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Kia ora and welcome to the latest newsletter from the NZFVC, a monthly update of resources, news and events for those working to prevent family violence in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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The Clearinghouse has published the 2017 Data Summaries - details in the Tip of the Month below.
A number of other recent reports also focus on data, including the Family Violence Death Review Committee and Superu's 2017 Families and Whānau status reports.
Superu has also published 'What works for children exposed to family violence?' In Australia, ANROWS has published two significant new reports on topical issues: one on the relationship between specialist community-based domestic and family violence support services and statutory child protection organisations (the PATRICIA project) and one on Domestic and Family Violence and Parenting.
You will find these and more in the New Resources section.
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Tip of the Month
Updated data on family violence
The 2017 Data Summaries are now available.
Data Summaries are a collation of family violence statistics from government and non-government agencies and research studies. The data is collated by the New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse.
These Data Summaries are linked to definitions documents to assist in the interpretation of the data. There are also links to these on the main Data Summaries page.
Please note that the data summaries do not provide any analysis of data by ethnicity.
For other sources of data, please go to our
Statistics
page.
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New resources
Here are some of the books, reports, and other resources added to the NZFVC library this month. Use the "read more" link to the NZFVC library online to read the full summary and request or download the item. Please contact us if any links are broken.
New Zealand
Data reports
Age Concern New Zealand. (2017).
Elder abuse key trends: Data from Age Concern New Zealand's Elder Abuse and Neglect Prevention Services
. Wellington, New Zealand: Age Concern New Zealand.
Summar
y: This fact sheet presents some key data on elder abuse and neglect extracted from Age Concern New Zealand's database for the 2015-2016 year..
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Family Violence Death Review Committee. (2017).
Fifth report data: January 2009 to December 2015
. Wellington, New Zealand: Health Quality and Safety Commission.
Summary
: This data report is a companion data report to the Committee's comprehensive Fifth report, released in 2016...
Pasifika Futures. (2017).
Pasifika people in New Zealand: How are we doing? Auckland, New Zealand Pasifika Futures.
Summary
: This report provides a current statistical overview of Pacific peoples in New Zealand. It provides demographic and background data on the current state of Pacific participation in the areas of education, health...
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Superu. (2017).
Families and whānau status report 2017. Wellington, New Zealand: Superu.
Summary
: This report looks at the pivotal role that families and whānau hold within our society. It is the fifth in a series of annual reports which provide an essential background to any study, process or programme involving social services, and will aid better decision-making to improve the lives of New Zealand's families, whānau and their communities...
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Te Puni Kōkiri. (2017).
Understanding family violence: Māori in New Zealand [Infographic]. Wellington, New Zealand: Te Puni Kōkiri.
Summary: This resource introduces a set of indicators collated from a range of agencies which provide a picture about the prevalence of violence across Māori families in Aotearoa New Zealand...
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UNICEF. (2017).
Building the future: Children and the Sustainable Development Goals in rich countries. Florence, Italy: UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti.
Innocenti report card, no. 14
Summary: This report analyses inequality in 41 high-income countries. It looks at how far children are falling behind in the dimensions of income, education, health and life satisfaction. New Zealand features in just some of the tables due to lack of data... Read more
New frameworks and guidelines
Ministry of Justice. (2017).
Family violence risk assessment and management framework: A common approach to screening, assessing and managing risk. Wellington, New Zealand: Ministry of Justice.
Summary: This Framework aims to ensure that risks will be identified, assessed and managed consistently across the country for victims and perpetrators. The Framework provides practice values and expected generic practice approaches, including outlining a common understanding of family violence. This is designed to serve as a road map...
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Ministry of Social Development. (2017).
Family violence, sexual violence and violence within whānau: Workforce capability framework. Wellington, New Zealand: Ministry of Social Development.
Summary: This Framework outlines the skills, knowledge and organisational support the workforce needs in order to provide an integrated, consistent and effective response to victims, perpetrators and their families. This framework and the Family violence Risk Assessment and Management Framework (RAMF) were launched at the Family Violence Summit held in Wellington on 7 June 2017...
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Ministry of Social Development. (2017).
Sexual harm crisis support service guidelines: F18. Wellington, New Zealand: Ministry of Social Development.
Summary: These guidelines are for providers who hold a Ministry of Social Development (the Ministry) Outcome Agreement to provide sexual harm crisis support services for adults...
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Other reports
Gluckman, P (2017).
