AG Maura Healey, Mayor Martin J. Walsh, Doctor Kevin Tabb, Reverend Dr. Ray Hammond and local community and faith leaders will join homicide trauma survivors at the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute’s 25th anniversary press conference where Peace Institute leadership will announce a new national campaign to support individuals affected by homicide.
DORCHESTER, MA – When a life is cut short by homicide there is a ripple effect that touches, and often shatters, countless lives. Following the tragic death of youth activist Louis D. Brown by a stray bullet in 1992, his friends and family started the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute and embarked on a 25-year crusade to provide comfort, assistance, and mental health services to people affected by homicide trauma in the City of Boston. In its 25 years of service, the Peace Institute has received international praise for its approach to homicide trauma and for its efforts to help end the cycle of violence that too often ensues when a homicide occurs.
On Thursday, May 2, 2019, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, Doctor Kevin Tabb, community and faith leaders and homicide trauma survivors will join the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute to celebrate the Peace Institute’s 25th anniversary as they announce a new national campaign to bring attention to the issue of homicide trauma and help other communities develop programs to address this important and often ignored issue.
Details on the event are as follows:
WHAT: Louis D. Brown Peace Institute National Campaign Announcement
and 25th Anniversary Press Conference
WHEN: Thursday, May 2nd, 2019, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
WHERE: Louis D. Brown Peace Institute, 15 Christopher Street, Dorchester, MA 02122
WHO: Attorney General Maura Healey, Mayor Martin J. Walsh, Doctor Kevin Tabb, Chaplain Clementina M. Chery, President and CEO of The Peace Institute, Reverend Dr. Ray Hammond, homicide trauma survivors, and community and faith leaders.
RSVP: The event is OPEN PRESS. If you would like to arrange one on one interviews with Louis D. Brown Peace Institute leadership, please contact Patrick Shearns 617-890-9164| Patrick@617mediagroup.com
About The Louis D. Brown Peace Institute
The Louis D. Brown Peace Institute is a center of healing, teaching, and learning for families and communities impacted by murder, trauma, grief and loss. The vision of the Peace Institute is to create and sustain communities where all people are valued and all families can live in peace. In its 25 years, the Peace Institute has shifted the way in which the Boston community responds to homicide and the families impacted by it. Through its renowned Mother’s Day Walk for Peace, providers-survivors network meetings, and other long-term healing programs, the Peace Institute has affected how Boston’s municipal and social leadership, law enforcement, the medical community, community members, and allies understand and treat the survivors of homicide victims. The Peace Institute’s hopeful message and unique methods of caring for trauma-impacted individuals called Survivors have spread throughout New England, the United States and even the Caribbean with its “Best Practices” curriculum – an empathy-based training used to equip individuals with the emotional, social and financial tools to support the survivors of homicide victims.
For more information about the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute and its work to support those affected by homicide trauma, please visit http://www.ldbpeaceinstitute.org/.