Public Health Model of Prevention and People with Disabilities
Cema Mastroelo

Participants in this workshop will receive information that parallels the first two steps of the Public Health Model of Prevention: defining the issue of violence in the lives of people with disabilities; and identifying and understanding its risks and protective factors. Facilitator will address topics such as incidence, severity, dynamics and effects of violence, victims/survivors with disabilities, perpetrators, tactics and environment risk and protective factors, among other possible factors.