Newsletter
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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Tēnā tātou katoa
The Government has launched two new strategies in the last month: the Child and Youth Wellbeing Strategy and Every Life Matters - He Tapu te Oranga o ia tangata: Suicide Prevention Strategy 2019-2019 accompanied by the Suicide Prevention Action Plan 2019-2024 for Aotearoa. A recent article also urges mental health and addiction services to improve their responsiveness to family violence. Other resources in this Pānui focus on the experiences of victims/survivors in the criminal justice system, the sustainability of NGOs, supporting the Rainbow community and continued concerns about cases on the care of children in the context of intimate partner violence. Lastly, our new NZFVC website is coming soon - see below for more information.
NZFVC team @Tāmaki Innovation Campus
University of Auckland.
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This month
We will launch our new NZFVC website in early October!
The content you know will still be there but we hope the way it is organised will make things easier to find and that you enjoy the updated look and feel.
We look forward to your feedback once the site goes live. Please contact us if you need help finding anything on the new site. Email:
info@nzfvc.org.nz
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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
Evaluation of the Sexual Violence Court Pilot
Prepared by Gravitas Research and Strategy Limited for the Ministry of Justice
Wellington, New Zealand: Gravitas Research and Strategy Limited.
Summary: In response to a recommendation in the 2015 Law Commission report, The Justice Response to Victims of Sexual Violence (#4889), the Sexual Violence Court Pilot (SVCP) was created as a judicial initiative to establish best practice for the conduct of Category 3 sexual violence trials, within existing legislation. The aims of the pilot are to reduce delays and improve... Read more
Survey report: Strengthening the Criminal Justice System for victims
Chief Victims Advisor to Government (Kim McGregor)
Wellington, New Zealand: Hāpaitia te Oranga Tangata Safe and Effective Justice, 2019
Summary: The survey was designed to inform the 'Strengthening the Criminal Justice System Workshop' that was hosted in Wellington on 4-5th March 2019. Findings from both the survey and the workshop will provide the Minister of Justice with information about victims' experiences so improvements can be made through the Hāpaitia te Oranga Tangata, Safe and Effective Justice reform programme... Read more
Workshop playback report: Strengthening the Criminal Justice System for Victims
Chief Victims Advisor to Government (Kim McGregor)
Wellington, New Zealand: Hāpaitia te Oranga Tangata Safe and Effective Justice, 2019
Summary: On 4-5 March 2019 the Chief Victims Advisor held the Strengthening the Criminal justice System for Victims workshop. Around 150 victims, victim advocates, academics, lawyers, judges and government officials attended this workshop to discuss how to improve the criminal justice system for victims. This workshop was held as part of the wider Hāpaitia te Oranga Tangata, Safe and Effective Justice reform programme... Read more
Victims' voices: The justice needs and experiences of New Zealand serious crime victims
Petrina Hargrave
Wellington, New Zealand: Victim Support New Zealand, 2019
Summary: In order to ensure victims' voices were heard in the justice reforms, Victim Support conducted in depth interviews with 32 victims of serious crime and explored their experience of procedural justice and what justice meant to them. In the study, 68% of victims felt that justice had not been served in their case, despite 86% of cases resulting in a guilty verdict and 52% in imprisonment of the offender. This research complements the recent findings of the Chief Victims' Advisor... Read more
Information sharing guidance for health professionals from 1 July 2019
Wellington, New Zealand: Ministry of Health, 2019
Summary: This is a practical guide for health professionals to support decision making regarding the sharing of information. From 1 July 2019 new information sharing provisions in the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989 and the Family Violence Act 2018 will enhance sharing of information between agencies...
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Our data - you asked us
Evidence Based Policing Centre, New Zealand Police
Wellington: New Zealand Police, 2019
Summary: This report is based on the most frequent data requests made to New Zealand Police by members of the public under the Official Information Act and is organised according to the largest areas of demand that Police responds to. It presents data for the 2018 calendar year along with some time series. Main topics include family harm, mental health, youth...
