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The Milwaukee Promise initiative is a multifaceted city effort to address systemic poverty, joblessness, poor health, crime and low educational achievement in city neighborhoods.
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Thursday, April 24, 2025
Date:April 24th
Time:8:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Location:BMO Tower (Floors 2 & 11), 790 N. Water Street
Join the City of Milwaukee for a chance to connect your business to potential contracting opportunities with local government at the upcoming City of Milwaukee Vendor Fair. Come learn about the City’s Bid Submittal Process, Small Business Certification, and Contracting Opportunities. You don’t want to miss this event.
Why take a Public Health Approach to Violence?
Each year, millions of individuals, families, and communities bear the physical, mental, and economic costs of violence. As a leading cause of injury, disability, and premature death, this issue compromises health and safety. Merely witnessing violent incidents can result in psychological disorders, such as depression, anxiety, and stress. Violence discourages economic development in troubled areas, thereby affecting the accessibility of jobs, healthy food, and safe housing. The physical wellbeing of residents, who stay indoors to avoid violent behavior in their community, can exacerbate health problems.
Fortunately, violence is a learned behavior and is preventable.
The public health approach uses a four-pronged framework to investigate, understand, and address violence by:
- Defining the nature and scope of the violence problem through data collection
- Researching why violence occurs, who it affects, risk and protective factors, and other influences that can be impacted through intervention strategies
- Designing, implementing, and evaluating violence prevention strategies
- Ensuring widespread adoption of evidence-based practices on an individual, family, community, and societal level