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The HVIP+ Community Model: A Community Violence Prevention Program in a Southern State
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Ms. Joyce M. Raynor is a Principal Investigator for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences project “The HVIP+ Community Model: A Community Violence Prevention Program in a Southern State.” She is a member of the Steering Committee and Community Engagement workgroup and is responsible for the overall coordination and supervision of community aspects of the study.
Joyce M. Raynor is the founder and executive director of the Center for Healing Hearts and Spirits (CHHS). CHHS provides direct victim services to individuals affected by homicides, sexual assault, human trafficking, domestic and family violence in 25 counties across Arkansas.
Along with handling all organizational management, fiscal accountability, programming, program implementation, and oversight for CHHS, she is trained to empower desperately affected populations in Arkansas on topics such as domestic violence, child abuse, sexual assault prevention, and Black on Black crime prevention. She also manages multiple health related programs in diverse communities (i.e., chronic illness prevention programs, tobacco cessation programs) and is responsible for related research and program evaluation. She has over 25 years of experience developing and implementing program goals and working with a wide range of local community-based organizations.
Through her experience as a surviving mother of gun homicide, she has dedicated efforts to helping other community members heal from such trauma. She has worked with researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences on community advisory boards for community-based participatory research and has served as a community partner for two violence prevention research projects. CHHS serves as a service referral partner for Arkansas’ first HVIP called Project Heal. Her team helps connect Project Heal participants to victim and social services.
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