The SMART Africa and ICHAD teams are thrilled with all that SMART Africa Global Fellow Dr. Tyrone Parchment has accomplished in the last few months. Along with Global Fellows Drs. Latoya Small (first author), Hadiza Osuji, and Ozge Sensoy Bahar and SMART Africa colleagues Dr. Arvin Bhana and Dean Mary McKay, Dr. Tyrone co-authored an article entitled, “South African caregivers as ‘protective shields’: Serving as a buffer between stressful neighborhood conditions, food security and youth risk behaviors.” The article is in the process of being revised and resubmitted to the Journal of Community Psychology. In addition to the publication, Dr. Tyrone is also collaborating with Dr. Theresa Betancourt on an R01 grant proposal to The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) as a Co-Investigator (PI: Theresa Betancourt) entitled “Strategies for Engaging Fathers and Male Caregivers in Family-Based Preventive Interventions in Sierra Leone.” If funded, the grant will test an innovative participatory delivery model, the Enhanced Father-Engaged Collaborative Team Approach (EFECTA), versus usual delivery. EFECTA will link Sierra Leone’s Community Healthcare Workers (CHWs) with a rich network of village leaders (Paramount Chiefs) and male-led organizations to devise and employ explicit strategies for increasing father engagement in the FSI-ECD. In an effort to prepare for the grant proposal, Dr. Tyrone recently traveled to Freetown, Sierra Leone to meet with government officials such as the Ministry of Health and Sanitation, the Director of Primary Health Care, the Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children Affairs and community stakeholders such as UNICEF and MenEngage, a non-profit that works with men and boys to promote gender equality. The visit was very productive and solidified future collaborators for the project. Congratulations, Dr. Tyrone, for your all your work promoting caregiver support in Sub-Saharan Africa!