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Dr. Erin Stern

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Senior Associate Prevention Collaborative

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Dr. Erin Stern @erinstern.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Why are alcohol & mental health still "missed opportunities" in violence prevention? Ruti Levtov & I reviewed 450+ sources for our new paper in Public Health. Huge thanks to the Prevention Collaborative team for the support! Read our review here: pdf.sciencedirectassets.com/272854/1-s2....
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Prevention Collaborative @prevention-collaborative.org · 01/12/2025
🚸 Strengthening the mental health of parents and caregivers can prevent family violence.  In this evidence review, @erinstern.bsky.social outlines how prevention programmes improve parental mental health to mitigate risks of child maltreatment. 🔗 cutt.ly/ftyF4KWM #PreventionCollaborative
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Prevention Collaborative @prevention-collaborative.org · 12/11/2025
📝 Thank you to everyone who joined our Senior Associate @erinstern.bsky.social at#GMHSummit2025 this week! 💬 Let’s keep the conversation on the critical links between mental health, intimate partner violence, and child maltreatment going! #UnderutilisedStrategies @gmhsummit.bsky.social
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Prevention Collaborative @prevention-collaborative.org · 24/11/2025
Parental mental health isn't just an individual issue—it's a structural one, deeply tied to patriarchal norms, power, & violence. Join this #MenEngageCoLab featuring @erinstern.bsky.social to explore how to end family violence. 📅 24 November ⏰ 3:00 PM CET 🔗 bit.ly/24NovCoLab
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Dr. Erin Stern @erinstern.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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Dr. Erin Stern @erinstern.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I'll be representing the Prevention Collaborative work considering the intersections between poor mental health and family violence at this important convening.
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Dr. Erin Stern @erinstern.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
At the opening plenary of the Global Mental Health Summit in Cape Town, Dr. Lenny Naido (Manager of Specialized Health for the City in the Western Cape) noted that one of the deepest causes of poor mental health in the city is violence including community level violence and domestic violence.
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Dr. Erin Stern @erinstern.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
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Dr. Erin Stern @erinstern.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
As part of What Works to Prevent VAWG Ending Violence against Women and Children Help Desk I found it very eye opening albeit harrowing to co-write (with Erika Fraser) a rapid evidence review on orphan trafficking and how it increases the risk of abuse and exploitation of children.
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Prevention Collaborative @prevention-collaborative.org · 07/07/2025
✨Exciting news! 🎓Applications are open for this year’s cohort of our facilitated course, Programming for Prevention: A Practical Approach to Design & Implementation. 🔗Apply by 27 July cutt.ly/zrRtWgQ5 #ProgrammingWell
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Prevention Collaborative @prevention-collaborative.org · 19/05/2025
Join our new course and learn from experts Gemma Ferguson, @bini2025.bsky.social and @erinstern.bsky.social, to strengthen your capacity to prevent violence in the family using effective SBC strategies.       Apply before 31st May! 👉🏾 cutt.ly/QrktjjlP
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Dr. Erin Stern @erinstern.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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Dr. Erin Stern @erinstern.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Interested in how evidence based strategies from the mental health and alcohol fields can inform and strengthen IPV prevention curricula? Check out this new report that synthesizes discussions about such opportunities with 15 alcohol use and mental health experts.
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Dr. Erin Stern @erinstern.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
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By Scrapping WAGE, Carney Unravels Decades of Progress | The Tyee
Women and Gender Equality Canada did vital work. Now that it’s gone, here’s what we stand to lose.
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Dr. Erin Stern @erinstern.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
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By Scrapping WAGE, Carney Unravels Decades of Progress | The Tyee
Women and Gender Equality Canada did vital work. Now that it’s gone, here’s what we stand to lose.
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Dr. Erin Stern @erinstern.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
#CollaborativeQ&A 3: Parenting programmes can strengthen parental mental health through various pathways including: strengthening bond with children, increasing mental health literacy, increasing parental confidence and social support, increasing food security, decreasing marital conflict and IPV.
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Dr. Erin Stern @erinstern.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
#CollaborativeQ&A 2: There are a range of protective factors that can strengthen the mental health of parents and caregivers, from social support to economic strategies to more equitable divisions of caregiving, which can in turn prevent the risk of child maltreatment.
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Dr. Erin Stern @erinstern.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
#CollaborativeQ&A 1. The evidence warrants the need to take parental and caregiver mental health seriously, which can increase the risk of child maltreatment, particularly in combination with additional risk factors: poverty, history of childhood maltreatment and trauma, marital conflict, and IPV.
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Dr. Erin Stern @erinstern.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
#CollaborativeQ&A Sinovuyo programme in South Africa focuses on improving caregiver adolescent relationships through emotional and conflict management and problem-solving. A evaluation found reductions in abuse reported by youth and caregivers, and parenting stress and depression. cutt.ly/jreZh6MP
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Parenting for Lifelong Health: a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial of a non-commercialised parenting programme for adolescents and their families in South Africa - PubMed
Pan-African Clinical Trials Registry PACTR201507001119966.
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Dr. Erin Stern @erinstern.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
#CollaborativeQ&A MaPa parenting curriculum in the Philippines incorporated mindfulness stress reduction activities for caregivers. MaPa female caregivers reported that the mindfulness-based practices helped them regulate their anger towards their children and spouses. cutt.ly/LreZh0OB
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Dr. Erin Stern @erinstern.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
#CollaborativeQ&A This brief aimed to take a broad view of available evidence to better understand pathways between parental mental health and child maltreatment: systematic reviews, quantitative, qualitative, implementation science research, although prioritized evidence from the Global South.
