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Tackling Gun Violence: CT DPH declares community violence a public health issue
The Connecticut Department of Public Health is creating a brand-new office and hiring employees specifically to address the ongoing crisis of gun violence in Connecticut.
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Tackling Gun Violence: CT DPH declares community violence a public health issue
When you think about public health, you may think about disease, epidemics or smoking. Now in Connecticut, there is another crisis: gun violence. “In Connecticut, we know that unfortunately, we face all forms of gun violence,” Commissioner Manisha Juthani, Connecticut Department of Public Health, said. The Connecticut Department of Public Health has now declared gun violence a public health issue….
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Tackling Gun Violence
It is an issue that touches ever corner of our state: gun violence. Police, state leaders, advocates and community members are all working on solutions. It is a sad and familiar scene in the capital city: flashing lights, police tape at the scene, followed by vigils and grieving families. Here’s how police departments across the state are turning a...
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Tackling Gun Violence: Inside the trauma units of Hartford's biggest hospitals
While violence is down from levels during pandemic-years, first responders still deal with the emotional toll of seeing an influx of gunshot victims
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Tackling Gun Violence: Inside the trauma units of Hartford's biggest hospitals
It is a common scene at trauma centers in Harford: patients rushed in with gunshot wounds. “We’re pulling staff from the emergency room to come in care for that patient, our trauma team responds,” Taylor Fusco-Ruiz, Saint Francis Trauma Program nurse manager, said. It often prompts an all-hands-on-deck response. “At any one time during the resuscitation, there might be...
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Tackling Gun Violence: Parents shift focus to saving lives on anniversary of son's death
Spread a little kindness, and help save a life. That is one family’s mission with the Ethan Song Memorial Blood drive.
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Tackling Gun Violence: Parents shift focus to saving lives on anniversary of son's death
Spread a little kindness, and help save a life. That is one family’s mission with the Ethan Song Memorial Blood drive. “We are holding a memorial blood drive for my son Ethan, who was killed six years ago today,” Kristin Song, of Guilford, said. “We were really heartbroken that we couldn’t donate his organs. This blood’s going to go...
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Tackling Gun Violence: CT woman loses both of her parents to gun violence
Feb. 2 is a painful milestone for Tara Donnelly. It’s that day in 2005 that she lost both of her parents in a shooting. Now, during National Gun Violence Survivors Week, she’s sharing her story.
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Tackling Gun Violence: Hartford police discuss downward trend in recent years
It is an issue that touches every corner of our state: gun violence. Police, state leaders, advocates and community members are all working on solutions. It is a sad and familiar scene in the capital city: flashing lights, police tape at the scene, followed by vigils and grieving families. However in recent years, Hartford started turning a corner. “We actually…
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Tackling Gun Violence: Hartford police discuss downward trend in recent years
Police partially credit firearms recoveries, communication with survivors and arrests of key players for the decease in gun violence.