The Trauma Response Team: a Community Intervention for Gang Violence.
While violent crime has decreased in many cities in the USA, gang-related violence remains a serious problem in impoverished inner city neighborhoods. In Syracuse, New York, gang-related murders and gun shots have topped other New York state cities. Residents of the high-murder neighborhoods suffer trauma similar to those living in civil conflict zones. The Trauma Response Team was established in 2010, in collaboration with the Police Department, health care institutions, and emergency response teams and with the research support of Syracuse University faculty. Since its inception, gang-related homicides and gun shots have decreased in the most severely affected census tracts.
Street Addiction Institute Inc., New York, NY, USA.|Trauma Response Team, Syracuse, NY, USA.
Timothy
T
Jennings-Bey
Department of Public Health and Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA. sdlane@syr.edu.|Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA. sdlane@syr.edu.
Sandra D
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9909-8172
SD
Lane
Department of Anthropology, The Maxwell School of Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA.
Robert A
RA
Rubinstein
Department of Public Health, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA.
Dessa
D
Bergen-Cico
Street Addiction Institute Inc., New York, NY, USA.|Trauma Response Team, Syracuse, NY, USA.
Arnett
A
Haygood-El
Trauma Response Team, Syracuse, NY, USA.|Syracuse City Common Council, Syracuse, NY, USA.|Mothers Against Gun Violence, Syracuse, NY, USA.
Helen
H
Hudson
Department of Anthropology, Maxwell School of Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA.
Shaundel
S
Sanchez
Syracuse Police Department, Syracuse, NY, USA.
Frank L
FL
Fowler
D006708:Homicide / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D009518:New York / Q000453:epidemiology; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D014754:Violence / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000639:trends
Community intervention; Gang violence; Neighborhood violence; Trauma