Implementing NO HIT ZONES for preventing child maltreatment: Experiences from Sierra Leone
Date/Time
2/21/2025 - 2/21/2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Eastern
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Eastern
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Event Description
Description: With this Zoom Chat Ibrahim Bangura, founder of Future Leaders Initiative, Sierra Leone and Dr. Lucien X. Lombardo of Old Dominion University and a member of the National No Hit Zone Committee in the US illustrate and discuss 6 strategic lessons from their work to bring NO HIT ZONES to Sierra Leone. We hope these comparative lessons sharpen the focus of lenses through which we view our professional prevention work and its connections to NO HIT ZONES.
Outline:
1. What to know about Sierra Leone: Children’s Perspective
2. Some background on Sierra Leone and violence in children’s lives
3. Sorting through the reasons to “not hit children’! Evidence, rights, dignity
4. Community Sensitization and Awareness Campaigns: not just the NHZ location
5. Training and Capacity-Building for Teachers: Adding perspective to ‘teaching’ on
Teaching
6. Youth and Child Engagement Through Peer Advocacy: generational change
7. Parents2Parents (P2P) Community Support Groups: Sharing and Empowering to
8. Issuing No Hit Zone Signage : Visibility to community
Presenters: Ibrahim Bangura and Lucien Lombardo, PhD
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