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Benjamin Perks

@benjyperks.bsky.social
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Global advocacy lead for child protection & development @Unicef in New York. Author, campaigner, Dad & work in progress. First book Trauma Proof out soon. Literary representation by www.foliolit.com NYC

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Benjamin Perks @benjyperks.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Stopped by @dymocksbooks in #Melbourne to sign copies of #TraumaProof
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Benjamin Perks @benjyperks.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
#ChildDevelopmentRevolution in Portugal followed by Pastel de Nata
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Benjamin Perks @benjyperks.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Book signing with my little helper!
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Benjamin Perks @benjyperks.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Normal neurological changes make the teens & early twenties the riskiest period in human development. Adding intense social media culture wars and easy access to semi-automatic weapons pushes that risk over the edge.
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Benjamin Perks @benjyperks.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Thrilled to be taking all things Trauma-Proof to in Palm Beach this week. Be part of the event at The Breakers—or join us online—on September 9 🗓️ September 9, 2025 🕞 3:30 PM 💻 Join us in-person or virtually via Zoom 🎟️ Register today—space is limited! www.tinyurl.com/LTFBPerks
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Lead the Fight: Building a Trauma-Proof World
Join us at The Breakers for an exclusive afternoon with Benjamin Perks—a global champion for addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). Hosted by Kathy Leone, this high-impact event will feature...
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Benjamin Perks @benjyperks.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
‘Most baby boomer’s parents didn’t go to secondary school. In contrast, the baby boomers all went to secondary school and nearly half of their children continued in education after 18. That is an extraordinary leap in educational status across three generations.’ Eliza Filby #Inheritocracy
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Benjamin Perks @benjyperks.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
‘If you have a depressed parent you are more likely to be depressed because you were raised by a parent who couldn’t meet your emotional needs, because they couldn’t meet their own emotional needs because someone didn’t meet their emotional needs.’ Erica Komisar
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Benjamin Perks @benjyperks.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Loved doing this podcast on Trauma Proof with Warren Larkin open.spotify.com/episode/7p7y...
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From Adversity to Advocacy: Healing Childhood Trauma with Ben Perks
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Benjamin Perks @benjyperks.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
USAID cost $ 68 billion last year, 0.3% of the US budget. Congress passed a bill adding $3.3 trillion to the deficit over the next few years while a Lancet study forecasts USAID’s closure to cost up to 14 million deaths including 4.5 million children under 5 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 19/06/2025
"Enslaved people received, took, filed, fled, reclaimed, and sued for their freedom," writes Daina Ramey Berry. "What we acknowledge this Juneteenth must be about more than what was given. It must be about what had already been claimed."
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The Truth About Black Freedom
This year’s Juneteenth commemorations must take a deeper look at the history of Black self-liberation to understand what emancipation really means—and how far the country still has to go.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 10/06/2025
#copyediting martial law m a r t i a l not marital not marshal not marshall
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Warren Larkin Associates @wlassociates.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
We’ve had an amazing response and hundreds of professionals have already signed up. If you haven’t registered yet, there’s still time to grab your place: 👉 lnkd.in/eReqNsDm ✨ Exclusive bonus for attendees: Get 25% off Benjamin Perks’ new book Trauma Proof!👌 See you there!😊 #TraumaInformed #Webinar
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Benjamin Perks @benjyperks.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Word!
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Benjamin Perks @benjyperks.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
“The world’s richest man is killing the world’s poorest children.” —Bill Gates
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Benjamin Perks @benjyperks.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Alice Munro's story shows it's time for a child protection revolution benjaminperksblog.home.blog/2025/04/28/e...
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Ending Child Maltreatment
Alice Munro’s story shows it’s time for a child protection revolution Many lives were upended last year when Andrea, a woman in her late fifties publicly shared a long-suppressed testim…
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Benjamin Perks @benjyperks.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
In conversation with Trish Daly of @nytimes.com on #TraumaProof today
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Benjamin Perks @benjyperks.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Imagine a world where instead of culture wars or trade wars, we fight to finally make preventable death a thing of the past. www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
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One pregnant woman dies every two minutes globally, shocking new figures reveal
More than a quarter of a million women around the world died during their pregnancy or within six weeks of giving birth in 2023, WHO figures reveal. Rebecca Thomas and Alicja Hagopian report
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Benjamin Perks @benjyperks.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The halving of child mortality is perhaps humanity's greatest accomplishment. Millions of children survive each year because of global consensus & action. This international architecture is now being dismantled by dramatic, sweeping funding cuts. shorturl.at/XhBHb
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Levels and trends in child mortality 2024 - UNICEF DATA
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Benjamin Perks @benjyperks.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
It’s difficult viewing, but the 4-part series may be the most consequential show since 1984, when 60 million Americans watched Something About Amelia break a public taboo on child sexual abuse & unleash a wave of investment in child protection systems. A short piece on Adolescence. wp.me/paTxIw-1la
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Teenage Clicks
How Netflix’s Adolescence Highlights a Void we can Fill to Protect all Children Like many parents, I watched Adolescence through fingers, with a wince. It’s difficult viewing, but the four-part ser…
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Benjamin Perks @benjyperks.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
#Adolescence on #Netflix deftly portrays how the incendiary collision of unresolved, unintentional family trauma & the onset of teenage brain development renders kids vulnerable to predatory extremism & violence. A deadly, but highly preventable social problem
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Benjamin Perks @benjyperks.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Honoured to be featured in the @TheLancet today, ahead of the North America launch of Trauma Proof next month www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Ben Perks: we can end childhood trauma
“When I was young, I just wanted to change the world, and I still do”, says Ben Perks, Head of Advocacy at the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). “I was always optimistic, I just think that's th...
