Family Violence Focus Group Working together to make our families and whānau safe
Jan 02, 2016
Family Violence Focus Group
Working together to make our families and whānau safe
The cost is too high
• An average of 12 women a year are killed by their partners
• Over 30,000 people in Auckland are reportedly affected by family violence
• The fallout costs between $1 billion and $5 billion
What the evidence tells us
• Men are the perpetrators of the most severe and lethal cases of family violence
• Women and children are the majority of victims
• Māori are over represented, both as victims and perpetrators
Across the boundaries
• Family violence is not exclusive to any one group
• It crosses all boundaries of culture, class, and background
Many dimensions
Family violence includes:• abuse by men and women, lesbians and
gay men• of parents or siblings by children• abuse and neglect of the elderly
A challenge for us all
• Complex problems like family violence need more than laws and regulations
• A lot of work is done outside Government
• We need to use our combined strength
The shame of family violence
• In 2000, 52% of murders were related to family violence
• The same year, nine children were murdered
• 8,000 women and 9,000 children used Women’s Refuge services (2000/2001)
The impact
• Family violence has far-reaching, multi-dimensional effects
• The cycle continues: children who experience family violence are more likely to become violent in adolescence
What works?
• Multi-faceted, culturally relevant approaches
• Education aimed at prevention • Strong community action and
responsiveness• Crisis intervention and treatment
services
An integrated approach
• A commitment to preventing violence in families and whānau must happen across the care and protection sector
• It needs an integrated, co-ordinated, collaborative approach
Te Rito: our response
• Launched in March 2002
• Builds on past progress and sets a future pathway
• Developed with government and non-government agencies
• economic growth moderately positive• primary sector growth to continue• Service industries expanding
Te Rito’s vision
A New Zealand where families and whānau live free from violence
Te Rito’s five key goals
• Intolerance to violence• Co-ordinated response efforts• Preventive education and early intervention• Culturally relevant approaches• Consistent, ongoing commitment to
prevention
Programme for action
• Eighteen specific areas of action
• Staged over a five-year period
• All areas are interrelated: gains in one area will spark gains in another
Funding Project
• Developing shared accountability for five key agencies
• Aligning assurance and audit processes
• Building organisations’ capacity • Determining funding priorities for
regions
Screening and risk
assessment• Police-led project to enhance
screening and risk assessment
• Government/community working group guiding the project
• Gathering information to develop and promote best practice
Research and
evaluation • Family Violence Clearing
House
• Comprehensive information resource
• National and international research and evaluation
Self-referred clients
• Self-referred victims and offenders can access funded programmes
• 68 provider organisations contracted
• Funding targeted to existing programmes
Conceptual Framework
• Developed by Te Puni Kokiri
• Building the strengths of iwi, hapu and whānau
• Using Māori solutions to reduce family violence
Framework for Pacific
communities
• Developed by Ministries of Pacific Island Affairs and Social Development
• Harnessing the strengths of Pacific communities
• Focusing on leadership, knowledge, and partnerships
Care and Protection Blueprint
• Vision and plan of action for agencies and organisations
• Outcomes-driven
• Promotes shared leadership and co-operation
Education campaign
• The Government is investing $10.8 million
• The campaign promotes the benefits of positive parenting, and non-physical ways of disciplining children
A challenge for us all
Stemming a culture of abuse is a challenge for us all
Our children must be enabled to reach their potential and play a fullpart in society
After today
Let us have a renewed sense of ourachievements
Let us know the importance of ourfuture work
Let us set our hearts right