Saving Our Cities: Sacramento program designed to help crime victims recover

REPORTS OF ANY DAMAGE OR ANY INJUESRI. WELL ALL MONTH LONG. WE’VE BEEN BRINGING YOU STORIES FEATURING COMMUNITY MEMBERSHO W ARE DEDICATING THEMSELVES TO REDUCING CRIME AND VIOLENCE. IT’S ALL PART OF OUR PROJECT COMMUNITY ITINIATIVE SAVING OUR CITIES AND TODAY KCRA3’S JASON MARKS HAS THE STORY OF ONE PROGRAM DEDICATED TO HELPING VICTIMS HURT BY CRIME. IT’S GIVING YOU ROLLED MOSEY MCCONNELL SUFFERED A LICONNELL SUFFERED A FE-CHANGING EXPERIENCE. THIS TRAUMA WILL NEVER LEAVE MY ENTIRE LIFE KHAN WAS JUST LEAVING WORK AT THE MELOT 6 ON JABOOM STREET. SHE STARTED HER CAR BUT STEEDPP OUT FOR A SECOND WNHE A STRANGER JUMPED IN PERSON. JUST STOLE MY CAR. HE BACKED UP ANDE H HIT ME WITH MY OWN CAR KHAN WAS PINDNE BETWEEN HER CAR AND ANOTHER. THIEF THEN PEELED AWAY IT JUST HIT MY LEG. I WAS IN PAIN I WAS ON THE FLOOR. THAT’S ALL. I REMEMBER THE BONE IN HER LEG LEFT SNAPPED IN HALF WHEN I LOOKED AT MY LEG. ITAS W LIKE ON A DIFFERENT POSITION. IT WAS NOT EVEN STRAIGHT SURGERIES FOLLOWED BY MONTHS OF REHAB HAVE HELPED THE PHYSICAL TRAUMA, BUT IT’S THE TRAUMA. YOU CAN’T SEE THAT STILL REMAINS. SOMETIMES I JUST GO LIKE IT HAPPENS FOR A REASON BY WHY THIS REASON THAT’S WHERE THE TEAM AT THE UC DAVIS HEALTH WRAP AROUND PROGRAM CAME IN THEY SPECIALIZE IN HELPING VICTIMS RECOVER. WE REALLYET A S GAME PLAN AND PLAY SO THAT MAKE SURE THAT THEY VEHA THAT THEY WANT TO REACH AND WE CAN MAKE SURE WE CAN MONITOR TH OSE GOALS WRAPAROUND HELPS VICTIMS FROM SHOOTINGS STABBINGS IN ASSAULTS AGES 13 TO 22. STAFF FOCUSES IN ON HELPING THE VICTIMS GET CONNECTED WITH SERVICES. THEY NEED WE WANT TO GET THEM CKBA ON TIRHE FEET PHYSICALLY MENTALLY EMOTIONALLY SPIRITUALLY AS WELL. SOMETIMES THERE, YOU KNOW, THEY’RE WORRIED. THEY’RE WORRIED WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE OUTSIDE THE HOSPITAL WHEN THEY GO HOME. SOMETIMES THEY MAY NOT WANT TO GO HOME BECAUSE THAT MAY BEE W HAVE WHERE THE INJURY WERE OCCUR. SOMETIMES WE CAN HELP THEIR VIENRONMENT TO WHERE MAYBE THEY CAN GET OUT OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD THEY WEREAY MBE THEY CAN GET A NEW JOB THAT HELPS TMHE FINANCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY ARISE TO A DIFFERENT OCCIOASN. THE GOAL IS TO MAKE THE COMMUNITY BETTER. IT'’ PERSONAL FOR SPECIALISTSPJO MEMBER EVER SINCE I LEFT THE LIFESTYLE BEHIND I’VE BNEE GIVEN BACK TO MY COMMUNITIES JOHNSON ALONG WITH COWORKER AND NARISHA HARRIS ADMIT THEIR VERY BUSY TOO NYMA VICTIMS OF SENSELESS VIOLENCE. IT CAN DEFINITELY BE UP TO THREE OR FOUR A NIGHT EVEN DEFINITELY UNFORTUNATYEL FAR TOO OENFT THE SAME CAN BE SAID FOR TRAUMA SURGEON IAN BROWN WHO KNOWS HOW IMPORTTAN IT IS FOR PATIENTS TO GET CARE ONCE THEY LEAVE THE HOSPITAL. WEAN C PATCH UP THE HOLES, BUT WE PUT PATIENTS OUT TO THE SAME SITUATIONS THAT LED TO THEIR INITIAL INJURY IN THE FIRST PLACE. YOU CAN LOOK AT VIOLENCE THE SAME WAY IF YOU DON’T CHANGE THE CONDITIONS THAT SORT OF CONTRIBUTED TO THE VIOLENCE AND THE CHANCE YOU COMING BACK WITH SIMILAR INJURIES EXTREMELY HIGH. THAT’S WHY WRAP AROUND STAFF WORKS SO HARD WE’RE ALL DOING OUR PART AND TRYING TO HELP THIS COMMUNITY. FOR PEOPLE LIKE KHAN WHO THIS THANKSGIVING HAS SOMETHINGO T SHARE AT DINNER. I’M THANKFUL FOR THE PROGRAMO T BEING THERE. YES, I WOULD I NEVER KNEW THIS PRO THIS KIND OF PROGRAM DO EXIST. AND I’M REALLY THANKFUL. IT DOES IN SACRAMENTO. JASON MARKS CASE. YOU’RE A3 NEWS. NOW THIS WRAPAROUND PROGRAM CURRENTLY SUPPORTS CRIME VICTIMS THAT ARE ADMITTED INTO UC DAVIS HOSPITAL. THERE ARE SEVERAL SIMILAR PROGRAMS AND THE OTHER HOSPITALS AS WELL IF YOU WTAN MORE INFORMATION ON THE WRAP AROUND PROGRAM AND TO SEE OTHER OTHER SAVING OUR CITY STORIES YOU

