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Whereas 15 to 20 percent of college women report experi-
encing rape or attempted rape during their college ca-
reers, and over 50 percent report experiencing some form 
of unwanted sexual contact; 
Whereas racial and ethnic minority women, transgender and 
gender nonconforming college students, and students 
with disabilities are at higher risk or report higher levels 
of assault and harassment; 
Whereas 34 percent of college students who experience sexual 
assault drop out of college; 
Whereas nearly 700,000 children experience abuse annually 
in the United States, with approximately 65 percent of 
cases involving sexual abuse and 21 percent involving 
physical abuse; 
Whereas people with severe mental illnesses are 11 times 
more likely to be victims of violent crime than the general 
population; 
Whereas exposure to violence can cause significant psycho-
logical trauma for individuals and communities; 
Whereas a large majority of adults in the United States expe-
rience stress associated with mass shootings, and a third 
of United States adults say that fear of mass shootings 
stops them from going to certain places and events; 
Whereas traumatic experiences, especially adverse childhood 
experiences, can have lasting negative health implications 
for individuals, including higher rates of mental health 
conditions and substance use; 
Whereas a total of 68,286 public school children were subject 
to corporal punishment in the 2017 to 2018 school year, 
with Black students and students with disabilities dis-
proportionately being corporally punished; 
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Whereas corporal punishment in schools is ineffective, inter-
feres with learning, and causes injury and trauma; 
Whereas cognitive behavioral therapy, especially when focused 
on trauma specifically, has shown promising results help-
ing individuals heal from exposure to violence; 
Whereas communities require the resources necessary to 
properly heal and recover from the trauma caused by vio-
lence; 
Whereas unchecked rises in violence create a vicious cycle 
that entrenches the conditions that cause violence; 
Whereas nonviolent, evidence-based, community-based solu-
tions to violence prevention and intervention can effec-
tively promote public safety, with methods including but 
not limited to— 
(1) violence intervention and prevention programs 
that help deescalate violent situations and work to pre-
vent situations from becoming violent in the first place; 
(2) hospital-based violence prevention programs that 
provide wraparound services to victims to help mitigate 
the risk of reinjury or retaliatory violence; 
(3) group violence intervention that uses partner-
ships between community leaders, social service providers, 
and law enforcement to identify high-risk individuals and 
work with them to avoid violent outcomes; 
(4) trauma-informed cognitive behavioral therapy; 
and 
(5) replacing exclusionary, punitive discipline prac-
tices in schools, which perpetuate the school-to-prison 
pipeline, with positive, restorative, nonadversarial alter-
natives; 
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Whereas a spike in gun violence has widespread negative eco-
nomic implications for a community, including declining 
business formation, fewer available jobs, plummeting 
property values, lower home ownership rates, and declin-
ing average credit scores; 
Whereas the rise in violence represents a preventable public 
health crisis that can be combated by sending resources 
to local communities to address the underlying causes of 
violence, including but not limited to poverty, housing in-
security, food insecurity, education, and limited access to 
mental health care; and 
Whereas the aftermath of gun violence costs communities 
$280,000,000,000 annually, which could otherwise be 
used to provide resources and services that address the 
root causes of violence: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) expresses support for the designation of 
‘‘National Day of Healing’’; 
(2) calls on the people of the United States and 
interested groups to commemorate and demonstrate 
solidarity with families and communities who have 
lost family and community members to violence to 
raise awareness about the moral imperative to elimi-
nate community violence of all kinds; 
(3) recognizes that the rise of community vio-
lence is a public health crisis that demands a public 
health response; and 
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(4) acknowledges that the Federal Government 
has a responsibility to execute this public health re-
sponse across a holistic spectrum of healing, and 
this response should include trauma-informed mental 
health care and counseling, school- and campus- 
based mental health services, hospital-based violence 
screening and intervention, violence interruption, 
conflict mediation, restorative measures for conflict 
resolution, community outreach, other evidence- 
based, community-led interventions, and targeted re-
search to bring to scale and enhance effectiveness of 
interventions. 
Æ 
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