Interpersonal violence continues to be a problem in the United States, most prominent in the inner-city minority young @entity1 population. The medical approach of "treat 'em and street 'em" philosophy has led to foregoing the psychosocial needs of injured young @entity1 . This study describes a program to link young @entity1 who are victims of interpersonal violence to a healthcare system and a social service agency in an effort to meet their psychosocial needs. An unvalidated screening tool was developed by a team consisting of an EP, social worker, and public health scientist to determine the young victims' psychosocial needs. @entity1 aged 10 to 24 years who were victims of interpersonal violence (excluding @entity1 abuse, sexual assault, and domestic violence) were randomly assigned in the study. The control group was given a list of services and the treatment group received an assessment, case management, and referral to appropriate resources. The study site was a community, teaching level 1 @entity130 center. The study was approved by the institutional review board. Numbers of referrals in both groups were counted and compared using SPSS (version 10, Chicago, IL). One hundred eighty-eight victims of interpersonal violence were enrolled. A total of 82.5% were male, 65.4% were African American and 31.4% were Hispanic. At the end of 6 months, 78 of the 96 young @entity1 (81.3%) in the treatment group made one or more contacts with their case manager and made use of social service, healthcare, and other referrals. Education (21.6%), job readiness (19.1%), and mental health (11.9%) were the most frequently used services. Nine of the 92 (9.8%) in the control group used services; most of these referrals were for social services (7 of 9 respondents) and the others were healthcare-related. The difference in utilization of services between the treatment and the control groups were found to be significant different (95% confidence interval, 1.41-1.55, significance =.00), and there was a strong positive correlation of using services and case management (Pearson coefficient = 0.728, significance =.00). The referral of young victims of violence from the @entity2613 to psychosocial services could be successful using a case management model and an alliance between a healthcare system and a social service agency.

Violence prevention in the @entity2613 : linkage of the XXXX to a social service agency.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['Patients', 'child', 'persons'] @entity2613 :: ('MESH:C536181', 'Disease') :: ['ED'] @entity130 :: ('MESH:D014947', 'Disease') :: ['trauma']
@entity2613 :: (MESH:C536181,Disease) :: ['ED']
