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2024
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NZFVC Quick Reads: 14 March 2024
Webinar: Setting our Tertiary Students up for Success
Consultation on 5 bills: corrections, parole, firearms, gangs and courts remote participation
Update on the new entry way into the sexual violence response system – online
PADA Tama'ita'i Toa workshop
Calls for EOIs - Whakamanawa - The National Social Services Conference 2024
Child Protection Training - Auckland Region
Shine Level 2 - Foundational skills training – Auckland
Practitioner-Victim Insight Concept (PVIC) - Online
Foundational Family Violence 101 Dynamics, Indicators and Impacts
Child Protection and Family Violence – Online
Weekly Media Roundup
International Women’s Day 2024: Events, history and resources
NZFVC Quick Reads: 8 March 2024
Belong Aotearoa: Diversity Mapping in the Henderson Massey area
NZFVC Quick Reads: 1 March 2024
The Grief Centre: 'Let's talk about grief' conference and March webinars
'Talking Masculinities' Free Talks for Teachers and Youth Workers
Kōrero with Prof Margaret Mutu
Weekly Media Roundup
Te Puna Aonui Pānui - February 2024
Briefings to Incoming Ministers outline key issues for family violence and sexual violence
Introduction to Safe and Together™ - Webinar
Final report released for He Waka Eke Noa
Weekly Media Roundup
May 12, 2023 at 4:34 PM
Waatea News: Corrections takes on family violence strategy
The department at the sharp end of the consequences of family and sexual violence has released a strategy to address the issues.
Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis says it’s in response to a call from Marama Davidson, the Minister for the Elimination of Family and Sexual Violence, for all government agencies to have their own strategy.
He says Corrections deals with a lot of people who have been either the perpetrators or the victims of family and sexual violence – or both.
NZ Herald: Pet Refuge appeal: Call to help charity shelter for ‘silent victims’ of family violence
She’s the littlest love in her human mum’s life.
So, there was no way a North Island woman was going to leave her beloved bird behind when an abusive former partner found out where they were living, making home unsafe for both owner and pet.
She would’ve stayed, risking death, if animal charity Pet Refuge hadn’t been able to take in her bird while she started the long process of finding a new, safe place to live away from the man who’d abused her in “every way” possible during their short-lived relationship, the woman said.
Stuff: Cost of dental care forces abuse victim to live with broken teeth
A woman whose teeth were punched out by her abusive boyfriend has to live in excruciating pain because she can't afford the dental care to repair them.
Ellie, who didn’t want her real name used out of fear, is regularly hospitalised with oral infections which make it difficult for her to hold down a job. She has been told it will cost her at least $25,000 to repair her teeth.
The Association of Salaried Medical Specialists says it is common for people to put off dental care because of the cost, and called on the Government to make it free for all.
Stuff: Struggling families 'stuck' using buy now pay later for Essentials
Struggling families are getting caught in a poverty trap by racking up hundreds of dollars of debt using buy now pay later schemes for meat, nappies and other everyday essentials, budget advisers warn.
Financial mentors are increasingly alarmed by the number of people buying groceries through lenders Afterpay and Zip, as low-income whānau struggle to cope with the cost of living.
Stuff: Parents subjected their five children to 'abuse of the worst kind'
CONTENT WARNING:
A mother and father subjected their five children to ongoing sexual, violent and emotional abuse, in a case a judge has called “one of the saddest” he’s ever seen.
The mother and father, both 46, subjected their children to disturbing ordeals including “sex talks” where they were naked and demonstrated sexual acts on each other in front of them. The father injected one of his children with a substance that made them hyperactive on more than one occasion.
This offending was just the tip of the iceberg as Judge Michael Crosbie read the summary of facts to a Christchurch District courtroom packed full of the child victims, now all adults, and a raft of their supporters.
“This is one of the saddest cases I've come across in my two decades on the bench”, the judge told the court.