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Overlooked and Forgotten
27 February 2025, 12:30 pm–2:00 pm
Online webinar presented by Karen Green Stewart and Sophie Wallace-Hanlon
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Psychoanalysis Unit
About
A Safer London and UCL Collaboration to develop better bereavement support for those affected by murder.
In 2021, there were 30 teenage homicide victims in London alone. The impact of these losses on family, friends, neighbourhoods and communities are long-lasting and profoundly traumatic – and those affected have reported that the existing model of bereavement care they receive too often fails to meet the needs of parents, siblings, friends and wider family and community members.
This project was initiated by a mother, Karen Green Stewart, whose son Lamar Stewart was murdered in 2017. Together with Safer London and Karen Green Stewart, UCL worked, using qualitative research methods, with individuals bereaved due to youth violence-related murder to find out more about existing forms of support. As well as to learn from them in order to develop a better model for providing the complex and much-needed help families and communities deserve. This webinar will discuss the main findings of this research.
Speakers
- Karen Green Stewart
Karen Green Stewart initiated this research after the tragic circumstances of her son Lamar being murdered in 2017. In the aftermath of this horrific event she noticed a lack of support for herself, her family and those outside her immediate family. Lamar’s cousins, his best friend, their neighbours - who all had strong connections with Lamar – were not offered any bereavement support. As a result of this experience Karen brought her concerns to Safer London and initiated this research.
- Sophie Wallace-Hanlon
Sophie Wallace-Hanlon is a researcher currently serving as the Interim SUMMIT Trial Coordinator at University College London and the Anna Freud Centre. She joined the Psychoanalysis Unit in 2020 and works on both national and international clinical trials funded by The National Institute for Health Research, evaluating the effectiveness of community based mental health interventions in health and criminal justice settings. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology at the University of Surrey and previously worked as a Research Assistant at the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King’s College London.
