Prisma Health Richland Hospital Trauma Center was recently awarded critical grant funding from the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). Richland’s trauma center will receive $2,000,000 to support a proposed initiative called “Addressing Social Determinants of Health and Community Violence Through a Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program” based in Columbia, South Carolina. The grant award will fund the initiative until September 30, 2026. The grant is part of a DOJ program awarding more than 3,700 grants nationwide to support community safety.
The funding will support development and implementation of a hospital-based violence intervention pro
gram (HVIP) at Prisma Health Richland Hospital’s American College of Surgeons (ACS) verified Level 1 Trauma Center in Columbia, South Carolina, in collaboration with community partners. A community advisory group will play a key role in planning and developing the program.
The primary goals of the innovative program are:
- Reduce community violence and the rate of repeated violent criminal behaviors.
– Address individual risk and protective factors for violence and
Utilize and contribute research related to the program and its impact.
The HVIP will serve high-risk teens and young adults living in underserved,
marginalized, and high-crime areas of the Midlands treated at the trauma center for a violence-related injury (gunshot wound, stabbing, or assault). HVIPs are an evidence-based strategy that utilizes credible, trusted messengers to provide intensive case management and wraparound services to patients with violence-related injuries.
The grant team in Columbia is comprised of Prisma Health trauma, internal medicine, psychiatry, and injury prevention specialists in partnership with University of South Carolina (USC) researchers specializing in psychology, public health, criminology and criminal justice.
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