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We celebrate Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori with Our Tip of the Month, and there are a number of reports and articles in this Pānui which address family and whānau violence prevention issues in a Māori context. Historical and inter-generational trauma which impacts the lives of indigenous peoples throughout the world are also included in the International section.
Mālō e lelei! Tongan Language Week / Uike Kātoanga'i 'o e Lea Faka-Tonga is also celebrated in September. The theme of the week is 'Fakakoloa Aotearoa 'Aki 'Ae Nofo 'A Kainga' - Enriching Aotearoa with our Family Values.
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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
The Backbone Collective. (2017).
Out of the frying pan and into the fire: Women's experiences of the New Zealand Family Court. The Backbone Collective.
Summary: The Family Court is a critical part of the response system that women may rely on following separation for protection and further safety. The women who participated in this survey reported serious negative outcomes from being involved with the New Zealand Family Court...
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Gilmour, K., & Holzke, J. (2017).
Bibliography: Social work pertaining to Māori in New Zealand: Ngā Mahi Toko I Te Ora O Te Iwi Māori: 1990-2017. University of Canterbury & University of Auckland.
Summary: Subject Librarians for the fields of Counselling, Human Services and Social Work are often asked for help with searching for literature related to social work with Māori clients and bicultural social work practice. This bibliography is an attempt to bring together research and literature of interest to social work professionals working with Māori in New Zealand...
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Horwood, L.J., Egan, J., Waddingham, J., & Fergusson, D.M. (2017).
Early Start: Incredible Years Toddler Programme evaluation. Christchurch, New Zealand: Early Start Project
Summary: In 2012 Early Start implemented the Incredible Years Toddler (IYT) parenting programme as an adjunct to the Early Start service to assist families experiencing severe parenting difficulties. This report uses data gathered in the context of six IYT courses...
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McKegg, K., Wepeihana, N., & Pipi, K. (2016).
The evaluation capacity building project: Developing an evaluation capacity assessment tool and process for New Zealand NGOs. Wellington, New Zealand: Superu.
Summary: This Evaluation Capacity Building (ECB) project (the project) is one of several funded by Superu to help position non-government organisations (NGOs) to grow and increase their evaluation culture, capacity and evidence base so they can improve their ability to demonstrate the impact their programmes and services are having for their clients, whānau and communities...
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Minister for Children. (2017).
Progress in implementing the new vulnerable children operating model. Cabinet paper released by Anne Tolley.
Summary: This Cabinet paper is the first official release of information on the progress of the Ministry for Vulnerable Children since its establishment on 1 April 2017. It outlines what has been done in the first three months since the Ministry was established on 1 April 2017.
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Ministerial Group on Family Violence and Sexual Violence. (2017).
Progress of the work programme. Cabinet paper (April 2017).
Summary: This April 2017 update to Cabinet's Social Policy Committee on the work programme of the Ministerial Group on Family Violence and Sexual Violence provides details of progress under each stream of the work programme to that date...
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Morgan, M., & Coombes, L. (2016).
Gandhi Nivas: Developing culturally specific early intervention through community collaboration for men bound by Police Safety Orders in Counties Manukau: Study One: The first year at Gandhi Nivas: A Preliminary Statistical Description (Revised). Massey University, School of Psychology.
Summary: This research concerns the development of a community led project in Otahuhu, Auckland that provides early intervention services to men who have been bound by Police Safety Orders (PSO) in the Counties Manukau...
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Mossman, E., Paulin, J., & Wehipeihana. (2017).
Evaluation of the family violence Integrated Safety Response pilot: Final report. Wellington, New Zealand: Superu.
Summary: The family violence Integrated Safety Response (ISR) pilot is one element of a larger cross-agency work programme overseen by the Ministerial Group on Family Violence and Sexual Violence. Superu commissioned a consortium of three independent evaluators to complete this evaluation...
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New Zealand Government. (2017).
Family Violence Summit 2017: Summary of views from the day and online submissions. Wellington: New Zealand Government.
Summary: A Family Violence Summit was held in Wellington on 7 June 2017. This report summarises the proceedings and responses to the related online survey...
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Niland, P., & Fernando, K. (2016).
Associations of childhood sexual abuse and mental health conditions: Research summary. Wellington, New Zealand: Accident Compensation Corporation.
Summary: The purpose of this document summarises the six ACC commissioned evidence-based reviews investigating the relationship between childhood sexual abuse and mental health conditions and trauma-related responses...
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Opai, K. (2017).
Te Reo Hāpai. The language of enrichment: A Māori language glossary for use in the mental health, addiction and disability sectors. Wellington, New Zealand: Te Pou o te Whakaaro Nui.
