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New Rochester nonprofit MPP360 outlines post-shooting rehab, relief and restoration services
Summary
MPP360 leaders told the Rock Against Gun Violence Coalition that many people survive shootings but lack long-term care; the group outlined a three-phase model (rehab, relief, restoration), requested volunteer clinicians and space, and described collaboration with local trauma centers.
Councilman Willie Lightfoot invited Michael Patterson, CEO of MPP360, and a researcher, Jason, to explain a survivor-focused program that has operated in Rochester for about two years.
Jason, a cultural/medical anthropologist, summarized research on nonfatal shootings and long-term needs, saying someone in the United States "experiences a gunshot wound every 11 minutes," and stressing that most people survive gunshot wounds (about a 4-to-1 ratio of nonfatal shootings to gun homicides, he clarified). Jason told the…
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