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Andrew Woods
Senior Advisor, Communities of Practice

Andrew Woods, MSW, VPP serves as a senior advisor for communities of practice at the HAVI. In 2004, Mr. Woods established the Hartford Care Response Team (HCRT), a Connecticut-based hospital-linked violence intervention program (HVIP). In recent years, the HCRT partnered with physicians and skilled nurses to provide in-home wound care for shooting victims released from area hospitals, while coordinating their out-patient care with behavioral health and primary care physicians. In 2019, the HCRT became the first Connecticut HVIP to secure Victims of Crime Act funds and under his leadership, Connecticut enacted legislation authorizing Medicaid to reimburse trained and certified Violence Prevention Professionals. A former chair of the 2021 Connecticut General Assembly’s Gun Violence Intervention and Prevention Advisory Committee, Mr. Woods now co-chairs the Partnership, Programs, Stakeholders and Community Engagement Subcommittee of the Connecticut Commission on Community Gun Violence Intervention and Prevention.