Dear VPF Friends, 

Welcome to the Violence Prevention Forum newsletter. On a weekly basis we will be sharing job, funding and training opportunities, details for webinars relevant to violence and its prevention, and links to new research and guidelines. We hope you find this a useful resource.

Although the South African government acknowledges the importance of preventing violence, many existing interventions at community level are delivered by non-governmental organisations. Speakers at this event will share their research findings about scaling-up the delivery of violence prevention, and opportunities for increasing the quality and impact of these programmes.

 

This online seminar is co-hosted by the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) and the Department of the Premier, Western Cape Government.

 

This webinar will take place on the 10^th of May 2023.

 

Child maltreatment is a significant global public health issue, with parents and caregivers being the most common perpetrators. The WHO has recently released guidelines on parenting interventions to prevent maltreatment and enhance parent-child relationships for children aged 0-17 years.

 

Backhaus for a webinar exploring the policy recommendations of the guidelines as well as the underlying evidence from 65 countries in every region of the world. This webinar will look beyond the question of whether parenting interventions are effective across different settings and subgroups.

 

This webinar will take place on the 10^th of May 2023.

You are invited! Parenting and Leadership “Train the Trainer” workshop by the Parent Centre

 

Join the Parent Center for an empowering 11 session workshop that strives to empower parents and caregivers with effective, healthy parenting skills, to help children reach their full potential. This workshop is aimed at social and auxiliary workers, Community Development Workers, Counselors, Educators and anybody who works with parents.

You are invited! Join Jelly Beanz for a 3-day Play Therapy Workshop

 

Years ago, we understood the language of play, but as we grew into adulthood, words may have become the language we are now more familiar with. If we want to provide healing experiences for children that have experienced trauma, abuse or neglect, it is critical that we re-learn the language of play with Children. Join Jelly Beans for a 3-day play therapy workshop from the 5^th to the 7^th of June in Durbanville, Cape Town.

Publication: GCRO Vignette #44 - Intersections of intimate partner violence and food insecurity in Gauteng

 

The Gauteng City-Region Observatory has  released research observing Poverty-related factors have been associated with increased levels of IPV. Food insecurity is a proxy for poverty, but it also has a specific causal pathway leading to greater risk of IPV for women. Because of widely-shared societal norms and historical gender roles that position men as the expected ‘providers’ or ‘breadwinners’ in a household, an inability to put food on the table can lead to feelings of frustration, anxiety, stress, disempowerment and misplaced anger among men. This in turn may lead to an increased risk of IPV for female partners.