Barnabas Healthplex in Belmont section of the Bronx in early August 2021.įor the week ending Aug. (L to R) DANIEL BONILLA, CLINICAL Integration Director for SBH Healthplex Fitness Center, works with his boxing student during BRAG’s boxing program at St. He said youth are less likely to get into trouble if they’re in class with him, and when they leave class, they are hopefully too exhausted to engage in violent activities. He reiterated Caba’s point, saying that gun violence is most prevalent in the Bronx on Thursday and Friday evenings. Barnabas Healthplex Fitness Center, is one of the program’s instructors. “That gives us a huge opportunity to turn them, push them, nudge them in the right direction, and try to keep them there when it’s all said and done,” said Caba.ĭaniel Bonilla, clinical integration director at St. “They’re with us in the evenings on Thursdays and Fridays, the next 12 weeks,” he told the Norwood News. Barnabas Healthplex in Belmont section of the Bronx in early August.Īccording to Caba, the program is designed so that participants meet on Thursdays and Fridays at 6 p.m., because it’s at these times when young people are most likely to get involved with high-risk activities. “It teaches things like discipline and accountability, responsibility, and an overall sense of well-being, mental and physical health.”ĭANIEL BONILLA (right), CLINICAL Integration Director for SBH Healthplex Fitness Center, helps his student wrap his hands and put on his boxing gloves before training at BRAG’s boxing program at St. “It’s really designed for the young people that come into the emergency room of St Barnabas hospital, recover from their injuries, and now it’s time for them to get physically fit and strong again and learn the art of self-defense, which is boxing,” he said. He said it’s just one of B.R.A.G.’s many programs which helps young people stay away from high-risk activities and grew out of B.R.A.G.’s long-time partnership and hospital response program with St. Norwood News spoke to David Caba, senior program director at B.R.A.G., on July 29 about the new initiative. The classes are part of a B.R.A.G., 12-week, pilot program which will end in October. Barnabas Hospital and the Bronx Rises Against Gun Violence (B.R.A.G.). The classes are the latest initiative by St. Barnabas Hospital’s Healthplex in Little Italy on Thursday and Friday evenings for hour-long fitness and boxing classes. Since the second week of July, a group of four young Bronxites have been meeting at St. Barnabas at the hospital’s healthplex in the Belmont section of The Bronx in early August, 2021. Barnabas Healthplex Fitness Center, spars with his boxing student during a boxing class organized by B.R.A.G. (L to R) DANIEL BONILLA, CLINICAL integration director at St.
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