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UCSF Trauma Recovery Center - "A Haven from Trauma’s Cruel Grip"
San Francisco Wraparound Project at ZSFG
June 16, 2017
The New York Times reports on the UCSF Trauma Recovery Center (TRC), a multidisciplinary team of mental health professionals that helps trauma victims "surmount the psychic hurdle between 'victim' and 'survivor'. For survivors of violent injury, the psychological effects often outlast the physical damage. Mental...
Stabbings and Gunshot Wounds as a Public Health Problem
San Francisco Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
January 27, 2016
SF Wraparound Director, Dr. Rochelle Dicker provides insight into the growth of hospital intervention programs for patients who are injured as a result of violence. The following Washington Post article reports that patients with gunshot or stab wounds are more likely to be re-injured, especially if their...
Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Held for Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center
UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
November 23, 2015
The San Francisco General Hospital Foundation announced on Yahoo Finance/Marketwired "its public-private partnership to ensure high quality health care for all San Franciscans, a milestone marked with the dedication and ribbon cutting at the Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and...
"Turning Over a New Leaf" - Youth Grow Trees and Themselves
San Francisco Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
January 06, 2015
Dan Flanagan, Executive Director of Friends of the Urban Forest (FUF), writing in the December, 2014 issue, of "Tree Scapes", the organization's newsletter, talks about the recent successes of Junior and Orlando, young survivors of violence who came to FUF by way of the San Francisco Wraparound Project: Meet...
Rochelle Dicker Receives Jefferson Award for Work in Turning Young Offenders Away From Violence
San Francisco Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
April 28, 2014
KPIX 5 (CBS/San Francisco) honored Rochelle Dicker, M.D. , a trauma surgeon at SFGH, with its Jefferson Award for her work in stemming the epidemic of violent injuries at San Francisco General Hospital through the San Francisco Wraparound Project which she is Director of: San Francisco General Hospital said a...
Rochelle Dicker Receives Heroes & Hearts Award at Annual Event
San Francisco Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
February 14, 2013
Dr. Rochelle Dicker was honored at the annual Heroes & Hearts event held by the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation. The honor was bestoyed in recognition of Dr. Dicker's exceptional and inspirational work on behalf of patients and the community. Heroes & Hearts began in 2006 and brings the Bay Area...
Victims of Gun Violence Find Lifeline at San Francisco Hospital
San Francisco Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
February 13, 2013
NBC Latino reports on the work of San Francisco General Hospital’s violence-intervention program, The San Francisco Wraparound Project: Javier Antezana is one of the first people to approach a patient’s bedside when doctors rush a gunshot victim to the emergency room but he’s no surgeon. As a case manager for the...
Young Gunshot Victims Often Experience Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
San Francisco Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
April 30, 2011
KPIX 5 (Oakland KCBS) reports on the prevalence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among young gunshot victims, a phenomenon typically linked to soldiers of war: After Emergency Room doctors patch up a young gunshot victim, the patient is given time to recover from the physical wound. While time may heal...
SF Wraparound Project Plays Key Role in Defusing Gang Violence
San Francisco Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
April 05, 2011
Missionlocal.org reports on a story entitled "The Gang War That Wasn’t" in which representatives of the San Francisco Wraparound Project played a critical role in averting violence after angry members of rival gangs converged on SFGH's Emergency Room. Did the Mission avert a gang war? At a community meeting last...
Rochelle Dicker Honored with Chancellor's Award for Public Service
San Francisco Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
March 24, 2010
Dr. Rochelle Dicker received the 2010 Chancellor's Award for Public Service in the faculty/academic category. The award was recognition of her work as Director and Founder of the Wraparound Project for Comprehensive Rehabilitation, an outstanding violence prevention program that has developed a new approach to the...
Wraparound Case Managers Praised
San Francisco Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
September 05, 2008
A note written to the Director of Wraparound concerning Case Managers by social worker, Amy Furr: "I am one of the night shift ED social workers and I had to take a minute this morning to tell you how amazing Javier and Ricardo were last night. As I am sure you heard, or will hear, there were two shootings last...
Shooting and Stabbings Increased in Past Five Years
San Francisco Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
February 23, 2008
The San Francisco Examiner reports on the increase in violence from gunshot or stab wounds in patients admitted to SFGH: The number of victims with gunshot or stab wounds admitted to San Francisco General Hospital has climbed over the last five years, with more than 440 patients either shot or knifed in 2007. The...