Get Healthy Philly’s Injury Prevention Program works to create a safe environment for all Philadelphia residents. Our program currently focuses on reducing and preventing gun violence.  Future efforts will expand to address motor vehicle collisions and pedestrian injuries, and alcohol-related injuries and deaths. We work to:

• Support an evidence-based approach to violence reduction.
• Promote the safe storage of firearms, especially around children and youth.
• Promote opportunities for youth that minimize exposure to violence and promote safety.
• Partner with community leaders, law enforcement, and academic institutions to study what works in reducing gun violence.
• Monitor and study injuries throughout the city to modify prevention efforts with real-time information.
• Monitor and study the factors that contribute to violence and injury.

We also work closely with the Mayor’s Office to implement the recommendations of The Philadelphia Roadmap for Safer Communities, a five-year plan to fight gun violence in Philadelphia.

You can watch videos outlining policies that have potential to reduce violence:

• Firearm preemption and gun violence
• Permit to purchase: A policy that save lives

Many other organizations work to understand and prevent gun violence.  Among them, we particularly benefit from the experience and expertise of:

• Everytown for Gun Safety
• Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence
• Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research
• The Trace: Reporting on Guns and Gun Violence in America

Learn more about gun control policies in Philadelphia.