Summary: This Māori glossary not only provides translations for existing words, it also creates many new words in te reo Māori - for use in the mental health, addiction and disability sectors...
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Superu. (2017).
Families: Universal functions, culturally diverse values. Wellington, New Zealand: Superu.
At a glance, July 2017
Summary: When thinking about the wellbeing of diverse families, it is important to consider the influence of cultural values, as these shape not only who is part of the family unit, but also the overall levels of wellbeing of the family...
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Superu. (2017).
Making sense of evaluation: A handbook for everyone. Wellington, New Zealand: Superu.
Summary: This handbook is primarily designed for people funding or purchasing social services, and providers of social services in New Zealand who need to understand more about how to measure and understand the effects of their programmes or initiatives...
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Te Puni Kōkiri. (2017).
Whānau Ora annual summary report: 1 July 2015 - 30 June 2016. Wellington, New Zealand: Te Puni Kōkiri.
Summary: This report describes the way Whānau Ora was delivered in 2015/16 and the results achieved. As 2015/16 was the second year of commissioning, results at a whānau level can be identified and the wider activities of Commissioning Agencies can be considered...
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Annual summary report 2014/15
Te Puni Kōkiri. (2016).
Formative evaluation of the Whānau Ora commissioning agency model: An independent evaluation. Wellington, New Zealand: Te Puni Kōkiri
Summary: The aim of the formative evaluation is to examine how well the Whānau Ora commissioning model is working across the three agencies...
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Thursdays in Black. (2017).
"In our own words": Student experiences of sexual violence prior to and during tertiary education.
Thursdays in Black student survey 2016.
Summary: The Thursdays in Black Students' Survey 2016 was open to people who had been enrolled at a New Zealand tertiary education institute within the previous five years. The survey was open between September and October of 2016...
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Journal articles
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Carlson, T., & Moewaka Barnes, H. (2017).
Kaupapa Māori evaluation: A collaborative journey.
Evaluation Matters He Taka Tō Aromatawai, 2017, 3: 67-99
Summary: The interpretation and practice of kaupapa Māori evaluation (KME) take many forms, each involving its own set of considerations, challenges and outcomes. This paper explores the complexities involved in a collaborative journey through an evaluation project where KME was a guiding principle, highlighting its successes and challenges...
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Cooke, A. (2015).
The Children, Young Persons, and Their Family Act and Māori children.
New Zealand Family Law Journal, 2015, 8(7): 121-132
Summary: Any consideration of the issue of State intervention by the Chief Executive of the Ministry of Social Development (through CYF, now Oranga Tamariki) into the lives of families and children is particularly pertinent in respect of Māori children. This article looks at the role of the State in respect of those Māori children who are in care and will not be returned home to their families of birth of origin. This article addresses this because of the specific paradigm within which Māori see children, families and related concepts...
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Dijkstra, S., & Verhoeven, W. (2015).
Post-divorce parenting and fatal violence: Separate worlds and tense relations.
Social Work Now, 2015, 52: 13-19
Summary: In this article the authors examine a case from The Netherlands where a father murdered his sons and committed suicide in the context of a high conflict separation. The authors draw lessons from the findings of the enquiry...
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Gear, C., Eppel, E., & Koziol-McLain, J. (2017).
Utilizing complexity theory to explore sustainable responses to intimate partner violence in health care.
Public Management Review, Advance online publication, 14 August 2017
Summary: Implementing effective and sustainable health care responses to intimate partner violence (IPV) is a complex public health problem internationally. Increasingly scholars are recognizing that research methods which explore health-system responses to IPV obscure the complexity of the problem. This paper discusses the use of complexity theory for researching sustainable responses to IPV within New Zealand primary health care...
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Jury, A., Thorburn, N., & Weatherall, R. (2017).
"What's his is his and what's mine is his": Financial power and the economic abuse of women in Aotearoa.
Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 29(2): 69-82 (Open access)
Summary: This study aimed to understand the experiences and effects of economic abuse for women in Aotearoa New Zealand, particularly in relation to methods of coercive control, with the intention of developing risk matrices to be used by practitioners...
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Lawson-Te Aho, K. (2017).
The case for re-framing Māori suicide prevention research in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Applying lessons from indigenous suicide prevention research.
Journal of Indigenous Research, 6(1): 1-16
Summary; The aim of this paper is to present a case for reframing Māori suicide prevention research away from a strong emphasis on clinical research towards research that is more self-determining and historically and culturally contextualised. Suicide research in Aotearoa/New Zealand has largely disregarded the potential explanatory power of historical trauma and the inter-generational transfer of collective suffering on Māori...
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McLachlan, A. Levy, M., McClintock, K., & Tauroa, R. (2015).
A literature review: Addressing indigenous parental substance use and child welfare in Aotearoa: A Whānau Ora framework.
Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 14(1): 96-109
Summary: Parental substance use disorders (SUDs) for Māori are considered to be contributors to adverse effects on outcomes for their children. This article offers a review of international and Aotearoa literature in regard to key considerations for Māori parents with SUDs who present to an Alcohol and Drug specialist for assessment and treatment. Factors to increase positive outcomes for Māori children of parents with SUDs are promoted... Read more
Masters-Awatere, B., & Nikora, L.W. (2017).
Indigenous programmes and evaluation: An excluded worldview.
Evaluation Matters He Taka Tō Aromatawai, 3: 40-66
Summary: Worldwide the major influence on evaluation practice has come from the United States of America, dominating the field so much that non-dominant (or indigenous) culturally constructed evaluation frameworks are largely excluded and absent. Within this article the cultural value of whanaungatanga is presented as a source of tension in "by Māori for Māori" externally evaluated health and wellbeing programmes...
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Seaford, A. (2015).
On a carousel: The relationship between family violence research and social work practice.
Social Work Now, 2015, 52: 20-28
Summary: In 2013 the author participated in the Community Internship Programme1 and spent six months working at Aviva Family Violence Services in Christchurch where the author examined national and international family violence-related research. This article explores four areas of that research, including a section which
explores the use of Western based concepts with Mäori and looks at alternative models that have been developed by Mäori practitioners.
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International
Agnew-Pauley, W., & Poynton, S. (2017).
The Domestic Violence Safety Action Tool (DVSAT): Results from the first 12 months implementation. Sydney: NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research.
Bureau Brief, no. 128, June 2017
Summary:
Safer Pathway, a whole-of-government initiative, is one of the elements of the NSW Government's Domestic and Family Violence Framework for Reform. This paper reports on the first 12 months of implementation...
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Australian Women Against Violence Alliance (AWAVA). (2016).
The role of specialist women's services in Australia's response to violence against women and their children
Policy Brief, 7 April 2016
Summary:
Australian governments, ministers and community leaders are voicing stronger commitments than ever before to ending violence against women and their children. But while more and more women are recognising themselves as victims/survivors of violence and seeking help, there is no guarantee that when they come forward they and their families will receive the knowledgeable, competent support they need, which is best provided by specialist women's services. One of AWAVA's key priorities is promoting the role and importance of women's specialist services in preventing and responding to violence against women and their children...
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Dyson, S., Frawley, p., & Robinson, S. (2017).
"Whatever it takes": Access for women with disabilities to domestic and family violence services: Final report.
Sydney, NSW: ANROWS, 2017
ANROWS Horizons, Issue 5, August 201
Summary:
This report aims to help tertiary response services to respond effectively to the needs of women with disabilities. It draws on the experiences of women with disabilities who have experienced violence and abuse and have used tertiary response services...
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Journal articles
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Austin, A.E., Shanahan, M.E., Barrios, Y.V., & Macy, R.J. (2017).
A systematic review of interventions for women parenting in the context of intimate partner violence.
Trauma, Violence & Abuse, Advance online publication, 21 July 2017
Summary: Despite mixed evidence regarding the effect of IPV on women's parenting ability and behaviours, there is an increasing focus on mothering in the context of IPV, particularly among the child welfare and child protection systems. To help respond to this increasing focus, several interventions have been developed that specifically target parenting among IPV-affected women. The authors conducted a systematic review of the literature to examine the approaches and effects of such interventions...
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Dodge, A., & Spencer, D.C. (2017).
Online sexual violence, child pornography or something else entirely? Police responses to non-consensual intimate image sharing among youth.
Social & Legal Studies, Advance online publication, 21 August 2017
Summary: Due to child pornography laws, non-consensual intimate image sharing among youth is subjected to complex legal landscapes in a variety of jurisdictions such as Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Drawing from interviews with members of sex crime-related units in police service organizations from across Canada, this article examines how police conceptions of non-consensual intimate image sharing among youth correspond with and/or diverge from legal and critical understandings...
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Douglas, H. (2017).
Legal systems abuse and coercive control.
Criminology & Criminal Justice, Advance online publication, 22 August 2017
Summary: This article considers how legal engagement can be an opportunity to exercise coercive control over a former intimate partner. Drawing on interviews with 65 women who engaged with the legal system as a result of violence in their intimate relationships, this article explores how women's engagement with the legal system is frequently experienced as an extension of an intimate partner's coercive control...
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Hall, G., Whittle, M., & Field, C. (2016).
Themes in judges' sentencing remarks for male and female domestic murderers
Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 2016, 23(3): 395 - 412
Summary: The aim of this study was to analyse judges' sentencing remarks in cases of domestic murder. In undertaking a qualitative analysis, the methodology of grounded theory was used, and the data emanating from the judges' sentencing remarks identified several major themes as discussed in this article. Broadly speaking, the data reflect that women are viewed more harshly than men and receive higher sentences..
