One if those efforts is Christiana's You Only Live Once(YOLO), the education program that middle schoolers to the Newark hospital one day last month.
At the heart of the program is Brandon Lee Brinkley, a young man who was planning to become a barber when he was shot multiple times Dec. 6, 2008, three days after his 25th birthdays. He died at Christiana. You Only Live Once is his story. Hospital staffers have made it their story, as well. "I don't want to have to tell anyone's parent or grandparent or brother or sister that you're never coming home," Amy Whalen, Christiana's emergency department assistant nurse manager, told the George Read students. "I do this", she said, "because I don't to have to do this anymore." Health experts long ago declared violence in general and gun violence in particular to be among the nation's most pressing public-health crises, advocating that it be addressed like a disease to be eradicated, not an inevitability of life.
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In pockets all around Wilmington, gun violence routinely finds children where they live and play, leaving some to struggle with the aftereffects of trauma. This report, the first in a three-part investigation, looks at the ways in which chronic violence has become a part of children's everyday lives. The series was produced in conjunction with the USC/Annenberg School of Communication, which awarded a 2011 National Health Journalism Fellowship to reporter Kathy Canavan.
When Courtney White goes on sleepovers, she totes the blanket that a funeral home gave her to commemorate her big brother, who was shot to death. The eight-grader says she didn't feel out of place when 25-year-old Brandon Brinkley became Wilmington's 24th homicide of 2008. After all, at least 20 of her friends have lost a family member to violence. Christiana Care Health System
Published 11:29 p.m. ET Nov. 1, 2015 Christiana Care and community partners help youth to understand ways to avoid violence and its terrible consequences. This story is produced and presented by our sponsor. As coordinator of Violence Outreach, Intervention & Community Engagement for Christiana Care Health System, Chaz Molins, MSW, LCSW, was right where he wanted to be on the evening of Oct. 7, standing before a group of boys and young men in the downstairs teen center of the Clarence Fraim Boys & Girls Club in Wilmington. The Wilmington Police Department’s Cold Case Unit is asking for the assistance of the public in connection to the 2008 murder of Brandon Brinkley.
On December 6, 2008 at 3:38 a.m., police responded to the 2700 block of Northeast Boulevard regarding a shots fired complaint. Officers located 25-year-old Brandon Brinkley, who had been shot and later succumbed to his injuries. This investigation remains ongoing, and investigators are asking the public for assistance. Anyone with information about this investigation, or any other cold case, is encouraged to contact the WPD Cold Case Unit:
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