Recently, Buncombe County’s Community-based Public Health Response to Violence (CPrV) Coalition hosted the first multi-sector stakeholder meeting within the community.
Staff from Buncombe County’s Justice Services Department is working with multiple local nonprofit organizations to launch the community-based public health response to violence with the goal of seeing a reduction in all forms of violence within our communities. Partner organizations include My Daddy Taught Me That, The SPARC Foundation, Youth Transformed for Life, The Racial Justice Coalition, Umoja Health Wellness and Justice Collective, Land of the Sky GO Places, Operation Gateway, and Life Over Violence Every Day (LOVE).
Community Leaders and Partners
Leaders from community organizations have been meeting over the past few months to build the core of the coalition to ensure the focus of the group was to bring healing and support where it is needed. Members of the community, law enforcement, health and human services agencies, schools, housing, medical professionals, and justice system stakeholders gathered for the coalition’s kick-off at which Abdul Hafeedh bin Abdullah, Co-Founder of CHASM (Community Healing through Activism and Strategic Mobilization), shared information about the coalition and the importance of community involvement.
He reiterated the significance of striving to work together by aligning efforts that can lead to seeing a reduction in violence as well as addressing the root causes of violence, understanding that all violence is connected. He further emphasized the need to have leadership at all levels present in each engagement, and he encouraged those attending to commit to collaborating and strengthening the work already being done inside of Buncombe County.
The core components of a community-based public health response to violence include training community…
Read the full article here
