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Issue 77
August 2018
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News, views and happenings in brief: 
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Tip of the month  
Focus on wellbeing
A number of organisations are focusing on understanding and improving wellbeing in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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
   
Families and whānau status report 2018.
Wellington, New Zealand: Ministry of Social Development, 2018
Summary: This report is the sixth in a series of Families and Whānau Status Reports. These provide an annual account of key research from our Families and Whānau Wellbeing work programme.
An overarching theme emerging from the ongoing development of the families and whānau work programme is: to grow our understanding and capability in working between both Western science and te ao Māori world views... Read more 

Building blocks: Building the foundation for implementing the Children's Convention in Aotearoa UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Monitoring Group.
Wellington, New Zealand: Office of the Children's Commissioner, 2018
Summary: This is the first of a series of thematic reports prepared by the Children's Convention Monitoring Group prior to New Zealand's next review by the Committee in 2021. The Committee last reviewed New Zealand in 2016 and made 105 recommendations to improve the rights of children in Aotearoa. This report focuses on the steps required to enable the implementation of the Children's Convention... Read more
 
Evaluation of Jigsaw Whanganui's White Water Years parenting programme
Cvitanovic, L., Potaka-Osborne, G., & Gifford, H.
Whanganui, New Zealand: Whakauae Māori Health Research and Development, 2014
Summary: This report presents the results of a small scale process and outcomes evaluation of Jigsaw Whanganui's White Water Years Parenting Programme carried out during 2014... Read more  
 
From complexity to collaboration: Creating the New Zealand we want for ourselves, and enabling future generations to do the same for themselves
Eppel, E., Provoost, D., & Karacaoglu, G.
Working paper, 18/01, 2018
Wellington, New Zealand: Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, 2018
Summary: The purpose of this paper is to change how we approach public policy and implementation for complex problems such as child poverty.
The authors propose a principles-based policy framework for complex social problems such child poverty. This approach will do more than embellish existing policy. It will help ensure that the intent of policy is realised, through a shared and explicit understanding and a commitment to achieving significant improvements. The government needs to rethink its various roles and consider how it enables local communities to be more transformative for children, their families, whānau and communities... Read more 
 
Peer support practice guidelines (including organisational quality standards for the provision of support services for male survivors of sexual violence)
Male Survivors Aotearoa, 2018
Summary: There are three distinct sections to this document. First peer support is described (pp1-9), then Peer support practice guidelines are provided (pp10-49. The final section provides the Organisational Quality Standards for the provision of support services for male survivors of sexual violence (pp50-70).... Read more 
 
Report on how White Ribbon New Zealand can align with the #MeToo movement
Baker, G.
White Ribbon Trust, 2018
Summary: The White Ribbon Trust commissioned this report to help align White Ribbon with the #MeToo movement and develop an appropriate response. 
The report outlines a number of recommendations and these have been accepted by the White Ribbon Advisory Committee and by the White Ribbon Campaign Trust that is responsible for White Ribbon in New Zealand... Read more  
 
"Something's got to change": Insights from mothers
Ministry for Women, 2018
Summary: The Ministry for Women interviewed 40 mothers in Whāngarei, South Auckland and Gisborne, to hear in their own words, their experiences of being on a benefit and of the social services they accessed both during pregnancy and with young children. These interviews focused on nutrition, stress levels, parenting skills and the physical environment. At the same time, the Ministry conducted a literature review considering New Zealand and international literature on the experiences of younger mothers, their perceptions of the issues they face as well as their views on what would work best to improve their situation. Read more 
Mothers and their babies: Women's experiences. Literature review  
 
Theses
Motherhood and family law 
Mackenzie, F.
PhD thesis, University of Otago, 2016
Summary : Throughout the broad sweep of history and related disciplines, including the law, can be found instruction with respect to the issue of motherhood. In one sense, it transcends culture; in another, it is a cultural construct. It is imbued with gender specificity and is profoundly important to children. This thesis explores motherhood's relationship with family law and seeks to illustrate how, through uneasy tensions over time, it may have been compromised in modern 
child care law in New Zealand... Read more 
 
Young people's experience of post-separation fathering when the father has been violent to the mother
Nelson, P.
PhD thesis, Victoria University of Wellington  2017
Summary: The author's intention in undertaking this research was to examine young people's experiences of living with their father following parental separation where their father has been violent to their mother. To date there is little knowledge of children's post-separation experiences of fathering or of the parenting abilities of partner abusive men... Read more 
 
