For more information and to stay involved, sign up to these mailing lists:

• Together for Girls - a newsletter ‌to join a growing, global community dedicated to ending violence against children and adolescents.

• Net-VAC - a network of early career violence researchers who are interested in exploring how school, household, neighbourhood and community contexts shape experiences of and use of violence as children grow up.

• AfriChild – stay in touch with events and updates from the AfriChild Centre.

• SVRI – a growing network on research on violence against women and violence against children including researchers, practitioners, donors, activists, and policy makers across the globe. SVRI has a regular newsletter you can sign up for.

Here are some resources for self and collective care as you take this course and learn about violence against children:

• Brave Movement, Practicing Self-Care, 2024

• Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) provides multiple resources on Wellness, Self and Collective Care and a self-guided course Dare to Care: Wellness, self and collective care for those working in the VAW and VAC fields.

We welcome your feedback about this course. Please submit any feedback on section 4, the previous sections, and on your learning journey.

We also welcome suggestions for additional case studies and examples of projects using the VACS data for research, policy, programming, and advocacy. Submit your ideas!