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Dr. Theodore Corbin receives Stoneleigh Fellowship

Theodore Corbin, MD, MPP, Medical Director of the Healing Hurt People violence intervention program and Co-Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice, has been awarded a three-year fellowship by the Stoneleigh Foundation. To help serve the needs of our country's most vulnerable and underserved children and youth, Stoneleigh Foundation is committed to supporting talented practitioners, researchers, and policymakers through a fellowship program to develop and test new ideas and approaches to improve the well-being and future of young people with the greatest needs. Stoneleigh's overarching goal is to unite the research of the Stoneleigh Fellows with policy change and practice improvement in the areas of child welfare and juvenile justice.

Dr. Corbin's work is concerned with the disproportionate violence and trauma experienced by urban youth--young males of color in particular--and the need to intervene in the lives of these young people to interrupt the cycle of violence and prevent re-injury through trauma-informed care. His fellowship will focus on providing advocacy and leadership within Philadelphia to galvanize support for a trauma-informed public health approach to youth violence and the integration of care across the various systems that serve youth, including child welfare, behavioral health, and juvenile justice. Additionally, Dr. Corbin will work to further establish Healing Hurt People as a hospital-based violence intervention model for all Level 1 trauma centers in Philadelphia.

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