title: Continuing care beyond the hospital walls and onto the streets.
abstract: Trauma center nurses joined forces with their city's leaders and organizations to address juvenile violence and crime. Metropolitan Partners Against Crime's primary initiatives focus on overcoming race, class and gender variances and establishing community awareness programs.
authors.affiliation: Surgical Services/Neuroscience, Medical Center of Louisiana, New Orleans, USA.
authors.forename: C W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Godchaux
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare; D003415:Crime / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016529:Emergency Nursing; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008145:Louisiana; D009938:Organizations; D016495:Police; D014505:Urban Population; D014838:Volunteers