How can we keep children safe from violence? with Kathleen Cravero (Episode 13)

You may not be surprised, with the level of gun violence in this country, that the US has one of the highest rates of school violence in the world. But violence against children is perpetrated in homes and in schools, in many forms, and in families and countries rich and poor. As the future of our society, either we prevent violence against children while they are young, or we will have to take care of the consequences as they get older. Whether they are your children or someone else’s, children are the future of our society, making them everyone’s responsibility to keep safe. This includes preventing them from witnessing violence, which also has very serious long-lasting effects. Violence against children is one of the biggest public health problems of our time, and there are dedicated people working to end it on a global scale. But what can we do to help?

In this episode of the Making Public Health Personal podcast, we discuss evidence based strategies to prevent and end violence against children. Host Laura Meoli-Ferrigon speaks with today’s guest Dr. Kathleen Cravero, Distinguished Lecturer in the Health Policy and Management Department here at CUNY SPH. Dr. Cravero is also the Co-Director of the Center for Immigrant, Refugee and Global Health. She spent 25 years working for the United Nations, including a key role at UNICEF, and dedicates her career to ending violence against women and children. Dr. Cravero will share findings from the CDC’s Violence Against Children and Youth Surveys that were collected over 10 years in 24 countries. This includes who is most affected, where they live and how government officials can decide which of the seven evidence based implementations to reduce violence against children should be implemented. No matter what your sphere of influence is, this episode will provide resources to become part of the solution.   

Episode links: 

Find out more and connect with Dr. Kathleen Cravero: https://sph.cuny.edu/about/people/faculty/kathleen-cravero/ 

Keep Kids Safe - Prevention. Healing. Justice: www.keep-kids-safe.org 

Keeping Children Safe - Let’s end child abuse in organisations: https://www.keepingchildrensafe.global/ 

End Violence: www.end-violence.org  

End Childhood Sexual Violence: https://www.bravemovement.org/ 

Download a transcript of this episode here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/56ppuv0kgivrbrc/Ep%2013%20Transcript.docx?dl=0