News

2023
- The Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice Supports Transparent Conversations About the Trauma Caused by Displacement of Philadelphia Residents as a Result of Continued Gentrification and Overdevelopment
  
  March 28, 2023
  
  CNSJ supports the residents of the UC Townhomes in their fight to preserve their homes.
  
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2022
- Q+A: Can Addressing Childhood Trauma Help Prevent PTSD Among Violence Victims?
  
  August 15, 2022
  
  As many communities across the country struggle with rising violence, a team of researchers from the Dornsife School of Public Health took a unique approach to better understand the experiences of victims of urban violence.
  
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2020
- The Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice and Healing Hurt People Firmly Stand Against the Police Violence Which Took the Life of Walter Wallace Jr.
  
  November 02, 2020
  We call on the leaders of the city and community to come together to address acts of lethal violence imposed upon the Black community in Philadelphia.
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- Op-Ed: Beyond Physical Wounds, Healing Black Male Trauma
  
  August 30, 2020
  
  John A. Rich, MD, MPH, wrote an op-ed column as part of his selection as one of USA Today's "Leaders of Change."
  
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- Healing the Hurt
  
  February 14, 2020
  
  John A. Rich, MD, MPH, spoke with Madeline Drexler, editor of Harvard Public Health magazine, about what he has learned in the decade since publishing a pathbreaking book on trauma in the lives of young black men.
  
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- Jose Ferran Jr. Has One Way to Heal Trauma: Cleaning and Greening Hunting Park
  
  January 09, 2020
  
  After a traumatic experience, Jose Ferran Jr. fights tirelessly to make Hunting Park cleaner and greener, as well as healthier and kinder. His guiding principle: sustainability and mental health interventions are more connected than you might think.
  
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2019
- Helping Young Black Men Move Past Histories of Trauma and Violence
  
  April 30, 2019
  
  John Rich was invited to give the Yerby lecture at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. Each year the lecture brings minority scientists and scholars to speak on important health topics.
  
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2017
- Drexel’s Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice Receives ‘Empowering’ Grant
  
  November 13, 2017
  
  The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded a grant to the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice that will expand offerings and resources in Healing Hurt People.
  
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- Drexel’s Healing Hurt People Receives National Award for Innovation in Aiding Crime Victims
  
  April 12, 2017
  
  Drexel’s Healing Hurt People received an award from the National Office for Victims of Crime on April 7 for its work toward making victims of violent crime less likely to be injured again.
  
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2016
- Election Reflections – Through a Public Health Lens
  
  December 19, 2016
  
  On December 1, students and faculty from Drexel and other area universities gathered to reflect on implications and impact of the presidential election for the practice of public health. Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD, MPH, Dean of the Dornsife School of Public Health, moderated the discussion – charging a panel of faculty and students from the school to analyze what the election outcome may mean for the field and what the public health community should be thinking about and doing together.
  
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- Drexel Professor to Discuss Effects of Constant Trauma on Young Men of Color
  
  December 08, 2016
  
  As a part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s “Forward Promise” webinar series, Drexel University’s John Rich, MD,a professor of Health Management and Policy in the Dornsife School of Public Health and director of the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice, will discuss a disturbing trend in how many people perceive violence experienced by boys and young men of color: That the victims are at fault.
  
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- Intergenerational Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Food Insecurity
  
  May 12, 2016
  
  New research from Drexel University’s Center for Hunger-Free Communities has added evidence on the relationship between food insecurity and adverse child experiences (ACEs).
  
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2015
- Drexel Program Helping Violence Victims to Expand Across Philadelphia Hospitals
  
  February 19, 2015
  
  In Philadelphia, Healing Hurt People, a Drexel trauma-informed, hospital-based violence intervention program is expanding at a city-wide level to widen the opportunity of preventing future injuries as a result of violence instead of just treating them.
  
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- Hospitals Helping Violence Victims Could Save Millions
  
  January 26, 2015
  
  Drexel researchers have published the first study to systematically look at the economic outcomes of programs that help victims of violence change their lives with a hospital-based intervention.
  
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