Promoting Health, Nonviolence, and Social Justice
What We Do
The Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice (CNSJ) at Drexel University's Dornsife School of Public Health promotes health equity and a racially just world through healing-centered interventions to survivors of violence, training for community health worker peers as a pipeline to sustaining careers, and through research and advocacy.
In their own words
These videos are just a representation of all the Digital Stories completed during the continued collaboration between Healing Hurt People and the Center for Digital Storytelling. It is our hope that by telling their own stories, in their own words and way, Healing Hurt People clients can find an easier path to healing.
Every year
1.5 Million
People are treated in the ER for violent injury
75%
of them develop PTSD
I thought the only place I could be safe was the hospital. Today I stay safe by being around people who support me and my future ... I participate in the Healing Hurt People Program as a client and an intern.
— Jermaine McCorey
About the Center
Arturo Zinny, LPC, MA
Executive Director, Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice, and Assistant Clinical Professor of Community Health and Prevention at the Dornsife School of Public Health
Our ultimate goal is to inspire hope and healing in young people to prevent future violence and trauma, while transforming health and public health systems toward trauma-informed, healing-centered, equitable, and racially just practices.
CNSJ was founded in 2008 with initial support from the Thomas Scattergood Foundation with the goal to change the conversation about violence away from a criminal justice perspective and toward a trauma-informed public health perspective.