 
More papers on the Living Standards Framework (New Zealand Treasury)
Treasury Living Standards Dashboard: Monitoring intergenerational wellbeing
Smith, C. Kōtātā Insight
Wellington: New Zealand Treasury, 2018
Summary: The vision of the New Zealand Treasury is to promote higher living standards for all New Zealanders. To support this, the Treasury uses the Living Standards Framework to guide its policy advice. This report develops a proposed Living Standards Dashboard to support the application of the Living Standards Framework to policy issues. In particular, it sets out a view of the economics underpinning the Living Standards Framework and outlines an agenda for applying the Living Standards Framework to inform Treasury's policy analysis... Read more 
 
Resilience and future wellbeing: The start of a conversation on improving the risk management and resilience of the Living Standards Capitals
Frieling, M. & Warren, K.
Living Standards Series: Discussion Paper, 18/05, July 2018
Wellington: New Zealand Treasury, 2018
Summary: The decentralised and siloed nature of much of New Zealand's risk management means that insufficient attention is paid to the interconnectedness and cascading nature of risk factors. A more proactive, coordinated and evidence-based approach to risk management and resilience building is required to maintain societal resilience and sustainability in the face of the complex risks we are facing domestically and globally... Read more

The relationship between the Living Standards Framework and the Sustainable Development Goals Ormsby, J.
Living Standards Series: Discussion Paper:18/06, July 2018
Wellington, New Zealand: New Zealand Treasury, 2018
Summary: Those familiar with both the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Treasury's Living Standards Framework (LSF) have often asked us what the relationship is between the two. This paper, drawing on work done by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), provides an answer to that question... Read more
 

The start of a conversation on the value of New Zealand's financial/physical capital
Janssen, J.
Living Standards Series: Discussion Paper:18/07, July 2018
Wellington: New Zealand Treasury, 2018
Summary: This discussion paper adds to the set of Living Standards Discussion Papers released in February 2018... Read more 
 
Note on future work on the role of culture in the Treasury's Living Standards Framework
Frieling, M. 
Living Standards Series: Discussion Paper: 18/08, July 2018
Wellington: New Zealand Treasury, 2018
Summary: Wellbeing is closely linked to culture. A common question with regard to the LSF is therefore where culture fits within the framework. These components of culture may be considered within two areas... Read more

A Pacific perspective on the Living Standards Framework and wellbeing
Thomsen, S., & Tavita, J.
Living Standards Series: Discussion Paper, 18/09, August 2018
Wellington: New Zealand Treasury, 2018
Summary: This paper has been prepared by the Treasury recognising the growing influence and impact of the Pacific diaspora and intergenerational population on the New Zealand economy and on New Zealand's place in the wider Pacific region... Read more 
 
Further discussion of wellbeing is provided in
State of the State 2018
Articles and podcasts continue to be added to this series produced by Deloitte in partnership with Victoria University of Wellington's School of Governance. 
 
Journal articles
Contact your local library for full text access to articles which are not freely available online.
 
Adapting a person-centred planning tool for collecting qualitative data on an Indigenous research project
Potaka-Osborne, G., & Gifford, H. 
Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing: Te Mauri - Pimatisiwin
, 2018, 3(1): 57-68 
Summary : Planning Alternative Tomorrows with Hope (PATH) is a person-centred planning (PCP) tool that draws on visual imagery. Originally used to assist individuals with disabilities to plan for the future, PATH aims to "unlock" the imagination freeing people to better picture a positive future whilst remaining grounded in the present. PATH has since been further developed by Indigenous communities to facilitate strategic planning; more recently being adapted for use in a Kaupapa Māori context, working with whānau (families), hap ü  (subtribes), and iwi (tribes)... Read more  

E tipu E rea: The care and protection of indigenous (Māori) children
Boulton, A., Potaka-Osborne, G., Cvitanovic, L, & Williams Blyth, T.
New Zealand Law Journal, 2018, 3
Summary: The Care & Protection of our Māori Children, our Future: A Whānau Perspective study was a qualitative study undertaken in two regions of New Zealand, the Waikato and the Bay of Plenty. The study involved a series of in-depth interviews with Māori parents and grandparents with experience of State intervention in the care of their children or grandchildren... Read more 
 
