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Turning the Tide Violence Intervention Program (TTVIP)
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Violence is a leading cause of death and injury for youth and young adults in the US and disproportionally impacts vulnerable and minority populations. Physicians know that people who experience violence often need more than medical care to promote recovery and break cycles of violence.
MUSC’s Turning the Tide Violence Intervention Program (TTVIP) provides culturally competent support and wraparound services to patients and families who experience or are at risk of experiencing community violence. TTVIP is modeled after an evidence-based public health approach that recognizes and addresses the complex interpersonal, economic, environmental, and systemic root causes of violence. Turning the Tide is a trauma-informed, patient-centered program that supports patients and their families in the hospital immediately after experiencing injury and/or in the community where they live, work, and play.
TTVIP in Action
Program Goals & Population Served
TTVIP aims to 1) promote holistic recovery after violent injury, 2) improve social determinants of health, and 3) interrupt the cycle of violence. Informed by data and available resources, TTVIP focuses their long-term intervention services on youth and young adults living in the Charleston tri-county area who receive care for violent injuries at MUSC Health – Charleston’s Level 1 adult or pediatric trauma centers, or youth who are at high risk of experiencing violence and referred from MUSC’s Pediatric Primary Care Clinic.
Services Provided
TTVIP’s violence intervention client advocates provide bedside support and intervention while patients are hospitalized, including crisis intervention, liaising with the clinical care team and law enforcement, safety planning, and resource referral. Once discharged, client advocates work alongside patients to create brief or long-term intervention plans, which often include outpatient healthcare navigation, referrals to community-based services and resources to address unmet needs and goals, criminal justice system advocacy, and return to school or work, among others.
In close collaboration with the client advocates, TTVIP’s mental health clinician provides violently injured patients and families immediate bedside and long-term emotional support and therapeutic treatment in both the hospital and community settings to mitigate or treat symptoms of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
TTVIP’s early intervention client advocates provide high-risk youth the same long-term wraparound intervention services as our violently injured patients. The goal of TTVIP’s early intervention program is to prevent youth violence victimization altogether.
Partners
Within MUSC, we collaborate with the MUSC Advocacy Program (MAP), Trauma and Resiliency and Recovery Program (TRRP), National Crime Victims Center (NCVC), and other multidisciplinary providers that care for patients who experience violence and trauma.
Within the community, we collaborate with a variety of organizations and agencies, such as criminal justice victim advocates, school systems and education programs, employment training, arts and recreation activities, food and housing assistance, and substance misuse programs.
Expertise
TTVIP team members have vast professional and lived experience in the field of violence intervention, including nationally published research, advocacy, education, and clinical care leadership. TTVIP is dedicated to advancing the field’s understanding of violence-related injuries, prevention and intervention strategies, and victim support services, to improve the care and outcomes of community members impacted by violence.
TTVIP has been a member program of The Health Alliance for Violence Interventions (HAVI) since 2023. The HAVI is a professional network that supports and connects hospital violence intervention programs to grow and enhance services for victims of violence.
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Meet the Team
Adrianna Bellamy, BSPH
Adult Trauma Injury Prevention Coordinator, Turning the Tide Violence Intervention Program (TTVIP)
Rickey Dennis, M.Div.
Violence Intervention Client Advocate, Turning the Tide Violence Intervention Program (TTVIP)
Shari Eady, LMSW
Mental Health Clinician, Turning the Tide Violence Intervention Program (TTVIP)
Christa Green, MPH
Program Director, Turning the Tide Violence Intervention Program (TTVIP)
Ashley Hink, M.D., MPH
Medical Director, Turning the Tide Violence Intervention Program (TTVIP)
Associate Professor, Acute Care Surgery
Associate Professor, Acute Care Surgery
Claire Jacoby, BA
Research Assistant, Turning the Tide Violence Intervention Program (TTVIP)
Herbert Jenkins, D. Min
Violence Intervention Advocate, Turning the Tide Violence Intervention Program (TTVIP)
Chantelle Mitchell
Violence Intervention Advocate, Turning the Tide Violence Intervention Program (TTVIP)
Kristen Moldenhauer, M.A.
Early Intervention Advocate, Turning the Tide Violence Intervention Program (TTVIP)
Cat Yetman, BS
Violence Intervention Advocate, Turning the Tide Violence Intervention Program (TTVIP)
Clinical Champions
Christian Streck, M.D., FACS
Medical Director, Pediatric Trauma Surgery
Vice Chair, Surgical Education
Division Chief & Professor, Pediatric Surgery
Vice Chair, Surgical Education
Division Chief & Professor, Pediatric Surgery
Christian Streck, M.D., serves as Chief of Pediatric Surgery and a professor of surgery and pediatrics. His clinical interests include minimally invasive surgery for a variety of conditions of the chest, abdomen, and pelvis. His specific interests include cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, pectus excavatum, trauma, appendicitis, and ovarian masses. Dr. Streck's research interests include pediatric trauma and minimally invasive surgery.
Dr. Streck also serves the Department of Surgery as the Vice Chair of Education.. Before assuming the Vice Chair role in 2023, he led the General Surgery Residency Program as Program Director for eight years.
He graduated from Duke University in 1994 with a BS in biology and an AB in history. He received his medical degree from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, completed general surgery residency in Memphis, Tennessee, which included a research fellowship studying children's cancer at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. He then completed pediatric surgery fellowship at LeBonhuer Children's Hospital in Memphis in 2008.
Morsal Tahouni, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, MUSC College of Medicine
Betsy Oddo, M.D., MPH
Director, Pediatric Residency Advocacy Track
Associate Program Director, Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship Program
Assistant Professor, Pediatric Hospital Medicine
Associate Program Director, Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship Program
Assistant Professor, Pediatric Hospital Medicine
Medical School: Wright State University
Residency: University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Fellowship: MUSC
Additional Training: Master of Public Health, MUSC
Dr. Betsy Oddo earned her MD from Wright State University and then completed her residency training in Pediatrics at The University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, TN. She then completed a fellowship in Pediatric Hospital Medicine at The Medical University of South Carolina, during which time she earned her Masters in Public Health. She is now a pediatric hospitalist at MUSC Shawn Jenkin's Children's Hospital, and Associate Program Director of the Pediatric Hospital Medicine fellowship program. Dr. Oddo's academic interests include child health advocacy and gun violence prevention. Her research has focused on the mental health consequences of pediatric firearm injuries and on educating families and pediatric trainees on safe firearm storage.
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