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Hoffart, R., & Jones, N.A. (2017).
Intimate partner violence and intergenerational trauma among indigenous women.
International Criminal Justice Review, Advance online publication, 24 July 2017
Summary: The establishment of the Indian Residential Schools by the Canadian federal government to assimilate indigenous peoples to European and Christian ideals has had generational repercussions on Canada's indigenous peoples. Many emotional, physical, and sexual abuses occurred within these schools resulting in significant trauma within this population. In order to shed light on these impacts, indigenous women were interviewed about their experiences with these schools. The findings add to the existing discourse on IPV in indigenous populations and may be used to inform violence reduction strategies...
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Holter, Ø. G. (2014).
''What's in it for men?' Old question, new data.
Men and Masculinities, 17(5) 515-548
Summary: This article examines the question of what men win or lose by increased gender equality, in terms of well-being and health, combining a new macro data set with existing studies...
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Read, J., Harper, D., Tucker, I., & Kennedy, A. (2017).
Do adult mental health services identify child abuse and neglect? A systematic review.
International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, Advance online publication, 17 August 2017 (Open access)
Summary: Child abuse and neglect play a causal role in many mental health problems. Knowing whether users of mental health services were abused or neglected as children could be considered essential for developing comprehensive formulations and effective treatment plans. In the present study the authors report the findings of a systematic review, designed to discover how often mental health staff find out whether their clients were abused or neglected as children...
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Walker, K., Bowen, E., Brown, S., & Sleath, E. (2017).
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he process of primary desistance from intimate partner violence.
Violence Against Women, Advance online publication, 15 August 2017
Summary: This study examined the interaction between structure and agency for individuals in the first or early phase of primary desistance (1 year offending free) from intimate partner violence (IPV). Narrative accounts of perpetrators, survivors, and IPV program facilitators were analysed...
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New E Tü Whānau resources - 'Our ancestors' - 6 Sep, 2017
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ü Whānau have published a 'Our Ancestors', a series of five resources...
8 Weeks of Humanity campaign starts September 2017 - 5 Sep, 2017
Over the last six months, the Auckland Humanity Project has been collecting and...
Funding for sexual violence training for judges and legal professionals - 4 Sep, 2017
Justice and Courts Minister Amy Adams has announced $1.24 million for new...
UN Racial Discrimination Committee recommends inquiry into abuse in state care - 1 Sep, 2017
The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has...
Cabinet paper and updates on development of MVCOT - 1 Sep, 2017
Minister for Children Anne Tolley has provided updates on the development and...
Corrections launches new strategy for women offenders - 29 Aug, 2017
Corrections Minister Louise Upston has launched a new approach to managing...
Report on Family Violence Summit and Cabinet paper (April 2017) published - 29 Aug, 2017
The Multi Agency Team of the Government's Family and Sexual Violence Work...
Submissions open on Employment (Pay Equity and Equal Pay) Bill - 28 Aug, 2017
Submissions are open on the Government's bill to provide a process for future...
UN Working Group on discrimination against women visits Samoa - 21 Aug, 2017
The United Nations 'Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women...
MSD releases documents related to requiring individual client level data - 21 Aug, 2017
The Ministry of Social Development has released more documents relating to the...
Select Committee reports on Family and Whānau Violence Legislation Bill - 21 Aug, 2017
The Justice and Electoral Committee has released its report on the Family and...
Role of specialist organisations in ending violence against women - 16 Aug, 2017
The Australian Women Against Violence Alliance (AWAVA) has produced a short...
Government announces details of mental health "social investment" package - 14 Aug, 2017
Social Investment Minister Amy Adams and Health Minister Jonathan Coleman have...
ACC partners with NZUSA on sexual violence prevention in tertiary education - 14 Aug, 2017
The Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) has provided $1.4 million for a...
Contract for national sexual violence helpline awarded to Homecare Medical - 14 Aug, 2017
The contract to develop and operate a 24/7 national helpline for people...
New website provides information on sexual assault medical services - 14 Aug, 2017
A new Sexual Assault Assessment and Treatment Service (SAATS) online network...
Evaluation of Integrated Safety Response pilot published - 10 Aug, 2017
The Government has published an evaluation of the Integrated Safety Response...
Media investigates Family Court orders and "disturbing" footage of uplifting children - 8 Aug, 2017
Media outlet Newsroom has investigated children being uplifted by Police to...
Suicide mortality review committee gains ongoing funding - 7 Aug, 2017
Health Minister Jonathan Coleman and Associate Minister Peter Dunne have...
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