This webinar will focus on the Sunnybrook Health Science Centre’s Breaking the Cycle of Violence with Empathy (BRAVE) program. BRAVE is a hospital response to address the increased cases of violent injury to young people in Toronto.
The program aims to reduce risk factors and increase protective factors for violence by promoting positive alternatives to violence to reduce retaliation, criminal involvement and re-injury among youth injured by violence. BRAVE uses a public health approach to violence prevention, recognizing the modifiable risk factors, including the social determinants of health and systemic racism. This presentation will introduce the concept of HVIPs, describe how BRAVE operates today and the impact of the program since it began in 2020.
Presenter: Brandy Tanenbaum
Brandy is a certified Risk Manager and works as the injury Prevention Coordinator in the Tory Trauma Program at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Ontario. She shares a passion with her colleagues for driving community health by reducing the risk and severity of traumatic injury. Brandy has a degree in kinesiology and health sciences and a master’s degree in public health. You can often find her exploring the intersections of injury with the social determinants of health, advocating for progressive prevention programming, and contributing to research that aims to understand how we can do this work better together.
Presented November 21, 2024.
