🌍 Calling #PreventionPractitioners!  Our free, hybrid Violence Prevention Academy is open for applications!  🗓️ Apply by 31 January to connect, learn, and grow with peers and experts: https://prevent.short.gy/VPA

A few weeks ago I had the privilege to collaborate with the amazing Lindsay Stark, Ilana Seff, Chen Reiss, and Julianne Deitch to highlight the impact of the US funding cuts on the field of violence against women and children.

📉US funding cuts threaten progress on ending VAW/C. 👉In The Lancet, Lindsay Stark, Chen Reis, Ilana Seff, Ruti Levtov (Prevention Collaborative), & Julianne Deitch outline the effects & urge governments to reinvest: https://cutt.ly/jrUJfiRp #ProgrammingWell @chenr.bsky.social  @rlevtov.bsky.social

🫵 Have you registered for our upcoming webinar on #edutainment as an emerging #preventionstrategy? Together with RAES and Soul City, we will: 📌 Share findings from a new evidence review  📌 Reflect on lessons from real-world programmes 🔗 Register now: https://cutt.ly/9rWvx96N

❌ Fiction! Edutainment is much more than just entertainment. It uses stories to shift attitudes, improve knowledge, and encourage positive behaviour. Evidence shows it can even reduce violence and change harmful norms when done well. Learn more 🔗 cutt.ly/Irb7FOsZ

❌ Fiction! Edutainment is much more than just entertainment. It uses stories to shift attitudes, improve knowledge, and encourage positive behaviour. Evidence shows it can even reduce violence and change harmful norms when done well. Learn more 🔗 cutt.ly/Irb7FOsZ

✅ FACT! Option1 Pairing #Edutainment with direct community engagement — like listener/viewer groups, facilitated discussions, call-in radio shows, or community mobilisation — shows how others may be shifting opinions and behaviours, enhancing its overall impact.🤝 Learn more 🔗 cutt.ly/Irb7FOsZ

#CollaborativeQ&A This is an interesting new review on the particular value of group based programmes to strengthen parental and caregiver mental health: cutt.ly/ZreZbizg

📍 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐨𝐰! Do you have questions from our recent #EvidenceReview on “Improving the #MentalHealth of Parents and Caregivers as a Strategy to Prevent Family Violence”? @erinstern.bsky.social is live on Bluesky now to answer all your questions.

Our latest evidence review by @erinstern.bsky.social  considers the intersections of IPV and child maltreatment, including how mothers’ use of violence against their children needs to be understood within the context of their experiences of IPV.  Read more ➡️https://cutt.ly/ve5reg8g