Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo, N.Y., has received $496,959 from the Justice Department's Office of Justice Programs to support its hospital-based violence response program, Buffalo Rising Against Violence at ECMC, or BRAVE.
The funds are being allocated through the Office of Justice Program's Office for Victims of Crime and will go toward bolstering a partnership project between the BRAVE program and the state's community based violence program, SNUG, according to an Oct. 13 news release from the medical center.
The project will create a liaison between the two programs, train medical staff in best practices when approaching care for victims of violence and improve documentation. It also will include a collaboration between Erie County Medical Center and Oishei Children's Hospital, also in Buffalo, with support from the University of Buffalo School of Social Work.