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

Historical trauma and whānau violence
Leonie Pihama, Ngaropi Cameron and Rihi Te Nana
New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse, University of Auckland, 2019
NZFVC Issues Paper, no. 15, October 2019
Summary: This issues paper has been developed from two research programmes 'He Kokonga Whare: Māori Intergenerational Trauma and Healing' and 'He Waka Eke Noa: Māori Cultural Frameworks for Violence Prevention and intervention.' As part of a wider family violence programme of work these projects focus broadly on historical trauma, the intergenerational impact of whānau and sexual violence on Māori, and healing pathways... Read more

Recorded webinar available soon

Te Taonga o taku Ngākau: Ancestral knowledge and the wellbeing of tamariki Māori
Leonie Pihama, Naomi Simmonds and Waikaremoana Waitoki
Hamilton, New Zealand: Te Kotahi Research Institute, 2019
Summary: This is a Kaupapa Māori research project that situates the wellbeing of tamariki (Māori children) within the context of well and thriving whānau. The purpose of the research was to consider the frameworks, values and actions for whānau transformation that exist within mātauranga Māori. Importantly, the research seeks to demonstrate the ways in which whānau themselves generate, through purposeful action, wellbeing from within mātauranga and tikanga Māori. This report synthesises the research with a specific view to prioritising the voices, experiences, knowledges and practices of the research community... Read more 

Weaving together knowledge for wellbeing: Trauma informed approaches
Le Va, 2019
Summary: Trauma-informed approaches focus on recognising and validating the trauma experiences of people and their potential to heal despite these experiences. Culture plays an integral role in how we respond to trauma, healing and support. This module complements Le Va's collaborative work with other national centres outlined in the report... Read more

Te Pae Tata - Te Rautaki Māori me te Mahere Mahi: Māori Strategy and Action Plan
Ministry of Social Development, 2019
Summary: Te Pae Tata, the Maori Strategy and Action Plan sets out how the Ministry of Social Development will work to achieve better outcomes for Māori... Read more

Engaging all New Zealanders survey report: Children in New Zealand communities, 2019
Produced by Nielsen on behalf of Oranga Tamariki - Ministry for Children, 2019
Summary: The survey provides information about the attitudes and behaviours of the New Zealand public towards children and young people 'at risk' of not thriving. This survey was a nationwide survey of New Zealand residents aged 18 years and over, using a mix of self completion methods... Read more

A hard place to be: Voices of children and young people in care and protection residences
Office of the Children's Commissioner, 2019
Summary: This report is not a systematic or comprehensive analysis of children and young people's experiences of residences. The Office of the Children's Commissioner heard from children and young people across Aotearoa New Zealand about their experiences in secure care and protection residences. They told OCC what it was like to spend time in the residences and how their experiences affected them. This report is a snapshot of insights from 52 children and young people... Read more

Evaluation of the family violence Integrated Safety Response pilot: Phase II - years 2 & 3: Final report
Elaine Mossman with Nan Wehipeihana and Michael Bealing
Wellington, New Zealand: Joint Venture Business Unit, 2019
Summary: The family violence Integrated Safety Response (ISR) pilot was officially launched in Christchurch on 4 July 2016. A second pilot site (Waikato) came into operation on 25 October 2016. Both sites were initially funded for one year. In early 2017 the government agreed to extend pilot funding for a further two years, to the end of June 2019. This report presents evaluation findings from the second and third year of the pilot... Read more

What's working for Māori: A Kaupapa Māori perspective on the responsiveness of the Integrated Safety Response to Māori. Synthesis evaluation report
Nan Wehipeihana
Wellington, New Zealand: Joint Venture Business Unit, 2019
Summary: The aim of this evaluation is to assess the responsiveness of the ISR model to Māori, and assess how well whānau-centred approaches are integrated within ISR. This report synthesises the findings from two independent Kaupapa Māori evaluations completed in Christchurch and Waikato in 2018... Read more

February 2019 process evaluation of specialist services to respond to sexual harm (summary)
Malatest International, 2019
Summary: Specialist services to respond to sexual harm are a co-ordinated, safe network of services that support people affected by sexual harm by providing information, crisis response, and long-term support. This process evaluation is of Ministry of Social Development (MSD)-funded Specialist Sexual Harm Services for adults... Read more

Health response to family violence: 2018 Violence Intervention Programme evaluation
Jane Koziol-McLain, Moira Howson, Brice Valentin Shun and Nick Garrett
Centre for Interdisciplinary Trauma Research, Auckland University of Technology, 2019
CITR report, 2019, no. 17
Summary: The Ministry of Health (MOH) Violence Intervention Programme (VIP) seeks to reduce and prevent the health impacts of family violence and abuse through early identification, assessment and referral of victims presenting to designated District Health Board (DHB) services. The Ministry of Health-funded national resources support a comprehensive, systems approach to addressing family violence, particularly intimate partner violence (IPV) and child abuse and neglect (CAN). This report documents three VIP evaluation work streams... Read more

Journal articles

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Dignity, diversity, and resistance: A bicultural, community-led approach to transforming social responses to domestic violence in Aotearoa New Zealand
Mandy Morgan and Tony Mattson
Australian Community Psychologist, 2018, 29(2): 5-22
Summary: Social problems of domestic violence have been a focus of community and Government attention in Aotearoa New Zealand for over four decades. This article presents early research findings in a community-based social change project that focuses on acts of resistance to interpersonal violence. The praxis of the  Tü Mai Awa project is informed by interweaving Māori protocols, principles, and values, with principles of Response-Based Practice... Read more

Custody stalking: A mechanism for coercively controlling mothers following separation
Vivienne Elizabeth - Springer, 2017
Feminist Legal Studies, 2017, 25: 185-201
Summary: This paper adds to our understandings of women's post-separation experiences of coercive control through the introduction of a new concept-custody stalking. It is defined as a malevolent course of conduct involving fathers' use of custody and/or child protection proceedings to overturn historic patterns of care for children. The experience of custody stalking is explored through three composite narratives derived from twelve mothers who participated in an exploratory, qualitative study on the involuntary loss of maternal care time following separation... Read more

Putting victims at the heart of the criminal justice system
Kim McGregor
Practice: the New Zealand Corrections Journal, 2019, 7(1)
Summary: In this article Kim McGregor describes her role as the Chief Victims Advisor to Government, the ongoing struggle to put victims at the heart of the criminal justice system, the importance of the Victims' Rights Act (2002) and the Victims' Code (2015) and how we can improve systems and communications to victims... Read more