CT MIRROR: Cash payments to crime victims? Some say it helps

The team working at Yale New Haven Health's Hospital Violence Intervention Program. Pictured from top to bottom are Pepe Vega, Jim Dodington, Marcie Gawel, Elaine Couvertier and Erin Latham. Credit: Courtesy of Jim Dodington

CT Mirror

June 11, 2026

Could a payment of $500 change someone’s life? 

Researchers at Yale are preparing to publish two papers looking at the outcomes of a program offering one-time cash to victims of community violence and intimate partner violence in and around New Haven. 

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