In a small conference room at Detroit Medical Center’s Sinai Grace Hospital, violence intervention specialist Ray Winans asks a roomful of young African Americans if they know anyone who has been killed by gunshots.
They all raise their hands, including Winans and his partner, Calvin Evans. They’ve also lost friends, family members.
“Five… six… seven,” says one, trying to remember.
The young men are participants in the fledgling program D.L.I.V.E., pronounced D-Live—like “Live from New York!”—which stands for Detroit Life is Valuable Every Day.
These men are survivors of violence, usually from gunshots, treated for their wounds in Sinai Grace’s emergency room.
Some have been to jail; others expect prison to be in their future. But they’re all working to change their lives with support from the D.L.I.V.E. program.
[For more of this story, written by Bill Kubota, go to https://www.citylab.com/cityfi...troit-hed-tk/523299/]
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