Whānau Ora; He Whakaaro Ā Whānau: Māori family views of family wellbeing
Boulton, A.F., & Gifford, H. H.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, 2014, 5(1)
Summary: This article presents the findings from two studies that investigated the concept of whānau ora (family wellbeing): One examined the nature of resilience for Māori whānau and how resilience relates to whānau ora; while the second investigated the impact of the Working for Families policy on Māori families' perceptions of whānau ora... Read more 
 
Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Children: Where have we come from, where are we now and where to from here?
Henaghan, M.
International Journal of Children's Rights, 2017, 25(2): 537-552
Summary: This article examines the context surrounding the creation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Children, focusing primarily on Article 12, and explains the importance of children having a voice in all matters affecting them. An analysis of the application of Article 12 in the New Zealand courts demonstrates that more work is required to ensure children are full participants in the judicial process, especially considering the ways children's rights and voices have been unduly constrained by the new Family Dispute Resolution process introduced in 2014... Read more 
 
Child participation: Overcoming disparity between New Zealand's Family Court and out-of-court dispute resolution processes
Taylor, N.
International Journal of Children's Rights, 2017, 25(3-4): 658-671
Summary: This article considers children's right to participate in the context of private law disputes concerning their post-separation, day-to-day care and contact arrangements. In New Zealand the approach to ascertaining children's views has been both long-standing and systematic for contested proceedings within the Family Court (via children's legal representatives and judicial meetings with children). However, major reform of the family justice system in 2014 shifted the emphasis to new out-of-court processes for resolving post-separation parenting arrangements. The reforms were disappointingly silent on the issue of children's participation in the new Family Dispute Resolution services, particularly mediation... Read more  
 
International models of child participation in family law proceedings following parental separation / divorce
Taylor, N., Fitzgerald, R., Morag, T., Bajpai, A., & Graham, A.
International Journal of Children's Rights, 2012, 20(4): 645-673 

Summary: This article reports on the findings of a 2009 survey conducted under the auspices of the Childwatch International Research Network about how children's participation rights, as set out in Articles 12 and 13 of the UNCRC, are respected in private family law proceedings internationally... Read more 

International
A future without violence: Quality, safeguarding and oversight to prevent and address violence against people with disability in institutional settings
Sydney, NSW: Australian Human Rights Commission, 2018
Summary: This report outlines the Commission's findings and recommendations on the ways in which quality, safeguarding and oversight mechanisms that prevent and address violence against people with disability in institutional settings can be strengthened. The findings are based on evidence drawn from national consultations undertaken by the Commission with government, disabled people's organisations, disability advocacy organisations, industry and academia... Read more 
 
Change the course: National report on sexual assault and sexual harassment at Australian universities
Sydney, NSW: Australian Human Rights Commission, 2017
Summary: At the request of Australia's 39 universities, the Australian Human Rights Commission has conducted a national, independent survey of university students to gain greater insight into the nature, prevalence and reporting of sexual assault and sexual harassment at Australian universities. The news item on the website includes a video made at the launch of the report and infographics... Read more 
 
Guidelines for university responses to sexual assault and sexual harassment
Deakin, ACT: Universities Australia, 2018
Summary: Universities Australia developed the guidelines in close consultation with violence prevention and response experts, students and advocates. 
They form part of the Universities Australia 10-point Action Plan and the Respect. Now. Always. Initiative... Read more
 
Children and young people in separated families: Family law system experiences and needs. Final report
Carson, R., Dunstan, E., Dunstan, J., & Roopani, D.
Melbourne, Vic: Australian Institute of Family Studies, 2018
Summary: This report sets out findings from the Children and Young People in Separated Families: Family Law System Experiences and Needs project, a qualitative study commissioned and funded by the Australian Government Attorney-General's Department (AGD). This study aimed to investigate the experiences and needs of young people whose parents had separated and had accessed the family law system... Read more 


Direct cross-examination in family law matters: Incidence and context of direct cross-examination involving self-represented litigants
Carson, R., Qu, L., de Maio, J., & Roopani, D.
Melbourne, Vic: Australian Institute of Family Studies, 2018
Summary: This report sets out findings from the Direct Cross-examination in Family Law Matters project, which was commissioned and funded by the Australian Government, Attorney-General's Department. The project explores quantitative and qualitative data relevant to direct cross-examination involving self-represented litigants in family law matters, derived from court files and audio and transcripts of proceedings, collected from the Family Court of Australia (FCoA) and the Federal Circuit Court of Australia (FCCoA), together with an analysis of relevant unreported judgments of the Family Court of Western Australia (FCoWA)... Read more
 
Primary prevention of family violence against people from LGBTI communities: An analysis of existing research
Lay, Y.
Melbourne, Vic: Our Watch, 2017
Summary: This research project has been commissioned by the Victorian government in response to needs identified by the Royal Commission into Family Violence. Recognising the significant gaps in research and knowledge with respect to family violence against people from lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender diverse, and intersex (LGBTI) communities, this research specifically focuses on the prevention of family violence against LGBTI people... Read more  

Journal articles 
Contact your local library for full text access to articles which are not freely available online.

