Emancipate NC’s Kerwin Pittman was appointed to the first-ever Violence Advisory Board by the North Carolina Department of Public Safety as a violence prevention leader alongside 24 other leaders. The board has been created to bring together a variety of different people and organizations that work on violence prevention across North Carolina, including law enforcement, public health, social services, and other violence reduction and firearm misuse programs in NC.
The board will be approaching violence prevention from a public health/root cause mindset to stop violence across North Carolina. Kerwin said, ‘As someone who has life experiences on both ends, I’m honored to be a part of the solution to help end violence across the state of North Carolina.’
The group had its first Advisory Board Meeting on December 13th, 2023. Click here to check out the agenda from that meeting and stay tuned for updates to come this year.