PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Thomas K Duncan AU - Ronald Stewart AU - Kimberly Joseph AU - Deborah A Kuhls AU - Tracey Dechert AU - Sharven Taghavi AU - Stephanie Bonne AU - Kazuhide Matsushima TI - American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Prevention Committee review: Family Justice Centers—a not-so-novel, but unknown gem AID - 10.1136/tsaco-2021-000725 DP - 2021 Jun 01 TA - Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open PG - e000725 VI - 6 IP - 1 4099 - http://tsaco.bmj.com/content/6/1/e000725.short 4100 - http://tsaco.bmj.com/content/6/1/e000725.full SO - Trauma Surg Acute Care Open2021 Jun 01; 6 AB - The American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma requires that trauma centers demonstrate adequate financial support for an injury prevention program as part of the verification process. With the ongoing challenges that arise with important social determinants of health, trauma centers have the important task of navigating a patient through the complex process of obtaining services and tools for success. This summary from the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Prevention Committee focuses on a model that has been present for several years, but has not been brought to full awareness in the trauma world. It highlights the importance of the Family Justice Center concept that brings a multitude of organizations under one roof, thus eliminating the hurdles encompassed by trauma patients, seeking life-changing resources necessary to mitigate the impact of both community violence exposure and intimate partner/domestic violence. It discusses the potential benefits of a partnership between trauma centers and Family Justice Centers and similar models. Finally, it also raises awareness of important programmatic evaluation research required in the arena of injury prevention targeting a population whose outcomes are difficult to measure.