This is a day of research sharing to enhance our understanding of child matreatment in South Africa and ways to intervene effectively through strengthening parenting. Stakeholders from various settings - NGO, government, academia - are encouraged to attend.

The programme will be as follows:
09:00-09:20 - Registration, tea, and coffee
09:20-09:30 - Welcome & instructions
09:30-10:00 - Findings from the UBS Optimus Study on Child Sexual Abuse (Professor Catherine Ward, UCT)
10:00-11:15 - Investigating Shaken Baby Syndrome in South Africa (Kirsty Nefdt, Vimbayinashe Chibombo, & Frances Mattes, UCT)
11:15-11:30 - Tea break
11:30-13:00 - Parenting for Lifelong Health Programmes (Anna Booij & Nomagugu Mukadah; Clowns Without Borders for South Africa; Nicholas Dowdall; Libromat/University of Oxford; Catherine Ward, UCT)
13:00-13:45 - Lunch
13:45-15:00 - Parenting & Violence Prevention (Inge Wessels & Gary Ganz, UCT; Dr Jamie Lachman, Clowns Without Borders/University of Oxford)
15:00-15:10 - Closing and thanks