Existing Employee Resource Groups can work to address gun violence with their members ERGs may already be working to address other issues intricately linked to gun violence, such as mental health and domestic violence. HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH DOMESTIC COMMUNITY SAFETY VIOLENCE DEVELOPMENT Companies have a Companies have made Companies are Gun violence responsibility to provide public commitments to recognizing their disproportionately impacts safe working environments support their employees’ responsibility to support lower-income communities. for their employees – mental health. Nearly 2/3 employees experiencing Businesses support something they cannot of gun deaths are domestic violence. In an community development reasonably guarantee suicides. average month, 53 through their foundations, given the current state of American women are volunteer hours, and other gun violence in the US. shot to death by an community engagement intimate partner, and the efforts. risk of death is 5x greater when a gun is present.
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