Day by Day: Examining the lives of Black and Latinx men with firearm acquired disabilities in Newark, NJ and San Francisco, CA.

Objective:
This exploratory study continues to build on the dearth of literature on Black and Latinx men with firearm acquired disabilities due to community violence. Black and Latinx men are disproportionately affected by firearm violence and may have a unique set of needs related to their intersectional identity. With this in mind, there is an urgent need to better understand the experiences of Black and Latinx men whose firearm injuries render them permanently physically disabled, along with the needs and services required to best support them while they are participants in a hospital-based violence intervention program. This study, a mixed-methods explanatory consequential design, explores the unmet needs of the Black and Latinx men with firearm-acquired disabilities in San Francisco, California, and Newark, New Jersey. Our long-term goal is to create a culturally congruent service within HVIPs that addresses survivors' intersectionality, documents the difficulty of living with firearm acquired disability while living in disadvantaged urban communities, highlight and uplift the voices of survivors, and shape violence intervention program efforts in healthcare settings in San Francisco, California, and Newark, New Jersey, which may be applied to other regions throughout the country.

Funded By:
New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center (GVRC)

Project Status:
In progress

Principal Investigator (PI):
Nazsa Baker, PhD

Co-Investigator:
Joanelle Bailey, MD, MPH

Amount Awarded:
$83,177.00