Cultural factors in the treatment of battered women with privilege: Domestic violence in the lives of white European-American, middle-class, heterosexual women
Berg, K.K.
Affilia, 2014, 29(2) 142-152
Summary: The field of social work pathologizes marginalized cultures by neglecting to explicitly identify cultural factors in the lives of women with systemic privilege due to race, class, and sexual orientation. This article discusses the importance of examining privilege as a strategy for advancing cultural competency in the treatment of battered women. Cultural factors in the lives of White European-American, middle-class, heterosexual women in intimate partnerships with men who share their privileges, referred to as "dominant culture women," are explored... Read more 

Work and intimate partner violence: Powerful role of work in the empowerment process for middle-class women in abusive relationships
Kumar, S. & Casey, A.
Community, Work & Family, Advance online publication, 7 September 2017
Summary: Because middle-class women do not report intimate partner violence (IPV) due to social stigma, few interventions address their problems. In addition, there is a dearth of literature on the role of paid work in middle-class women's lives, as prior studies have focused on several ways IPV hinders women's work and job performance. This hermeneutic phenomenology study reveals that 10 middle-class women did not consciously enter into an empowerment process at work but experienced empowerment while performing job responsibilities... Read more  
 
Escaping oppositional thinking in the teaching of pleasure and danger in sexuality education
Cameron-Lewis, V.
Gender and Education, 2016, 28(4): 491-509
Summary: Sexuality education and preventative sexual abuse education are often taught as separate subjects in secondary schools. This paper extends the argument against this separation by highlighting flaws in the logic that manifests this separation... Read more 

H earing children's voices? Including children's perspectives on their experiences of domestic violence in welfare reports prepared for the English courts in private family law proceedings
Macdonald, G.S.
Child Abuse & Neglect, 2017, 65: 1-13
Summary: This research examined Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) reports prepared for private family court proceedings in domestic violence cases in England. The research found that in cases where children's accounts identified them as victims of violence, these disclosures regularly disappeared from report recommendations. Particular discourses regarding 'child welfare' and 'contact' were identified, which routinely impacted on the ways in which children's voices were taken into account... Read more  

A longitudinal examination of mothers' depression and PTSD symptoms as Impacted by partner-abusive men's harm to their children
Rivera, E.A., Sullivan, C.M., Zeoli, A.M., & Bybee, D.
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2018, 33(18),: 2779-2801
Summary: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious and widespread form of gender-based violence that disproportionately affects women. It is well established that IPV victimization contributes to depression and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and that many partner-abusive men continue to perpetuate abuse even after their relationship with the victim ends. In addition, when men harm their partners, they are more likely to harm their children, and evidence suggests that this harm continues post-separation. However, scant research has been conducted on men's harm to their children as an extension of IPV perpetration, with even less known about the mental health impact this form of abuse has on mothers... Read more  

Suiga/Change: An ethnodrama exploring challenges in intimate relationships with young people in Samoa
Heard, E., Fitzgerald, L., Va'ai, S., Collins, F., & Mutch, A.
Violence Against Women, Advance online publication, 2 July 2018
Summary: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a significant global issue and there is an immediate need to strengthen knowledge and support innovative action, particularly with young people and people in diverse cultural settings. This ethnodrama provides insights into the way young people in Samoa, a Pacific Island nation reporting high rates of IPV, experience and perceive IPV and challenges within intimate relationships... Read more 
In the news
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News

ACC commits $18.4m to healthy relationships education in schools, tender open - 27 Aug, 2018
ACC has committed $18.4 million to making the Mates & Dates healthy...

Pilots for support of sexual violence survivors in criminal justice system - 27 Aug, 2018
Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni announced a new pilot to support ...

New research reports on addressing family violence in Pacific communities - 21 Aug, 2018
Reports have been published from four research projects exploring addressing...

Ministry of Justice seeking feedback on family violence resources - 21 Aug, 2018
The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) is seeking feedback on two family violence...

