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Scott Charles
Community Health Leaders
2008
Area(s) of Expertise:
Violence Prevention
Leader's Biography 2008:
SCOTT CHARLES, Trauma Outreach Coordinator, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
Scott Charles leads the “Cradle to Grave” program, an intervention program he developed to prevent violence among inner city teens at one of Philadelphia’s busiest trauma centers. He takes the student participants, ages 12 to 18, through a reenactment of the final day of a 16-year-old multiple gunshot victim – from the moment he arrives at the trauma center to when his body is taken to the morgue. The goal: to see the real-life impact of getting shot – not just the media images on TV and in movies. Charles also intervenes directly with gunshot patients while they are in the hospital since they have a one in seven chance of getting shot again. The program is a model for other trauma centers since it works to heal patients physically and spiritually.
Where this Leader can be reached today:
Trauma Outreach Coordinator
Temple University Hospital
3401 North Broad St.
Philadelphia, PA 19140-5103
Phone: 215-868-4658
Fax: 215-707-0609
E-mail: scott.charles@tuhs.temple.edu
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