Understanding & Preventing Violence Against Children · AfriChild Learning

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Understanding & Preventing Violence Against Children · AfriChild Learning

What you’ll learn

Describe the main forms of violence against children
Explain the scale and lifelong impact of VAC
Identify risk and protective factors
Explain the seven INSPIRE prevention strategies
Recognise your own role in preventing violence

Skills you’ll gain

Violence preventionINSPIRE strategiesRisk & protective factorsChild protectionPublic health approach

Course content

6 modules · 9 lessons · 1 final test · 1 certificate

1The forms of violence against children1 lesson

What violence against children looks like

Practice quiz · 2 questions Ungraded

2The scale & impact1 lesson

How common — and how damaging

Practice quiz · 2 questions Ungraded

3Risk & protective factors1 lesson

What increases or reduces the risk

Practice quiz · 2 questions Ungraded

4The INSPIRE strategies2 lessons

Seven strategies that work

Watch: INSPIRE — ending violence against children

Practice quiz · 2 questions Ungraded

5Everyone's role in prevention1 lesson

What you can do

Practice quiz · 2 questions Ungraded

6Glossary, Resources & Wrap-up3 lessons

Glossary of key terms

Resources & further reading

Course summary & next steps

★Final Test6 questions (drawn from a pool of 10) · 70% to pass · graded

Pass the final test to earn your certificate

Instructor

The AfriChild Centre

Uganda’s centre of excellence for the study of the African child

This course is developed and delivered by The AfriChild Centre, drawing on its research and practice in child wellbeing and protection across the region.

About this course

A deeper look at violence against children (VAC): its forms, its scale and lifelong impact, the risk and protective factors that drive or reduce it, and the WHO INSPIRE strategies for prevention. Complements Foundations of Child Protection with a prevention focus. For practitioners, community workers, teachers and students.

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