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Treating violence as systemic and a public health issue
Monday s panelists largely agreed about the need to better understand the systemic problems that are fueling violent crime in Louisville and to implement violence prevention programs that approach rising crime as a matter of public health. We know that from a public health perspective that there are multiple levels of influence when we re talking about violence, Williams said. It s not just the individual behavior, but there are multiple factors that influence that individual s behavior … We have to deploy strategies that are prevention oriented, that are intervention oriented, that have an eye on organizational and developmental change.
May 17, 2021
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (May 17, 2021) – Dr. Monique Williams, director of the city’s Office for Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods (OSHN), spoke today to Metro Council, outlining many of the ways that Mayor Greg Fischer’s FY22 budget would enhance the Department’s role in helping create a safer Louisville.
Mayor Fischer’s proposed FY22 budget would invest $4.5 million in OSHN to advance his whole-of-government approach to violence reduction. This investment includes expansion of the Pivot to Peace initiative – evidence-based gun violence reduction strategies, including the existing hospital-based partnership, as well as an outreach system, clergy response team, and supports for the Gun Violence Intervention program. With the hospital-based initiative alone, the city has reduced injury recidivism among participants by 95 percent.
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April 12, 2021
Mayor Greg Fischer today joined the Office for Safe and Healthy Neighborhood’s (OSHN) Youth Implementation Team, representatives from Jefferson County Public Schools, Metro Council and other organizations serving the city’s youth to announce Louisville’s participation in National Youth Violence Prevention Week (NYVPW), an initiative designed to raise awareness about youth violence and highlight prevention strategies involving youth, parents, teachers, school personnel and community members.
“Public safety is something we – the public – have to work together to create. That’s the message we’re focusing on this week as we observe National Youth Violence Prevention Week here in Louisville to raise awareness about what we can do as a community to address this challenge,” said Mayor Fischer. “We owe it to all our kids to do all we can as a community to keep them, their families and our neighborhoods safe. Because witnessing a violent crime, worryin