JACKSON, Miss. — She remembers the frantic knocks at the door and the family friend who waited almost hysterical on the other side.
“He was saying my brother [Kam] had been shot. I ran to my father and mother’s room and told them. They both immediately got up, jumped in the car and went to the hospital,” said Rukia Lumumba, the 40-year-old founder of the People’s Advocacy Institute, a community resource and training incubator for social, political and economic development in this capital city of some 170,000.
Lumumba is also in the early stages of implementing a violence interruption program that takes the unique position of treating violence as a public health crisis. The program will use the methods and strategies associated with disease control — detecting and interrupting conflicts, identifying and treating high-risk individuals, changing social norms and using trained community members, health practitioners, social service provider
[For more on this story by Rachel James-Terry, go to https://jjie.org/2019/02/27/co...nterruption-program/]
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