Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic and The Lincoln Center for Family and Youth have announced a new collaboration to implement the pioneering Violence Intervention and Prevention Program, funded by a $2.5 million grant from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency.

The program launched this month at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in Darby, and will expand to Nazareth Hospital in Philadelphia and St. Mary Medical Center in Langhorne in the coming weeks.

The VIPP aims to tackle the critical issues of gun and group violence plaguing our region by providing much-needed resources to those affected by violence, reducing traumatic stress and future violence involvement and creating safer communities by breaking the cycle of violence.

The data-driven approach, backed by compelling evidence, will help target the program effectively, making a transformative impact in the lives of those affected by violence. 

“We should treat violence as a communicable disease,” says Greg Casey, DO, an emergency medicine physician at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital and medical director of the VIPP. “Through the Violence Intervention and Prevention Program, our goal is to make our communities safer places to live, work and enjoy life.”

Learn more at Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic.

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