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Cecilio "Pepe" Vega

Cecilio "Pepe" Vega

Cecilio "Pepe" Vega is the inaugural Violence Intervention Outreach Leader of the Hospital-based Violence Intervention Program at Yale New Haven Health, and a two-time gun violence survivor turned violence prevention advocate.

Sep 30, 2026

4:54
Small but mighty.
4:55
Yeah, mighty.
4:56
Yes, I take on the role of outreach.
4:58
So once they have discharged from the hospital, that's when I kick in.
5:03
I locate, I reach out to the victim.
5:06
We also have someone who sees them when they're inside the hospital, but sometimes they're not ready to link with a program and they're not ready to talk about this stuff yet.
5:15
So I reach them when they discharge from the hospital.

31 MINS LATER

35:48
So Pepe, as a last question to you, every time I have a guest on the podcast and they're a survivor, I also ask them personally, should you choose to answer how or what they do outside of their primary role that they feel connected to, if they have their own work, if they have their own somebody wants to support you do you have things you do outside of the hospital in this space um that we could learn about

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