How creating safe environments prevents violence against children

This seminar unpacks lessons learnt from successful interventions that build safe environments for children.

Date: 2024-07-31

Time: 15:00 to 16:30

Venue: Online via Zoom

Research suggests that projects to create and sustain safe environments can reduce and prevent violence against children. These include interventions in the built environment where children gather and play, and targeted actions in violence hotspots. This is one of the evidence-based strategies in INSPIRE: 7 Strategies to Prevent Violence Against Children. But how do these initiatives work, and what makes them successful?

This webinar showcases global approaches to creating safe environments and communities. Speakers will focus on the lessons learned, challenges, adaptations and key ingredients of successful interventions.

This event is co-hosted by the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), the INSPIRE Working Group and the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN).

Moderator: Jody van der Heyde, INSPIRE Working Group Global Coordinator, ISS

Panelists:

• David Adoke, Country Director, Child’s i Foundation, Uganda
• Francine Stansfield, Project Coordinator, SOS Children’s Villages
• Sarah Morgan, Senior Child Protection Advisor (Violence against Children), Co-Lead, Protecting Children in and around Schools Technical Working Group, Save the Children, UK