📝 Thank you to everyone who joined our Senior Associate @erinstern.bsky.social at#GMHSummit2025 this week! 💬 Let’s keep the conversation on the critical links between mental health, intimate partner violence, and child maltreatment going! #UnderutilisedStrategies @gmhsummit.bsky.social

Parental mental health isn't just an individual issue—it's a structural one, deeply tied to patriarchal norms, power, & violence. Join this #MenEngageCoLab featuring @erinstern.bsky.social to explore how to end family violence. 📅 24 November ⏰ 3:00 PM CET 🔗 https://bit.ly/24NovCoLab

At the opening plenary of the Global Mental Health Summit in Cape Town, Dr. Lenny Naido (Manager of Specialized Health for the City in the Western Cape) noted that one of the deepest causes of poor mental health in the city is violence including community level violence and domestic violence.

As part of What Works to Prevent VAWG Ending Violence against Women and Children Help Desk I found it very eye opening albeit harrowing to co-write (with Erika Fraser) a rapid evidence review on orphan trafficking and how it increases the risk of abuse and exploitation of children.

✨Exciting news! 🎓Applications are open for this year’s cohort of our facilitated course, Programming for Prevention: A Practical Approach to Design & Implementation. 🔗Apply by 27 July https://cutt.ly/zrRtWgQ5 #ProgrammingWell

Join our new course and learn from experts Gemma Ferguson, @bini2025.bsky.social and @erinstern.bsky.social, to strengthen your capacity to prevent violence in the family using effective SBC strategies.       Apply before 31st May! 👉🏾 https://cutt.ly/QrktjjlP

Interested in how evidence based strategies from the mental health and alcohol fields can inform and strengthen IPV prevention curricula? Check out this new report that synthesizes discussions about such opportunities with 15 alcohol use and mental health experts.

#HapenningTomorrow!  Join the #CollaborativeQ&A right here on Bluesky with @erinstern.bsky.social✍️ Share your questions and reflections on how to integrate violence prevention strategies in parenting programmes!

📝 How can you join? 📅 Tuesday, 25th February Prepare your questions and send them to us to engage with @erinstern.bsky.social during the live chat. Use the hashtag #CollaborativeQ&A on Bluesky to stay connected with the conversation.

Why should mothers’ mental health and the use of violence against their children be understood through the wider lens of gender inequalities? Read our latest evidence review to find out: cutt.ly/ve5reg8g

🚨 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐭!🚨 Common mental health problems among parents and caregivers can affect how they treat children. This review reveals how poor mental health in caregivers influences VAC—and how prevention efforts can make a difference. 👉 cutt.ly/ve5reg8g