New Haven violence seen as public health crisisster

New Haven violence seen as public health crisis- The New Haven Register - Serving New Haven, Connecticut
NEW HAVEN — It takes a neighborhood to raise a child—and if the neighborhood doesn’t do it, then the violent city streets will.

That’s the impetus behind the creation of a health improvement area, which recently was passed by the Board of Aldermen.

Alderwoman Tyisha Walker, D-23, told her fellow aldermen that in 2011 the neighborhood association came together to try to find a way to combat violence in the community, and acknowledged that the issue “was larger than just violence, it was a public health crisis.” They want to “be the starting point to break the school-to-prison pipeline,” Walker said.

The newly formed health improvement zone hopes to get to the root of those issues, and will start with adults who run the zone getting to know all of the children in the neighborhood between ages 3 and 12.

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