The Kentucky rescue this week of a teenage girl asking for help through a hand signal tells “the amazing story of the power of a bystander,” a Covington violence prevention expert said during a Facebook Live event Thursday with The Enquirer.
“We have such power to impact other people’s lives,” said Lori Droege, director of prevention and public education at the Ion Center, formerly the Northern Kentucky Women’s Crisis Center.
The rescue shows “how we can all do our part to help kids to identify those kids who seem to be at risk,” said Dr. Robert Shapiro, director of the Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
The Enquirer’s report found that addressing domestic violence means confronting the adverse childhood experiences that inflict trauma that lasts into adulthood. The report also found that violence prevention programs in school have reduced dating and relationship violence among teenagers.
