Louisville's office for Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods works to make the city free of violence for all people.

After Monday's mass shooting at Old National Bank, the offices working to curb gun violence and provide support directly to those who need it.

The primary role of our office is to bring it convener.

For the last several years, we bring in organizations across the city from different disciplines to gather, to look at solutions about violence, how to work with victims of violence, how to intervene with drivers of violence, how to work with communities and mobilize communities.

So we have a vast network of partners within within Louisville that we work with every single day.

And that's, you know, across the medical field, across the faith based field, across, you know, law enforcement and other agencies, community based organizations.

So it's a natural fit for us.

When a tragedy strikes that we have the ability to call all of our partners together and figure out collectively how can we do this together to address the, you know, the needs that Louisville has right now at this time.

You never prepare for a tragedy that occurred the other day.

You know, you can you can train for that.

You can have policies until it actually happens.

You know, there's not much you can do to ready yourself for that except be trained.

But what we have learned through our office every day as we address gun violence in our city and the impact of gun violence every single day, we're looking at how do we provide counseling services to our general community and how they heal during this process.

And then we're also available and have been available to provide similar support services to the first responder agencies that are on the front lines dealing with this incident.

I think the primary thing for us to focus on right now is, you know, is the healing right.

If we're asking people to come together and work together, we've got to make sure that they're capable of doing that and that their needs are being met.

Right.

People are impacted by gun violence in different ways in our city, Right.

Either directly or indirectly.

If I live in a community and I'm exposed to gun violence every day, but I'm not a direct victim, that's going to have an impact on me.

Right.

We have to learn to trust each other, that we're all working together to the same, you know, goal is to reduce violence, to make Louisville safer city for everybody.

Is gun violence, you know, present in Louisville.

Yes.

But is Louisville a very safe city?

Yes.

Right.

You learn to understand that.

And, you know, you have to live your life to the best you can and not be afraid.

But always be prepared.

Always be prepared.

One thing that we know about Louisville is, is that we are one community.

We are brothers and sisters here.

We're about 1% degree separation, not three degree separation.

Everyone in Louisville knows each other, you know, are familiar with each other.

And it's a good place to be in, a safe place to be.

Talon says his office addresses gun violence in four different ways by intervening among those causing violence, building trauma, resilient communities, promoting violence reduction solutions, and actively supporting healthy youth development in Louisville.