New York State Assembly Member Emerita Torres awarded NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi’s Stand Up to Violence (SUV) program with funds allocated to strengthen gun violence interruption, prevention, and community engagement services in the Bronx
Over the last nine years, the Bronx community served by SUV has experienced a 58% decline in gunshot wound incidence
Dec 23, 2025
NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi announced today that it has received $25,000 in New York State funding awarded by New York State Assembly Member Emerita Torres (D-Bronx, 85th District) to strengthen its Stand Up to Violence (SUV) program. SUV is one of the public health care system’s five Hospital-based Violence Interruption Programs (HVIP), and seeks to address the gun violence crisis in the Bronx by providing interruption, prevention, and community engagement services to impacted communities. The Bronx has seen how the effects of gun violence has historically impacted the community, with an increase of youth who are impacted by gun-violence, especially youth of color…