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CeaseFire program at Temple "intervenes to stop the violence"

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Philadelphia Inquirer

A new Temple program called Philadelphia CeaseFire is using a public-health approach to reducing violence among young men. The program identifies young people at risk of being shot and offers them guidance from street-smart "interrupters" who know violence firsthand. CeaseFire approaches "the whole notion of violence being a public-health issue and looks at it as a disease," said Marla Davis Bellamy, the program's director. Amy Goldberg, director of trauma at Temple University Hospital, said the hospital refers young people who have been shot to CeaseFire. "Unfortunately, we do see a number of patients who have suffered violent-crime injuries," Goldberg said. CeaseFire "gives us one additional resource to help them. That's wonderful," she said.