Using evidence to inform social policy: The role of citizen-based analytics. A discussion paper
. Auckland, New Zealand: Office of the Prime Minister's Chief Science Advisor.
Summary
: This paper considers both the considerable opportunities and the issues associated with using individual-level data and citizen-based analytics to inform social policy development and implementation...
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Government response to the Productivity Commission report on More Effective Social Services. (2017).
Wellington, New Zealand: The Treasury & State Services Commission.
Summary; In May 2017 Treasury and the State Services Commission released two documents, this Government response report and another report responding to specific recommendations made in the original report...
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Government responses to recommendations
Keddell, E. (2017).
The Child, Youth and Family Review: A commentary on prevention. Auckland, New Zealand: The Policy Observatory, Auckland University of Technology.
Summary: This report focuses on one aspect of the recent reforms: the prevention of child abuse and neglect. Keddell highlights the points of tension between the way that child abuse is defined throughout the review process, the details of the proposed reforms, and the design of child protection systems....
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Office of Film and Literature Classification. (2017).
Young New Zealanders viewing sexual violence - stage 3 research report: Interviews with young New Zealanders. Wellington, New Zealand: Office of Film and Literature Classification.
Summary: This report is the third and final component of a wider Classification Office research project that seeks to fill the identified gap in current research by giving young New Zealanders, frontline agencies, and sexual violence experts a voice...
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What works briefings from Superu
Superu. (2017).
What works for children exposed to family violence? Wellington, New Zealand: Superu.
Summary: This paper brings together evidence about the best interventions which make a positive difference to the lives of children exposed to family violence. The main highlight of this paper is that the harm caused by family violence exposure is just as harmful as the harm caused by direct abuse...
Conference papers and presentations
Bridgman, G., Dyer, E., O'Hagan, A., & McCarthy. (2017).
Jade speaks up! Test of an insurance approach to the prevention of violence. Paper presented at the Conference of the Aotearoa Community Development Association and the International Community Development Association, Auckland, 15-17 February, 2017.
Summary: This paper explains why ACC is funding Jade Speaks Up, a violence prevention programme targeted at 8 to 11 year olds and which over a 6 -week period teaches children how to keep themselves safe...
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McLachlan, A. (2014).
Intergenerational transmission of gang involvement and incarceration: A review of clinical practice. Powerpoint presentation at Hui Whakapiri 2014: Research aspiration, inspiration, innovation. Auckland, 9 - 10 July 2014.
Summary: Encouraging healing and validating historical trauma...
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Te Atawhai o Te Ao. (2016).
Roadshow 2016: Māori intergenerational trauma and healing [P
owerpoint presentations]
Summary: Four presentations:
- Project overview
- The Whenua, Historical Trauma and Health Outcomes Project
- The Impact of Sexual Violence on Māori Project
- The Health and Wellbeing of Māori Prisoners on Reintegration to the community project
... Read more
Journal articles
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Contact your local library for full text access to articles which are not freely available online.
Coppersmith, Daniel D.L., Nada-Raja, S., & Beautrais, A.L. (2017).
Non-suicidal self-injury and suicide attempts in a New Zealand birth cohort.
Journal of Affective Disorders, Advance online publication, 15 June 2017
Summary: Participants were part of the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study at age 26. Results provide support for a non-suicidal and suicidal self-injury dichotomy. Childhood sexual abuse was associated with both NSSI and suicidal behavior...
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Hepi, M., Foote, J., Finsterwalder, J., o-Hinerangi, M., Carswell, S., & Baker, E. (2017).
An integrative transformative framework to improve engagement in a social service ecosystem: The case of He Waka Tapu.
Journal of Services Marketing, In press
Summary: This study attempts to understand the engagement between an indigenous social service provider and marginalised clients deemed 'hard-to-reach' in order to gain an insight into how to improve the client's engagement and well-being through transformative value co-creation...
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Jülich, S.J., & Thorburn, N. (2017).
Sexual violence and substantive equality: Can restorative justice deliver?
Journal of Human Rights and Social Work, 2(1): 34-44
Summary: The effects of sexual crimes upon victims and the wider community are pervasive and far-reaching, yet conventional attempts to address offending and seek justice for victims have not succeeded...
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Kelly, P., Thompson, J.M.D., Koh, J., & Elder, H. (2017).
Perinatal risk and protective factors for pediatric abusive head trauma: A multicenter case-control study.
