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Community groups urge Essex County to fund and formalize violence-intervention supports
Summary
Nonprofit leaders and survivors described community-based violence-intervention programs and grief-support services, presented program output data and asked commissioners to help sustain funding, referrals and formal partnerships.
Several community-based organizations told Essex County commissioners that local, trauma-informed programs are reducing violence and need sustained funding and formal referral pathways.
Marielle Hufnagel, chief operating officer of the Hub Arts and Trauma Center, and CEO Alteric Best described the Hub’s 2024 activities: more than 4,500 incident responses, over 600 mediations/de-escalations, roughly 500 unduplicated youth served,…
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