A forum on gun violence as a public health problem affecting children will be held 8:30 a.m. until noon Wednesday, April 9 at the JC Penney Conference Center at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Sponsored by Women’s Voices Raised for Social Justice, in partnership with Vision for Children at Risk, the event is free and open to the public.
Keynote speaker will be James A. Mercy, a consultant in the Division of Violence Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
The forum also will include David M. Jaffe, M.D., medical director of emergency services at St. Louis Children’s Hospital.; Lt. Janice Bockstruck, St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department; Tiffany Anderson, superintendent of the Jennings School District; and Saaid Khojasteh, M.D., medical director of Behavioral Medicine, SSM Health Care.
James Clark, vice president at Better Family Life and coordinator of the Put Down The Pistol campaign, will conduct a conversation with family members who have lost children to gun violence.
Register on-line at safesound.eventbrite.com. For more information, visit www.womensvoicesraised.org.