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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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Wednesday, July 09, 2025
Date:July 9th
Time:5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location:City Hall rotunda, 200 E. Wells Street
Don't miss this unique opportunity to engage with various city departments as they present and discuss their proposed budgets for 2026. Walk around, ask questions, and discover how the city plans to allocate resources to serve our community effectively. Let's make our voices heard and shape the future of Milwaukee...
Thursday, July 10, 2025
Date:July 10th
Time:12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location:Two locations: Northcott Neighborhood House, 2460 N. 6th St. and Garden Homes Park, 2600 W Atkinson Ave.
Attendees can expect to meet with employers and career specialists from employment service agencies representing Milwaukee’s leading employment sectors including manufacturing, office, healthcare, retail, transportation/logistics and much more.
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