.
Source: http://uclaccc.ucla.edu/gang violence.php
As a particpant os PHAC, I am dedicated and committied to bring the folks
listed together and working on some these very same issues. If you are a
doctor, and are interested, please contact me of online and I will discuss
the fall training, on gangs and violence a Public Health issue. Who knows,
that dream team may come about.
Vanessa Freeman Hawthorne Neighborhood
Chair Minneapolis Department of Public Health Advisory Committee.
Innovation, everyday entrepreneurship, and creativity are the aims of
collaboration."
Vanessa L. Freeman
Peter Keen
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