Indianapolis Violence Reduction Partnership

Maximizing the role of emergency departments in the prevention of violence: developing an approach in South London.

This article presents an overview of a partnership between public health teams in two primary care trusts in South East London, their local acute hospital trusts, and crime and disorder reduction partnerships to support the reduction of harm from violence. It discusses recent developments in violence prevention in emergency departments in the UK, and developments around outreach and case manage...

Community-based HIV prevention research among substance-using women in survival sex work: The Maka Project Partnership

Substance-using women who exchange sex for money, drugs or shelter as a means of basic subsistence (ie. survival sex) have remained largely at the periphery of HIV and harm reduction policies and services across Canadian cities. This is notwithstanding global evidence of the multiple harms faced by this population, including high rates of violence and poverty, and enhanced vulnerabilities to HI...

Effectiveness of anonymised information sharing and use in health service, police, and local government partnership for preventing violence related injury: experimental study and time series analysis

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of anonymised information sharing to prevent injury related to violence. DESIGN Experimental study and time series analysis of a prototype community partnership between the health service, police, and local government partners designed to prevent violence. SETTING Cardiff, Wales, and 14 comparison cities designated "most similar" by the Home Office in...

A community partnership to prepare nursing students to respond to domestic violence.

TOPIC Partnership building to prepare nursing students to respond to domestic violence through service learning. PURPOSE To describe an innovative approach to preparing nursing students to respond to domestic violence. SOURCES Clinical practice and experience, published literature, partner organizations. CONCLUSIONS This community partnership has prepared nursing students to respond effec...

Final Report : “ Reducing Violent Crime and Firearms Violence : The Indianapolis Lever - Pulling Experiment ”