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Director of Halo urges council to support evidence-based hospital intervention to reduce violence
Summary
Joshua Jones, director of Halo, told the council hospital-based violence intervention and coordinated community strategies have produced large declines in homicides in other cities and asked Mobile officials to invest in capacity building and an ecosystem approach; he invited council to a lunch-and-learn and March youth event.
Joshua Jones, director of Halo, Mobile's hospital-based violence intervention program, addressed the City Council on Feb. 24 to press for evidence-based strategies and investments to reduce violence.
Jones described research from the National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform and trends in several large U.S. cities that showed declines in homicide after…
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