In this article, Help Calm the Storm: What you Can Do Today to Prevent Child Maltreatment while Social Distancing, Frank Kros shares actions each of us can take during social distancing and sheltering in place to avoid one of the many unintended consequences of the COVID-19 interventions – a dramatic increase in child maltreatment.
Frank is a worldwide speaker and career child advocate who transitioned in 2019 from executive vice president of The Children’s Guild–a multi-service children's organization headquartered in Maryland–to his own professional development, consulting and coaching firm, Kros Learning Group. His experience includes service as a childcare worker, child abuse investigator, children’s home administrator, consultant, college professor, attorney, writer and speaker