JoAnn Stevelos

JoAnn Stevelos

JoAnn Elizabeth Stevelos is a writer, public health strategist and survivor-advocate exploring trauma, systems and institutional accountability. Her essays have appeared in The Guardian, Chicago Story Press, and North American Review. She holds degrees from Columbia University, SUNY Albany and Albany Medical College.

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Toys are displayed outside the prosecutor's office in a symbolic act seeking to draw the attention to child sexual abuse in Bogotá, Colombia, Nov. 20, 2025. (AP/Fernando Vergara)

Child sexual abuse needs a public health response. The Catholic Church can help.

Imagine if the Catholic Church's global infrastructure became one of the world's largest implementation networks for evidence-based child sexual abuse prevention.

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