University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences |
The HVIP+ Community Model: A Community Violence Prevention Program in a Southern State
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Darlynton Adegor serves as the Project Manager for Center for Healing Hearts and Spirits on “The HVIP+ Community Model: A Community Violence Prevention Program in a Southern State” project with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. His responsibilities on the project include providing oversight for all community recruitment and intervention study activities, and communication with UAMS team members. He serves on the Communication and Dissemination workgroup.
Darlynton Adegor is the Victim Service Program Manager at the Center for Healing Hearts and Spirits (CHHS). CHHS is a victim services program dedicated to providing assistance to victims and survivors of violent crimes and chronic illnesses in East, South, and Central Arkansas.
Prior to his role as the Program Manager for the Victim Services Program at CHHS, he practiced law in numerous law firms in Nigeria. Darlynton’s expertise includes courtroom advocacy, personal advocacy, community outreach, client safety planning, and extensive experience in direct victim services advocacy. He is particularly passionate about collaborating with organizations to establish more accessible environments for delivering justice to victims of crime. As CHHS is partnered with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) hospital-based violence intervention program, Project Heal, he works closely with referred violent assault injury patients to help get them connected to needed victim and social services.
Darlynton holds a masters degree in public service from the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, a masters degree in criminal justice along with law degrees from Lagos State University and the Nigerian Law School.
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