WEEKLY UPDATE: 12/19/24
For its quarterly meeting on Wednesday, December 18, the Connecticut Hospital Violence Intervention Program (CT HVIP) Collaborative convened at the Connecticut Hospital Association (CHA) in Wallingford.
The forum featured updates on the collaborative’s progress over the past year, including an update on the enactment of new state and federal actions impacting community violence intervention and prevention (CVI), the work of Connecticut’s Department of Public Health (DPH) Commission on Community Violence Intervention and Prevention, and a report on the status and implementation of Medicaid reimbursement for services provided by certified Violence Prevention Professionals (VPPs).
Representatives from hospitals and health systems across the state were among the nearly 60 participants.
Several public officials participated in the meeting. DPH Commissioner Manisha Juthani provided an update on community violence prevention initiatives. State Representative Jillian Gilchrest and State Senator Saud Anwar presented a lookahead for the upcoming 2025 Legislative Session. State Senators Martha Marx and Paul Cicarella, Hartford Mayor Arunan Arulampalan, and Michael Fallon, outreach director for U.S. Senator Chris Murphy, also attended.
HVIP is a specific, evidence-based, violence intervention methodology that involves partnerships between hospitals and frontline and community agencies. Beginning at the point of injury, victims are offered wrap-around services and support, including case management, to reduce the risk of re-injury or becoming an offender themselves. The CT HVIP Collaborative was formed just before the pandemic in December 2019. Its founding goal was to create a common table for agencies and stakeholders engaged in HVIP work to collaborate, fight for resources, and inform, as well as the specific legislative goal of expanding Medicaid in Connecticut to cover VPPs.
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