Hospital-based violence intervention programs (HVIP) are critical to interrupting the cycle of
violence. These interventions are considered “complex” in that they have many mechanisms
of change and related outcomes. Few HVIPs clearly identify the underlying mechanisms of
intervention and explicitly link those with key outcomes however, limiting the field's ability to
know what works best and for whom. To develop a program theory of change for these
“complex interventions,” a non-linear, robust methodology that is grounded in the lived …