Family and sexual violence service provider update - MSD, August 2018 - 21 Aug, 2018
The Ministry of Social Development's (MSD) latest email update for family and...

ACC provides additional funding for Gandhi Nivas facilities for men who use violence - 20 Aug, 2018
ACC has provided Gandhi Nivas with an additional $1.7m in funding over three...

Legislation seeking to prevent forced marriage passes - 13 Aug, 2018
The Minors (Court Consent to Relationships) Legislation Bill has passed its...

Stats NZ consulting on well-being indicators - 13 Aug, 2018
Statistics New Zealand is seeking public feedback about indicators to measure...

Consultation on information sharing guidance for family violence sector - 7 Aug, 2018
The Ministry of Justice is seeking feedback on draft information sharing...

Government announces panel to review 2014 Family Court Reforms - 2 Aug, 2018
Justice Minister Andrew Little has announced the details of the independent...

Legislation on workplace protections for domestic violence victims passes - 30 Jul, 2018
The Domestic Violence-Victims' Protection Bill has passed its third reading and...
Events 
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recently added events

Dates throughout the year 
Child Matters & Oranga Tamariki. Free seminars 
Locations throughout Aotearoa. See website for details.
 
28 August 2018 *NEW*
Community Research Webinar 
 
31 August - 1 September 2018 *NEW*
National Council of Women New Zealand Conference 2018 
Auckland
 
4 September 2018 *NEW*
Safeguarding Children seminar 
Wellington 
 
4 September 2018 
Shine Introductory Training 
Auckland
 
5 - 7 September 2018 *UPDATED* 
Third International Conference on Wellbeing & Public Policy
Wellington
 
6 September 2018 *NEW*
WIFT NZ 
Wellington 
 
6 - 7 September 2018 
Pre-Summit training for law enforcement personnel only
5 September 2018.
Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
 
10 - 12 September 2018 
Auckland

12 September 2018 *NEW*
CPAG Summit 2018
Wellington
 
13 - 14 September 2018 
Wellington 
 
21 - 23 September 2018 *UPDATED*
2018 Women's Studies Association / Pae Akoranga Wāhine Conference 
Wellington 
 
18 - 21 September 2018 *UPDATED*
Melbourne, Australia
Registration closed, course full 
 
26 - 28 September 2018 
Nursing Network on Violence Against Women International 22nd Conference 
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada
 
27 - 28 September 2018 *NEW*
Hosted by Eastern Refuge Society  
Auckland 
 
4 - 5 October 2018 *NEW*
Auckland 
Save the date 
 
10 - 11 October 2018 *UPDATED*
Co-hosted by Netsafe and the Australian Office of the eSafety Commissioner
Auckland
 
15 - 16 October 2018 
Training workshop
Dunedin
 
15 October 2018 *NEW*
Child Protection Level 1
Safeguarding Children seminar
Christchurch

16 October 2018 *NEW*
Advanced Child Protection Workshop:
Safeguarding Children and young people
Christchurch 
 
16 - 17 October 2018 
Shine Advanced Training 
Auckland

18 - 19 October 2018 
Training workshop
Christchurch 
 
21 - 24 October 2018 
Toronto, Canada
 
24 - 25 October 2018 *NEW*
Wellington 
 
24 - 25 October 2018 
Conference 
Wellington 
 
29 - 30 October 2018 *UPDATED*
Auckland
 
31 October 2018 *NEW*
Symposium 
Auckland 
 
5 - 7 November 2018  
Safety 2018 - The 13th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion 
Bangkok, Thailand

13 - 16 November 2018  
2018 International Indigenous Research Conference 
Hosted by Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga 
Tāmaki Makaurau | Auckland
 
20 - 21 November 2018 
International Domestic Violence & Health Conference: Sustainable Change in the Health Sector 
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
 
25 November 2018 *NEW*
White Ribbon Day 
Events around Aotearoa New Zealand throughout November
 
2019
 
16 - 20 January 2019 
SSWR 2019 Annual Conference 
San Francisco, CA, United States
Save the date
 
5 - 6 February 2019 *NEW*
Melbourne, Australia 
 
22 - 24 April 2019 *UPDATED*
International Conference on Sexual Assault, Intimate Partner Violence, and Increasing Access
EVAWI 2019 conference 
San Diego, California, United States 
Save the date. Registration opens 3 September 2018
 
16 - 19 September 2019  
SVRI Forum 2019 
Cape Town, South Africa 
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