Redefining Violence Prevention: Healing, Workforce, and Design as Public Safety
Violence is not simply an individual act—it is the result of systems that exclude, disinvest, and retraumatize. Prevention, then, must go beyond policing and punitive responses. It must be rooted in healing, opportunity, and the radical act of listening.
My work lives at the intersection of violence prevention, trauma-informed design, workforce development, and public safety strategy. From city blocks to hospital rooms to community coalitions, I’ve seen how disconnected efforts fail—and how integrated, community-centered innovation can shift outcomes and restore lives.
A New Framework for Prevention:
Trauma-Informed Environmental Design (CPTED + Healing)
I’ve examined traditional CPTED models and pushed them beyond lighting and surveillance. True safety must be co-designed by the people who live there. My approach centers community voice and post-traumatic growth, making the built environment a place of healing—not control.
Workforce Development as Violence Disruption
Economic disconnection is a form of violence. I believe workforce engagement—when done with trauma awareness, wraparound support, and youth voice at the center—is a powerful tool for both prevention and reentry. We don’t just build resumes. We build futures.
Anti-Extractive Youth Engagement
Tokenizing youth voice is violence dressed in collaboration. I advocate for compensated, trauma-informed youth co-design models that honor lived expertise as leadership. A table with youth and no budget is not equity—it’s performance.
Hospital-Based Career Coaching Integration
I’ve explored integrating career coaching into hospital-based violence intervention programs, reframing the "golden hour" of recovery as a launch point for stability, skill-building, and long-term transformation.
We cannot continue to silo public safety, economic mobility, and mental health. We must treat violence prevention as a whole-system intervention—one rooted in agency, love, and justice.
Because prevention isn’t about fixing people. It’s about fixing the conditions that harm them.