Apr 22, 20221 min

CENTERING SURVIVORS: Honoring Lived Experience in Gun Violence Policy | May 11

Updated: May 2, 2022

ROAR (Rebuild, Overcome, and Rise) Center, in partnership with Survivors Empowered, invites you to attend a free day long event centering survivors of gun violence.

Register here, https://bit.ly/3EGAyc0

Featuring survivor-led policy, planning, and listening sessions, trauma support, guest speakers, networking opportunities, a photography exhibit, and an interactive memorial, the day is designed to offer resources for survivors, make space for their voices to be heard, and support ongoing survivor-led policy and planning work.

Facilitators/Presenters include:

  • James Timpson, Director for Community Partnership and Safety for Roca Maryland and Roca Impact Institute

  • Darlene Cain, President and Founder of Mothers On The Move

  • Rev. Dr. Greta Willis, Director of Liberty Elementary Grief Support Program

  • Erricka Bridgeford, CeaseFire365

  • David Ross, Violence Intervention Case Manager, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center

  • Andrew Knox Muhammad, Founder & CEO, Baltimore Brothers,Organizer, We Our Us

  • Sandy and Lonnie Phillips, founders of Survivors Empowered

  • Chanel A. Branch, Maryland State Delegate (invited)

  • Dr. Daniel Webster, Co-Director of Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions

  • Dr. Joseph Richardson, Jr., Executive Producer and Director of Life After the Gunshot

  • Dr. Kyla Liggett-Creel, Assistant Clinical Professor at the UMB School of Social Work

  • Heather Warnken, Executive Director, Center for Criminal Justice Reform Center

Co-Sponsors: Community Justice and Equity (CJAE) of the University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Social Work, and Center for Criminal Justice Reform of the University of Baltimore School of Law

*$100 stipends, in the form of gift cards, are available for the first 50 survivors to register, who do not get paid to work in this field.

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