Introduction
trauma
Community gun violence kills more than 15,000 people in the U.S. each year, [Because high rates of gun violence are associated with negative systemic, community-level policies (i.e., redlining and restrictions post-incarceration) and their resultant social context (e.g., structural racism), we hypothesize that a counteracting positive, systemic community-level approach is required to change the context within which intergenerational cycles of discrimination, trauma, incarceration, and gun violence persist. As such, we apply two complementary, positively-framed theoretical frameworks, (1) collective well-being and (2) assets-based community development, to upend the negative effects of structural racism that has resulted in violence-endemic neighborhoods [Indeed, emerging literature has shown that community-led programs that aim to improve community conditions are associated with better community health and reduced gun violence [Thus, with the overall goal of reducing gun violence at the community-level, we applied the novel, positively-framed, evidence-based framework of collective well-being [Our approach differs from most existing strategies in four major ways: (1) it deviates from individual-level approaches that focus on supporting the victim in isolation or on remediating the perpetrator of gun violence, [
New Haven neighborhood shooting victims per 100,000 in the year of 2020