WHAT IS DLIVE? - VIOLENCE INTERVENTION AND PREVENTION

DLIVE is a Hospital-based, Community-focused Violence Intervention Initiative.

DLIVE is currently based out of Detroit Medical Center – Sinai Grace Hospital with the Wayne State University Department of Emergency Medicine.

The medical literature shows that once someone is injured as a result of interpersonal violence, they are at increased risk for repeat injury and death. Detroit Life Is Valuable Everyday (DLIVE) was borne out of the recognition that violence is a pervasive cyclical disease process that continues to be a major public health crisis in the city.

DLIVE is therefore a hospital-based violence intervention initiative that exists to holistically work with youth/young adults who have sustained acute intentional violent trauma to achieve very specific goals.

Eradicate the future morbidity and mortality predicted by the initial injury

Prevent retaliatory violence

Prevent the future incarceration often associated with individuals who have been victims of traumatic violence

Actively facilitate a pathway towards success and prosperity

Active community engagement

Reduce the Community Toxic Stress associated with community violence

Let us be encouraged to shift the paradigm on how violently injured patients are treated!

How DLIVE Works - A CONSCIENTIOUS & ACTIVE EFFORT

AN OPPORTUNITY FOR CHANGE

DLIVE reaches young adults in the hospital after an acute trauma injury, engaging them in the hospital at the bedside during a time known as the “teachable moment”.

This golden hour opportunity is often the perfect time for appropriate transformative intervention to occur. If the circumstances of their injury and lifestyle suggest susceptibility to future injury, they are given the opportunity to participate in DLIVE.

Highly trained Violence Intervention Specialists are the uniquely qualified transformative agents that provide the crucial crisis intervention, trust-building, engagement, mentorship and linkage between the hospital and Detroit community support.

This manifests itself into a vital VIS-Participant partnership so that a customized therapeutic plan for transformation can be collaboratively developed. Therefore, instead of discharging a patient from the hospital back into the community the same way they came in, the aftercare of our trauma patients involves an evidence-based strategy for success.

– participants work intensely with VIS for 6-12 months typically

– utilize the existing resources and support of the Detroit community

– address areas ranging from traumatic stress disorder to education/employment to legal advocacy and more

– Trauma Peer Groups are held monthly as a space for participants to gather, share, exchange, and learn

DLIVE works to identify those with the highest likelihood of having repeat injury