Operating with Hope

Dr. Victor Garcia is a man obsessed. You might say he is a man obsessed with putting himself out of business. The Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center surgeon was tired of operating on young people riddled with bullets. When Children’s experienced a 300 percent increase in gunshot wounds, he began to research how to attack the problem at its source.

Using the Boston Gun Project as a model, Garcia and other community leaders formed the Cincinnati Initiative to Reduce Violence in 2007. Multiple community and law enforcement agencies are working together to spread its message to the young men who are known violent offenders affiliated with street groups: the violence must stop.

Download the pdf at left to read the story originally published in our 2007 Annual Report to the Community.