The Role of Extreme Risk Protection Orders in Preventing Gun Violence
Presented by Jen Pauliukonis, MPH and Lisa Geller, MPH
This training will provide an overview of Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs), with a focus on how the law works in Maryland. We aim to provide healthcare providers with the information they need to make informed decisions about whether to use this tool in their clinical practice. While healthcare providers can petition for ERPOs, most have not done so, and most do not even know that this tool exists. Attendees will emerge from this training with a better understanding of ERPOs and how they can help keep their patients safe from gun violence.
Jen:
As Director of Policy and Programming for the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions, Jen leads our state movement building efforts across the country through the Safer States Initiative. She is responsible for helping develop the Center’s policy priorities, strategies, and policy and technical support for state partners. She provides and translates public health research for advocates, stakeholders, and partners to support local efforts throughout the country to reduce gun deaths and injuries. Jen completed her MPH at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health as a Fellow with the Bloomberg American Health Initiative.
Prior to this role, Jen fed her passion at the local level. She co-led Marylanders to Prevent Gun Violence, a small, grassroots advocacy organization dedicated to preventing gun violence in her home state.
Lisa:
Lisa Geller, MPH, is a researcher at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions and the Co-Lead of the Johns Hopkins National ERPO Resource Center. Lisa’s work focuses on research, advocacy, and implementation of evidence-based gun violence prevention policies, including extreme risk protection orders and domestic violence protective orders. Lisa is also a mayoral appointee on the District of Columbia's Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board. Lisa graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in political science. She earned a Master of Public Health (MPH) in health policy and injury and violence prevention from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Cost: LCPCM members - $30 / Non-members - $40 ($5.00 fee for all refunds)
CEUs: 2 (10am to 12pm)
Registration limited to 150!
Registration will end August 7th at 11:59pm
Zoom link will be emailed to those registered approximately 24 hours prior to class.
Class evaluation and CEU certificate link will be sent on the following Monday (August 14, 2023)
