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LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Director, Barbara Ferrer and Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell, Second District, will host a community conversation and celebration to discuss collective efforts supported by community leaders and the Office of Violence Prevention’s Trauma Prevention Initiative (TPI), to address violence as a public health challenge.
Additional speakers include Norma García-González, Director of the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation, George Gascón, District Attorney of Los Angeles County, Andrea Welsing, Director of the Office of Violence Prevention, and Community Action for Peace (CAP) Steering Committee Members to describe how CAP and TPI are working to build peace city block by city block, park by park.
Media can RSVP to media@ph.lacounty.gov.
For more information about this event and Public Health Week go to http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/phweek/.
WHEN:
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
3:30 p.m.
WHERE:
Mona Park, 2291 E. 121st St, Compton, CA 90222
WHO:
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Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell, Chair, Second District, Los Angeles County
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Barbara Ferrer, PhD, MPH, MEd, Director, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
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Norma Edith García-González, Director, County of Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation
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George Gascón, District Attorney, County of Los Angeles
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Reginald Johnson, Willowbrook Community Action for Peace Steering Committee Member
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Kevin “Twin” Orange, Westmont West Athens Community Action for Peace Steering Committee Member
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Andrea Welsing, Director, Office of Violence Prevention (OVP)
CONTACT:
Please RSVP for this event: media@ph.lacounty.gov
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
Office of Communications & Public Affairs
www.publichealth.lacounty.gov
(213) 240-8144 – media
media@ph.lacounty.gov
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