313 - Stopping Gun Violence Before It Starts: How Community-Based Violence Prevention Programs Keep People Safe
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Stopping gun violence requires more than thinking about policies and programs that focus on guns alone. Dr. Shani Buggs, a professor with the Violence Prevention Research Program at UC Davis, talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about how community-based violence prevention programs identify those most at risk of being involved in violence and connect them to services that can help them solve problems and stay safe. They also talk about the evidence for these programs and their growing popularity across the country.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 3, a Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former secretary of Maryland's Health Department. |
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| 0:47.1 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Roggers, the producer of Public Health on Call. |
| 0:50.8 | Today, Dr. Josh Sharfstein speaks to Dr. Shawnee Bugs, assistant professor in the Violence Prevention |
| 0:56.7 | Research Program at the University of California Davis. They discuss programs to reduce violence |
| 1:02.4 | that are based in communities, how they work, why they work, and their future. Let's listen. |
| 1:09.0 | Dr. Bugs, thank you so much for joining me today to talk about community-based |
| 1:13.2 | approaches for addressing gun violence. And I'm going to start with a pretty basic question. |
| 1:19.1 | What are we talking about when we take a community-based approach to address gun violence? |
| 1:23.5 | Sure. And thank you, Josh, for having me on. When many people think about the problem of gun violence, they think often about the gun itself. And they think about gun legislation. And we know that that is a politically difficult issue for legislators to address. Community-based solutions understand that while those legislative |
| 1:46.1 | decisions are really important and access to firearms is really crucial for addressing gun violence, |
| 1:52.6 | community-based solutions really are about working with community members to determine how |
| 2:00.6 | gun violence is reduced in their communities. |
| 2:02.6 | And it involves engaging and employing members from the community to be part of the solution. |
| 2:08.6 | Got it. So instead of thinking about, you know, things like background checks, we're talking about |
| 2:14.6 | what's leading to violence in the first place in a community. |
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