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Violent crime leaves invisible injuries. Philly hospital staffers use their life stories to help heal them

Philadelphia hospitals are adding staffers with life experiences that can help to address emotional, as well as physical, toll of violent crime.

Waltkeem Jenkins, 25, provides therapy and peer support for people who come into St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children after being shot, stabbed or assaulted. “It is traumatizing,” Jenkins said. “I sympathize. Why do kids have to go through that?”
Waltkeem Jenkins, 25, provides therapy and peer support for people who come into St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children after being shot, stabbed or assaulted. “It is traumatizing,” Jenkins said. “I sympathize. Why do kids have to go through that?”Read moreTYGER WILLIAMS / Staff Photographer
    by Jason Laughlin
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