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On Sunday, Alonni Barkfield only six years-old was shot and later died. We’re told that the Omaha Police Department is still investigating the incident. Here at UNMC, there is a program that focuses on limiting these tragedies.
“We enroll victims of assaults, stabbings, and firearm violence. We really focus on that interpersonal violence who are admitted to our trauma center,” said Ashley Raposo-Hadly, with UNMC Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program.
The Nebraska Collaborative for Violence Intervention and Prevention is a collaboration between UNMC and UNO that aims to reduce gun violence and support victims of violent injury. The program works with victims to address social disparities and risk factors. Also providing free cable locks to those in the program that ask for it.
“Unintentional and intentional firearm injuries are completely preventable, we don’t have to see them and so if you are in possession of a gun, just to think about what you could be doing to reduce that harm in your life,” said said Ashley Raposo-Hadly.