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Dr. Erin Stern @erinstern.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
#CollaborativeQ&A This is a highly topical systematic review on the effectiveness of parenting programmes to strengthen mental health among parents and caregivers who are refugees and forcibly displaced families. cutt.ly/zreZbkkc
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Parenting Interventions for Refugees and Forcibly Displaced Families: A Systematic Review - PubMed
Globally, an estimated 79.5 million individuals have been displaced, nearly 40% of whom are children. Parenting interventions may have the potential to improve outcomes for displaced families. To inve...
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Dr. Erin Stern @erinstern.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
#CollaborativeQ&A This is an interesting new review on the particular value of group based programmes to strengthen parental and caregiver mental health: cutt.ly/ZreZbizg
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Group-Based Parenting Programs for Improving Parenting and Psychosocial Functioning: A Systematic Review | Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research: Vol 4, No 4
Parental psychosocial health can have a significant effect on the later psychological health of the child. Parenting programs have been shown to have an effect on the emotional and behavioral adjustme...
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Dr. Erin Stern @erinstern.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
#CollaborativeQ&A The U.S. Surgeon General's Advisory on the Mental Health & Well-Being of Parents helpfully conveys why this is an issue to take seriously! cutt.ly/ireZv4x3
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Dr. Erin Stern @erinstern.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
#CollaborativeQ&A UNICEF's Caring for the Caregiver Module builds frontline workers’ skills in strengths-based counseling to increase caregivers’ confidence and help them develop stress management, self-care, and conflict-resolution skills to support their emotional well-being. cutt.ly/HreZvSgl
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Caring for the Caregiver (CFC) Training Module
The CFC training module builds frontline workers’ skills in strengths-based counseling to increase caregivers’ confidence and help them develop stress management, self-care, and conflict-resolution sk...
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Dr. Erin Stern @erinstern.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
#CollaborativeQ&A The Pathways Diagram (Figure 1) also distills underlying factors that can increase the risk of poor parental and caregiver mental health including childhood trauma and adversities, gender norms and inequalities, IPV, poverty and food insecurity, conflict, and social support.
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Dr. Erin Stern @erinstern.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
#CollaborativeQ&A Figure 1 in the brief presents pathways of how common mental health problems among parents can influence poor mental health by influencing parental-child relationship quality, self-esteem and resilience, self-regulation and emotional management.
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Dr. Erin Stern @erinstern.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
MaPa in the Philippines: www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journal...
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Dr. Erin Stern @erinstern.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Parenting for Lifelong Health in South Africa: cutt.ly/jreZh6MP
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Parenting for Lifelong Health: a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial of a non-commercialised parenting programme for adolescents and their families in South Africa - PubMed
Pan-African Clinical Trials Registry PACTR201507001119966.
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Dr. Erin Stern @erinstern.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Safe at Home in DRC: cutt.ly/MreZhKcA
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Effectiveness of a family violence prevention program on mental health outcomes for adult men and women in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo: Insights from a pilot trial
The eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has faced dual burdens of poor mental health and heightened levels of violence against women and children within the home. Interventions addressing famil...
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Dr. Erin Stern @erinstern.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
#CollaborativeQ&A Sugira Muryango parenting programme in Rwanda: cutt.ly/yreZhQSz
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Promoting parent-child relationships and preventing violence via home-visiting: a pre-post cluster randomised trial among Rwandan families linked to social protection programmes - BMC Public Health
Background Sugira Muryango is a father-engaged early child development and violence-prevention home-visiting programme delivered by trained lay workers. This cluster-randomised trial evaluates whether...
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Dr. Erin Stern @erinstern.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
#CollaborativeQ&A Bandebereho parenting programme in Rwanda: cutt.ly/lreZhjAL
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Gender-transformative Bandebereho couples' intervention to promote male engagement in reproductive and maternal health and violence prevention in Rwanda: Findings from a randomized controlled trial - ...
ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02694627.
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Dr. Erin Stern @erinstern.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
#CollaborativeQ&A This complementary review synthesises how common mental health problems among parents and caregivers can influence their risk of perpetrating child maltreatment. Link to earlier brief on IPV and poor mental health can be found here: prevention-collaborative.org/wp-content/u...
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Dr. Erin Stern @erinstern.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
#CollaborativeQ&A This review compliments an earlier brief produced by the Collaborative on how poor mental health can increase the risk of perpetrating and experiencing intimate partner violence and why efforts to alleviate common mental health problems can be an effective prevention strategy.
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Dr. Erin Stern @erinstern.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Please come join our live one hour Q and A session starting in a few minutes today!
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Prevention Collaborative @prevention-collaborative.org · 24/02/2025
#HapenningTomorrow!  Join the #CollaborativeQ&A right here on Bluesky with @erinstern.bsky.social✍️ Share your questions and reflections on how to integrate violence prevention strategies in parenting programmes!
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Prevention Collaborative @prevention-collaborative.org · 20/02/2025
📝 How can you join? 📅 Tuesday, 25th February Prepare your questions and send them to us to engage with @erinstern.bsky.social during the live chat. Use the hashtag #CollaborativeQ&A on Bluesky to stay connected with the conversation.
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Prevention Collaborative @prevention-collaborative.org · 10/02/2025
Why should mothers’ mental health and the use of violence against their children be understood through the wider lens of gender inequalities? Read our latest evidence review to find out: cutt.ly/ve5reg8g
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Dr. Erin Stern @erinstern.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
There has been increased attention to the mental health needs of parents and caregivers. This evidence review I wrote considers additional benefits of strengthening the mental health of parents and caregivers: an important strategy to prevent child maltreatment.
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Prevention Collaborative @prevention-collaborative.org · 04/02/2025
🚨 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐭!🚨 Common mental health problems among parents and caregivers can affect how they treat children. This review reveals how poor mental health in caregivers influences VAC—and how prevention efforts can make a difference. 👉 cutt.ly/ve5reg8g
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