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Tips and tricks for a warm and dry home this winter – Healthy homes workshop
The Pasifika Power & Control Wheel Translation Project – Webinar
Practitioner-Victim Insight Concept (PVIC) - ECLIPSE – Online
Child and Youth Wellbeing update - June 2022
Consultations: sexual harassment, surrogacy, and gender/sex self-identification process
Child Protection Studies Programme - Auckland South August 2022
Weekly Media Roundup
Govt launches new family violence workforce capability frameworks
Shooting for the stars
Mai World: Child & Youth Voices Team from the Office of the Children's Commissioner
Te Kawa Mataaho - Pay Equity Claim Validation Webinar & Survey
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day 2022, new prevention projects, recent research
Celebrating Matariki, resources for healing
Implementing Te Aorerekura – a survey of children and young people’s participation
Family Violence and Sexual Violence Service Provider Update
Te Puna Aonui - E-update July 2022
Pacific Women's Watch NZ - Virtual hui to discuss the next CEDAW report
Latest news from Growing Up in New Zealand - June 2022
Centre for Longitudinal Research Conference 2022
Save the Date - Annual Hui
Mō tātou, ā, mō kā uri ā muri ake nei - For us and our children after us
2022 He Kokonga Ngākau Symposium
Identifying and Responding to Vulnerability and Child Abuse
Article: Becoming Better Helpers
March 04, 2015 at 5:47 PM
Abstract
The prevalence of family violence is a persistent challenge facing New Zealand. Its effects are pervasive, spanning multiple levels: individuals, family/whanau, communities, and society in general. A major challenge in effectively addressing family violence is the apparent disconnect that exists between the various agencies and services that interact with families/wha -nau where abuse has become a defining feature of their lives. Despite efforts by agencies to become more collaborative, they tend to function in silos. In conducting a series of death reviews the Family Violence Death Review Committee has found agency records to reveal a lack of shared understanding of intimate partner violence as a gendered problem. The records misconstrue victims’ and perpetrators’ roles and convey distorted notions about the realities of victims’ lives and the context of the violence they suffer. This leads to practices that put victims and their children at further risk. In this article we discuss findings related to the use of language and the concept of empowerment that need to be critically considered by those working with victims and perpetrators and those planning and designing family violence responses and services.
You can read the full article here (It's only 7 pages and well worth a look!)