Meet the speakers
David Lamin is a Child Protection Specialist working for UNICEF in Sierra Leone, He works with government and civil society partners to learn about, strengthen community mechanisms and link such mechanisms to the formal systems for the protection of children and women.David also works with government and civil society to strengthen elements of a national child protection especially legal and policy frameworks, prevention and response mechanisms, information management, social services workforce strengthening and coordination.
Mike Wessells is a Professor at Columbia University in the Program on Forced Migration and Health. A long time psychosocial and child protection practitioner, he is former Co-Chair of the IASC Task Force on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings. Formerly, he was co-focal point on mental health and psychosocial support for the revision of the Sphere humanitarian standards. He has conducted extensive research on the holistic impacts of war and political violence on children, and he is author of Child soldiers: From violence to protection (Harvard University Press, 2006). Currently, he is lead researcher on inter-agency, multi-country action research on strengthening community-based child protection mechanisms by enabling effective linkages with national child protection systems.
WATCH THE PREVIOUS WEBINARS!
On 15th June, we hosted our second webinar of the series “This Much I Know: Practitioners Reflect on Community-Based MHPSS” . We had the opportunity to learn from Mukasa Moses and Rebecca Horn’s conversation on community-led child protection.
Watch the recording here.
Earlier this month, we hosted our first webinar of the series “This Much I Know: Practitioners Reflect on Community-Based MHPSS” on 6th June 2023. We had the opportunity to learn from Mike Wessells and Ken Ondoro’s conversation on community-led child protection.
Watch the recording here.
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