Inside Melbourne trauma unit treating stabbing victims as Victoria‘s knife crime crisis fuels youth violence

The experience helped inspire Victoria’s new $2.5 million hospital-based early intervention pilot, led by the Government’s violence reduction unit in partnership with The Alfred and the National Trauma Research Institute. It aims to seize what Dr Mathew calls the “teachable, reachable moment”…. The pilot, still being established, will connect young patients with social workers, youth workers and people with lived experience, with support extending into housing, education, training and employment. Above: Trauma clinician Joseph Mathew (2nd from right) has played a key role in developing Victoria’s new pilot.