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A new effort to improve the well-being of West Baltimore residents has been launched with the support of the BUILD Health Challenge, which recently awarded a $75,000 planning grant to Healing Together Collaborative: Preventing Youth Violence in Upton/Druid Heights (HTC).
Key partners in HTC are the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center’s Violence Prevention Program at the University of Maryland Medical Center and the Promise Heights initiative, which is led by the University of Maryland School of Social Work (SSW).
These programs are collaborating with the Druid Heights Community Development Corp. (DHCDC), which is the lead recipient, and with the Baltimore City Health Department (BCHD) and other partners. The collaboration began after The Baltimore Sun in December published “Collateral Damage,” a prize-winning series showing the impact of violence on children and how the SSW works to lessen the harm…
