Integrating Firearm Injury Prevention into Health Care Proceedings of a Joint Workshop of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Northwell Health; and PEACE Initiative (2022) / Chapter Skim
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5 Collaborating with Communities to Improve Health Care System Implementation Success and Destigmatize Gun Violence Prevention
5 Collaborating with Communities to Improve Health Care System Implementation Success and Destigmatize Gun Violence Prevention
Pages 45-52
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Louis and the Bullet Related Injury Clinic, Jake Wiskerchen from Zephyr Wellness, and the Reverend Michael McBride from LIVE FREE USA. THE BULLET RELATED INJURY CLINIC The T is a community of health working to reduce the effects of trauma in the St.
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Its mission is to reduce firearm suicides and other negative incidents associated with firearm ownership through formal education, outreach, and engagement with the mental health and firearms communities, Jake Wiskerchen explained. One influence on this program's work, Wiskerchen said, is the idea that all mental health professionals need to develop their cultural competence by familiarizing themselves with the literature pertaining to firearms, which must extend well beyond the gun violence literature and into the full range of firearm-related matters, prosocial and otherwise (Pirelli et al., 2019)
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He said that almost two-thirds of the 4 million people who have taken the Mental Health America screenings are ages 11–24 years, with women accounting for 73 percent of those who engaged with the screening tool. Walk the Talk America also conducts training courses for mental health practitioners focused on firearms cultural competence.
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He noted that the strategies his organization takes differ depending on whether firearm injuries are the result of group violence, suicide, or intimate partner violence. This is important when these injuries involve people of color, he explained, because there are often unconscious biases that need to be examined by the deliverer in the public health system, either the intervention specialists or the interrupter that participates in these interventions.
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Marian "Emmy" Betz remarked that each of the panelists in some way touched on the importance of cultural competence or cultural humility and the need to be respectful and appropriate if the goal is to engage with people in ways that are meaningful. In that regard, she asked Punch to comment about what that means in terms of language and the words that health care providers, administrators, and programs use.
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Wiskerchen said: We need to keep that in mind and continue to remind ourselves that these individuals who walk through our doors are just that, they are individuals with their own unique experiences, and we need to be humble and curious enough to meet them where they are. Betz then referred to the work that the American College of Surgeons has done with the involvement of surgeons who own guns, recognizing that there is a great deal of diversity within health care regarding firearms.
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McBride replied that there are experts in the community -- faith leaders, violence prevention interrupters, public health interrupters, and others -- who are experts in providing culturally competent care and who he would like to see hospitals engage in ongoing dialogs before a trauma event occurs. The idea, he said, is to widen the circle of expertise beyond the medical sphere and create an ecosystem of expertise that can help guide interactions with those who have experienced trauma.
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