Waltkeem Jenkins, a community health worker for the Healing Hurt People program at the Dornsife School of Public Health’s Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice, was featured in a June 3 WPVI-TV (6-abc) "Philly Proud" segment about Jenkins’ work to provide therapy and peer support to survivors of violence or those impacted by it.
Kai Davis, Enrollment and Administrative Coordinator for the Healing Centered Learning program at the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice, was featured in a Jan. 20 Philadelphia Inquirer article about being named Philadelphia’s poet laureate.
On episode 4 of Obscured's limited podcast series, From Words to Weapons, Arturo Zinny, PhD, MA, LPC, Executive Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice and Assistant Clinical Professor of Community Health and Prevention at the Dornsife School of Public Health, discusses the center's mission and his research on how evidence-based, trauma-informed practices affect the mental health of youth survivors of violence.
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.
