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PA Man Turns Past Trauma Into Passion for 'Healing Hurt People'
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.
Temple Alum Kai Davis is Philly’s New Poet Laureate
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.
Eagles Award $290,250 to Local Organizations Through Social Justice Fund
The Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice has been selected once more as a grant recipient of the Eagles Social Justice Fund.
Podcast: Community Trauma Interventions with Arturo Zinny
On episode 4 of Obscured's limited podcast series, From Words to Weapons, Arturo Zinny, LPC, MA, PhD (c), 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.

Recent News

Q+A: Can Addressing Childhood Trauma Help Prevent PTSD Among Violence Victims?
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.
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.
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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