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2024
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NZFVC Quick Reads: 27 March 2024
Being trauma-informed in practice with Dr Nicola Atwool - 3 part online workshop
Survivor Experiences Service
ACC RFP for community-led primary prevention 'anchor partners'
Survey and consultation for kaimahi Māori
Rob Veale Workshop: Risk assessment in the context of intimate partner violence
MSD's FVSV Update April 2024
NZFVC Quick Reads: 18 April 2024
The Intersections of Domestic and Family Violence with Substance Use – Webinar
Child Protection and Family Violence
Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Family Violence
Sexual violence in tertiary education: Aotearoa and international research and resources
Whakamanawa - The National Social Services Conference 2024
Weekly Media Roundup
Court related changes: FV Safety programme and cultural reports
NZFVC Quick Reads: 11 April 2024
Te Pai Ora SSPA Presents: Enhancing Leadership
Lifewise Parenting Courses for Term 2 2024
Group Facilitating Training with Fay Lilian
Weekly Media Roundup
NZFVC Quick Reads: 5 March 2024
Community Meeting - Save School Lunches
April webinars at the Grief Centre
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.