CM Aldebol on hospital violence interruption program expansion
Aldebol asks about the violence interruption program at Jacobi. Katz describes the Guns Down, Life Up program expansion to all hospitals including new programs at Bellevue and Woodhull, with no current plans to transfer to OCS but willingness to coordinate.
And I have a question about the violence interruption program.
It's been a phenomenal, successful program.
I've had the opportunity to meet with dedicated staff at the SUV program at Jacoby Hospital.
Are there plans to expand these programs?
You know, protect the funding for these programs.
And is this program going to go under Office of Community Safety?
So guns down, life up, right?
And we're going to continue to expand them.
We've now both expand them at the hospitals, as in the case of Jacoby, but also we're now creating one at Bellevue and one
There's another new one, Woodhall, we did last year.
I'm blocking on.
Maybe South Brooklyn.
I have not heard any intention to take them to a different office of community safety, but we would want to coordinate with them.
I mean, that's what they are, right?
I mean, they're ways of preventing violence using peers and violence prevention specialists.
So, you know, I'm very supportive of working with other people, and that's their tradition anyway.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.