In most cases, whenever there is a crime, there is a victim left behind. A program at UC Davis Health focuses on helping those injured by violence recover.“It was hella scary,” Mauzima Khan said. “You just have all the fear.”Last Thanksgiving, the 22-year-old suffered a life-changing experience.“This trauma will never leave my entire life,” Khan said.Khan was just leaving work at the Motel 6 on Jibboom Street. She started her car but stepped out for a second. That’s when a stranger jumped in. “The person stole my car,” she said. “He backed up and he hit me with my own car.”Khan was pinned between her car and another. The thief then pulled away. The car was found several days later in Arizona.“It just hit my leg,” Khan said. “I was in pain and I was on the floor. That’s all I remember.”The bone in her leg was snapped in half. Surgeries were followed by months of rehab. They have helped heal the physical trauma, but it’s trauma that can’t be seen that still remains.“I guess it happened for a reason, but why this reason?” Khan said.That’s where the team with the UC Davis Health Wraparound Program came in. They specialize in helping victims of crime recover.“We really set a game plan in path so they can make sure they have goals they want to reach we make sure we can monitor those goals,” specialist Chevist Johson said.The Wraparound Program helps Sacramento victims of shootings, stabbings and assaults ages 13-26 who are admitted to the UC Davis hospital. Staff focuses on helping the victims get connected with the services they need.“We want to get them back on their feet physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually as well,” Johnson said.“Sometimes they are worried what it looks like outside the hospital,” mental health therapist Nerisha Harris said. “Sometimes they may night want to go home because that is where the injury occurred.”The goal is to better the community. It’s personal for Johnson who once was a gang member.“Ever since I left the lifestyle behind I’ve been giving back to my communities,” Johnson said.“We can patch up the holes, but we release patients out to the same situations that led to their injuries in the first place,” trauma surgeon Dr. Ian Brown said.While the Wraparound Program only caters to UC Davis Health patients, there are several similar programs in other area hospitals. This story was produced as part of Project CommUNITY: Saving Our Cities. The series airs on KCRA 3 and online Monday through Friday the entire month of May each night during the 6 p.m. News. We're focusing on those working to make our communities safer and help our youth thrive, especially in neighborhoods facing social and economic disparities.Here are more stories from the Saving Our Cities series: 'Trying to build healthy neighborhoods': Sacramento police Chief Kathy Lester talks about 'Saving Our Cities'Mother, father start scholarship in honor of son killed in shootingSacramento nonprofit teaches young girls self-love through artThe reality of crime. Is it headed up or down

In most cases, whenever there is a crime, there is a victim left behind. A program at UC Davis Health focuses on helping those injured by violence recover.

“It was hella scary,” Mauzima Khan said. “You just have all the fear.”

Last Thanksgiving, the 22-year-old suffered a life-changing experience.

“This trauma will never leave my entire life,” Khan said.

Khan was just leaving work at the Motel 6 on Jibboom Street. She started her car but stepped out for a second. That’s when a stranger jumped in.

“The person stole my car,” she said. “He backed up and he hit me with my own car.”

Khan was pinned between her car and another. The thief then pulled away. The car was found several days later in Arizona.

“It just hit my leg,” Khan said. “I was in pain and I was on the floor. That’s all I remember.”

The bone in her leg was snapped in half. Surgeries were followed by months of rehab. They have helped heal the physical trauma, but it’s trauma that can’t be seen that still remains.

“I guess it happened for a reason, but why this reason?” Khan said.

That’s where the team with the UC Davis Health Wraparound Program came in. They specialize in helping victims of crime recover.

“We really set a game plan in path so they can make sure they have goals they want to reach we make sure we can monitor those goals,” specialist Chevist Johson said.

The Wraparound Program helps Sacramento victims of shootings, stabbings and assaults ages 13-26 who are admitted to the UC Davis hospital. Staff focuses on helping the victims get connected with the services they need.

“We want to get them back on their feet physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually as well,” Johnson said.

“Sometimes they are worried what it looks like outside the hospital,” mental health therapist Nerisha Harris said. “Sometimes they may night want to go home because that is where the injury occurred.”

The goal is to better the community. It’s personal for Johnson who once was a gang member.

“Ever since I left the lifestyle behind I’ve been giving back to my communities,” Johnson said.

“We can patch up the holes, but we release patients out to the same situations that led to their injuries in the first place,” trauma surgeon Dr. Ian Brown said.

While the Wraparound Program only caters to UC Davis Health patients, there are several similar programs in other area hospitals.

This story was produced as part of Project CommUNITY: Saving Our Cities. The series airs on KCRA 3 and online Monday through Friday the entire month of May each night during the 6 p.m. News. We're focusing on those working to make our communities safer and help our youth thrive, especially in neighborhoods facing social and economic disparities.

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