Supporting Male Survivors of Violence: Keys to Collaboration Between Hospital-based Violence Intervention and Cure Violence Programs

Anne Marks (Youth ALIVE!), Lori Toscano (Cure Violence), Matan Zeimer (Cure Violence)

This brief outlines the potential for collaboration between HVIPs and Cure Violence model programs that offer street outreach and violence interruption. Many of the sites in our network of hospital-based violence intervention programs operate in the same community as, or actively partner with, street outreach and violence interruption programs following the Cure Violence model. While there are differences between the two models, they are compatible. In fact, they are complementary, reinforcing and, we believe, each an essential component of any community’s comprehensive violence prevention strategy. Yet, even when program models are compatible in theory, personalities and organizations are not always compatible in reality.