Perspectives on Prevention

Recorded at the Prevention and Early Intervention Network summit 2025, Marian Quinn sits down with Benjamin Perks. Benjamin works for the UN in New York, campaigning on human rights and child development. They discuss population health approaches and global initiatives to tackle children’s health issues and how they apply to at local level to child protection and well being. Ben is a published author with his book Trauma Proof described as ‘fearless, optimistic and written with humour and tenderness. Its passion comes from the authors own journey of a childhood in care and 25 years spent working for the UN on child rights.’ https://www.benjaminperks.com/traumaproof

About the series

Perspectives on Prevention is a podcast series from the Prevention and Early Intervention Network, a membership organisation which seeks to promote and support prevention and early intervention approaches with children, families and communities. In each episode Marian Quinn, one of the PEIN founders, chats to people who have experiences to share, insights to explore, and expertise to draw on from the field of child and family services. You can listen to Perspectives on Prevention on Spotify, Apple, Nearcast or wherever you get your podcasts. Be sure to subscribe for all the latest episodes. If you’d like to suggest someone for us to chat to we’d love to hear from you, just drop us an email at info@pein.ie . For more information please visit www.pein.ie

Perspectives on Prevention is made with the Nearcast podcast network, for more information on Nearcast visit https://nearcast.ie/get-involved/

The music on this podcast is a track called Driven to Success by Scott Holmes, the music appears here under a Creative Commons License. Visit scottholmesmusic.com