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Mural Arts is dedicated to public art that empowers. See what they’re planning, their latest outreach efforts, and opportunities to network and meet neighbors.

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The City of Philadelphia has released a line-up of free or low-cost programs and activities available to children, youth, teens, and families all summer long.

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Mural Arts is dedicated to public art that empowers. See what they’re planning, their latest outreach efforts, and opportunities to network and meet neighbors.

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Kenyatta Johnson brought together elected officials, frontline advocates, grassroots leaders, and criminal justice partners to coordinate urgent strategies for protecting children and teens from gun violence.

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For many seeking a remedy to the emotional pain they have experienced, the key has been access to nature and green spaces.

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Families and crime survivors gathered during a healing vigil to honor their loved ones and rally for solutions to help curb crime.

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This academic study reviews the outcomes they found reviewing Beyond the Bars, a music enrichment program seeking to empower young people and facilitate community.

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Vacant land  in Northeast Philadelphia is being transformed into a community garden by Heroic Gardens, a nonprofit that uses gardening to help veterans find peace and purpose.

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The Training Academy is a nine-week, 165-hour, trauma-informed, mutual learning environment for young adults with lived experience of violence to become Community Health Worker Peers and Certified Peer Specialists.

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The Training Academy is a nine-week, 165-hour, trauma-informed, mutual learning environment for young adults with lived experience of violence to become Community Health Worker Peers and Certified Peer Specialists.

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Sara F. Jacoby spent several years working as a trauma nurse in Philadelphia, where she became interested in how the lived environment and experiences of people influence their ability to recover.

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When Nicole Kenney found out her project won $10,000 in the Well City Challenge, she was literally speechless.

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We set out to find the next John Lewis, that leader who is going to guide us through the chaos of today's civil rights fight.

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Behind the anger of a negative police encounter is often racial trauma. As a doctor, I've learned how important it is to heal that.

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A New Approach to Aiding Black Male Trauma Survivors

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There is research showing that violence can spread, like any other contagion. It resembles public health issues in other ways, too.

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John Rich, MPH ’90, told the audience at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Yerby Diversity Lecture in Public Health, held April 18, 2019 in Kresge G-3, that he chose to begin his talk with David’s story to bring a human face and voice to the gun violence statistics that would follow, and to demonstrate how trauma can become “imprinted under the skin.”

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