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Benjamin Perks @benjyperks.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Hearts go out to all those grieving loved ones or affected by serious injury in the #kocanifire🇲🇰
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Benjamin Perks @benjyperks.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
“People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi, executive director of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
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U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
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Benjamin Perks @benjyperks.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Most trauma lives in ordinary looking families & occurs automatically across generations, often without intent to harm. Ultimately there is no such thing as a normal family. Prevention needs to be universal & #ForEveryChild. Together we can build a #TraumaProof world.
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Benjamin Perks @benjyperks.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Political movements built on aggregating trauma and grievance always make things worse for the people they claim to serve.
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End Corporal Punishment @endcorppun.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Children in Uganda speak out on violence & suggest alternatives 'I feel bad when I am caned for minor minor mistakes' 'This caning can lead to serious injuries' 'Guide & counsel me, show me where I have done wrong. No severe punishments' 📺https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU5ZmnnGLMI @HSCmediaUg
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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Libraries are great for the books, sure, but it's also nice to have a quiet and safe space to sit and think- a place where no one is trying to sell you anything.
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Benjamin Perks @benjyperks.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Crucial findings from the @unibirmingham.bsky.social shed light on the impact of social media school bans on adolescents. Reduced time on social media enhances learning, wellbeing & behavioral outcomes, but relying solely on school bans doesn't work. lnkd.in/etJgu_-z.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 02/02/2025
If I were the stock market I simply wouldn't open tomorrow.
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
When Congressman John Lewis was a child, he tried to get a library card. He was turned away & told “The Library is not for coloureds” 💔 He’s a civil rights icon, lover of books, recipient of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. “The Library IS for Everyone” 💚 #BlackHistoryMonth
Mychal smiles in his “The Library is for Everyone” shirt from Out of Print clothing UNSTOPPABLE JOHN: How John Lewis Got His Library Card-and Helped Change History BY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR PAT ZIETLOW MILLER, ILLUSTRATED BY JERRY JORDAN
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Benjamin Perks @benjyperks.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Dame Esther Rantzen is one of my heroes. She unleashed a child protection revolution on Britain in the 1980s, bringing the taboo of child abuse to public consciousness. She gave voice to the victims and shape to how society should protect them. I am honored to get her praise for Trauma Proof.
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Benjamin Perks @benjyperks.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
I love @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social #RoryStewart & @therestpolitics.bsky.social but for the third time in weeks they placed victims of #Grooming & church abuse at the periphery rather than the centre of the story
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Benjamin Perks @benjyperks.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Every child asks three things about their teacher each day:1) Can I trust you? 2) Do you believe I can succeed? 3) Do you care about me? #ForEveryChild Proper #learning with a dedicated, committed #Teacher
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Benjamin Perks @benjyperks.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
AI is not the only massively consequential scientific advance of our era. Our new understanding of how to improve childhoods can minimize risk for poor mental & physical health, violence, addiction and obesity & transform societies for the better. #TraumaProof bit.ly/4jkgmAC
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Benjamin Perks @benjyperks.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Don't Politicize Grooming, Eradicate It -A short blog benjaminperksblog.home.blog/2025/01/11/i...
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Don’t Politicize Grooming, Eradicate It.
Photo credit: UNICEF Srbija/ Bicanski Manhattan magnates like Epstein or cabbie cartels in Yorkshire know their pray. They scour the same blind spots that drug dealers and violent extremist do. The…
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Benjamin Perks @benjyperks.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
My essay in the @telegraphnews.bsky.social on how we can be child trauma as one of the world’s costliest social problems. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01...
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My upbringing was so violent, I expected to be woken up with a punch. But we can end childhood trauma
Like most children who live through abuse and neglect, I always blamed myself – but here’s how I learnt to break the generational cycle
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Benjamin Perks @benjyperks.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Delighted to speak with Mellissa Fleming on the Awake At Night podcast ahead of the UK launch of my book Trauma Proof. bit.ly/4iXqMpA
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/01/2025
While we’re banning books… Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar. Be. Like. Finland.
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Benjamin Perks @benjyperks.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Like poverty, emotional neglect & abuse drive education inequality. Schools & communities that make every child know they matter are safer, fairer & more prosperous.
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Benjamin Perks @benjyperks.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
The tragic death of #SaraSharif is heartbreaking. Can’t help but think it could have been prevented if child protection systems were much better resourced & respected & if the UK joined other countries in outlawing #corporalpunishment & #homeschooling
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Benjamin Perks @benjyperks.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Urgent work must now begin to ensure this peace in Lebanon is sustained. Children deserve stability, hope, and a chance to rebuild their futures. UNICEF will continue to stand with them every step of the way.
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Benjamin Perks @benjyperks.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Thank you @euanwilmshurst.bsky.social
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Benjamin Perks @benjyperks.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I had truly intended to compose a profound first post on @bsky.app, but then I saw this probable #Thanksgiving fugitive on the way to the train in #Bronxville #NewYork
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