Journal of Pediatrics, 2017, In press
Summary: The aim of this study was to examine data routinely available to perinatal healthcare providers, to identify factors associated with the occurrence of abusive head trauma, and to contribute to evidence that could inform targeted prevention programs...
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King, R. (2017).
Digital domestic violence: Are victims of intimate partner cyber harassment sufficiently protected by New Zealand's current legislation?
Victoria University of Wellington Law Review, 48(1): 29-54
Summary: The role of technology in intimate partner violence is becoming increasingly common. Intimate partner cyber harassment is a subset of "digital domestic violence...
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Maxwell, A. (2017).
The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction 1980: The New Zealand courts' approach to the "grave risk" exception for victims of domestic violence.
Victoria University of Wellington Law Review, 48(1): 81-106
Summary: This article explores the current approach by New Zealand courts to the "grave risk" exemption in cases of domestic violence. New Zealand courts, similarly to other jurisdictions, have adopted a narrow approach...
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International
Australian Law Reform Commission. (2017).
Elder abuse - a national legal response: Final report. Sydney, NSW: Australian Law Reform Commission.
ALRC report,131
Summary: The ALRC was asked to consider Commonwealth (Australian) laws and legal frameworks and how they might better protect older persons from misuse or abuse, and safeguard their autonomy. The report includes 43 recommendations for law reform. The overall effect will be to safeguard older people from abuse...
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AWAVA. (207).
Sexual violence: Law reform and access to justice. Issues paper. AWAVA.
Summary: This document builds on AWAVA's work on access to justice and deals mainly with sexual assaults involving adults (not children). The paper is structured as follows: first, the paper surveys background issues relating to sexual assault and the limitations of the criminal justice system, before identifying the reasons for limited reporting to formal authorities...
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Humphreys, C., & Campo, M. (2017).
Fathers who use violence: Options for safe practice where there is ongoing contact with children. Melbourne, Vic: Child Family Community Australia information exchange, Australian Institute of Family Studies.
CFCA paper, no.43, June 2017
Summary: This paper responds to a challenge that has continued to frustrate workers attempting to intervene to support women and children living with domestic and family violence (DFV). The challenge that arises when... Read more
Hegarty, K., Tarzia, L., Rees, S., Fooks, A., Forsdike, K., Woodlock, D., Simpson, L., McCormack, C., & Amanatidis, S. (2017).
Women's Input into a Trauma-informed systems model of care in Health settings (the WITH Study): Final report. Sydney, NSW: ANROWS.
ANROWS Horizons
Summary: Survivors of sexual violence can experience a range of trauma-related mental health problems, and pre-existing mental illness can also increase women's vulnerability to sexual violence. However, although mental health and sexual violence services often see the same women, there is often a lack of communication and cross-referrals between services...
Read more
Also from this project,
ANROWS Compass
Key findings and future directions
Humphreys, C., & Healey, L. (2017).
PAThways and Research In Collaborative Inter-Agency working: Collaborative work across the child protection and specialist domestic and family violence interface: The PATRICIA Project. Final report.
Sydney, NSW: ANROWS.
ANROWS Horizons
Summary : The PATRICIA Project is an action research project focused on the collaborative relationship between specialist community-based domestic and family violence (DFV) support services for women and their children, and statutory child protection (CP) organisations... Read more
Also from this project,
ANROWS Compass
Key findings and future directions
Kaspiew, R. et al. (2017).
Domestic and family violence and parenting: Mixed methods insights into impact and support needs : final report. Sydney, NSW: ANROWS.
ANROWS Horizons
Summary: This program is an extensive mixed method project that examines the impact of inter-parental conflict (IPC) and domestic and family violence (DFV) on parenting and parent-child relationships. It makes a unique contribution by bringing together evidence on a diversity of Australian populations, life-course stages, and experiences of IPC and DFV... Read more
Also from this project, ANROWS Compass
Key findings and future directions
Journal articles
Contact your local library for full text access to articles which are not freely available online.
Loxton, D., Dolia-Gore, X., Anderson, A.E., & Townsend, N. (2017).
Intimate partner violence adversely impacts health over 16 years and across generations: A longitudinal cohort study.
PLOS One, Published 5 June 2017 (Open access)
Summary: The objective of this study was to determine the impact of intimate partner violence on women's mental and physical health over a 16 year period and across three generations. Participants were from the Australian Longitudinal study on Women's Health...
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