PICH 18/19 Learning Seminar July 2019
Thanks Hannah Zhu for these notes from our final seminar of the academic year: Red Thread – integrated care with youth workers, ED, police, social care We need to take a public health approach to youth violence! Youth workers going to emergency departments to work with young people aged 10-24 who are victims of violence. Youth Violence is: – Prevalent: 300,000 ED admissions caused by violence every year – Expensive – Contagious – Damaging – Unequal: associated with poverty – Treatable: evidence shows violence can…