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Family Violence Focus Group. Working together to make our families and wh ā nau 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 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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