The Baltimore City Health Department has won a $500,000 grant that it will use to create a violence intervention program at hospitals.
The first program will be set up at Johns Hopkins Hospital and will use hospital responders to reduce violence-related injury re-admissions by resolving conflicts immediately. It extends the city's Safe Streets program.
The award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention was announced during the city Healthy Baltimore 2020 conference Thursday.
Twitter.com/ankwalker