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Child and Youth Wellbeing Strategy 2019
Wellington, New Zealand: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, 2019
Summary: This strategy sets out a shared understanding of what children and young people need and want in order to be well, what government is and should be doing to support them, and how we must work together... Read more
Every life matters - He Tapu te Oranga o ia tangata: Suicide Prevention Strategy 2019-2029 and Suicide Prevention Action Plan 2019-2024 for Aotearoa New Zealand
Wellington, New Zealand: Ministry of Health, 2019
Summary: This strategy and action plan describes what we aim to achieve for suicide prevention over the next 10 years. The framework consists of: a vision, setting the long-term aspiration for the strategy and suicide prevention in Aotearoa New Zealand; outcomes sought through the strategy to support the vision...
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Social service system: The funding gap and how to bridge it
Martin Jenkins
Wellington, New Zealand: Social Service Providers Aotearoa, 2019
Summary: Social service providers and philanthropic organisations have a vital role in our social service system. Their contribution to promoting the wellbeing of children, young people, individuals, families and whānau, and communities in Aotearoa should be valued. This research has found that the social service system in New Zealand is not working as well as it could be and that, as a result, providers delivering critical services to those in need are underfunded and over-reliant on the philanthropic sector...
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What is the future for NGO governance?: Research report
Centre for Social Impact and Superdiversity Institute for Law, Policy and Business
Summary: 114,000 non-government organisations (NGOs) operate in New Zealand, generating an estimated $20 billion in annual income. Not only do NGOs represent a sizeable part of our economy and workforce, the services they provide underpin many aspects of our lives. Many of us contribute to NGO boards through helping to develop strategies and secure funding. Few of us have had any training and many of us receive limited support in these roles...
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Whānau ora and imprisonment
Kim Workman
Auckland, New Zealand: Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, 2019
Te Arotahi paper, 03, September 2019
Summary:
This paper calls on government to pay even closer attention to the issues of whānau and whakapapa within the criminal justice system and advocates for the development of a new paradigm of transformative justice based on whānau development that values tino rangatiratanga and tikanga Māori...
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Counting ourselves: The health and wellbeing of trans and non-binary people in Aotearoa New Zealand
Jaimie Veale, Jack Byrne, Kyle Tan, Sam Guy, Ashe Yee, Tāwhanga Nopera and Ryan Bentham
Hamilton, New Zealand: Transgender Health Research Lab, University of Waikato, 2019
Summary: This is the first comprehensive national survey of the health and wellbeing of trans and non-binary people living in Aotearoa New Zealand. The researchers worked with a diverse community advisory group to design the questions. 1,178 people completed the survey. The survey included questions on safety and violence...
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Supporting Aotearoa's rainbow people: A practical guide for mental health professionals
Wellington, New Zealand: Youth Wellbeing Study and RainbowYOUTH, 2019
Summary: This guide is for anyone who provides mental health support in Aotearoa, including (but not limited to) counsellors, psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, tohunga (Māori healers), social workers, mental health nurses, and GPs. It will also be helpful for youth workers, group facilitators...
Webinars
What men can do to prevent sexual violence and how to promote this effectively: Webinar
Garth Baker
TOAH NNEST Tauiwi Prevention Webinar Series, 19 April 2018
Summary: This webinar is on what men can do to prevent sexual violence, taking a primary prevention, population-based focus to preventing intimate partner violence and sexual violence before it occurs by engaging men...
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Strategies for applying te Tiriti o Waitangi within your health practice: Webinar
Heather Came-Friar and Susan da Silva
TOAH NNEST Tauiwi Prevention Webinar Series, 12 July 2018
Summary: This webinar focuses on applying te Tiriti o Waitangi within health practice...
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LGBTQI+ inclusive practice: Webinar
Judy O'Brien and Angelo Libeau
TOAH NNEST Tauiwi Prevention Webinar Series, 4 October 2018.
Summary: This webinar focuses on LGBTQI+ inclusive practice. Areas covered in the webinar include: Underlying concepts and terminology...
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Preventing violence for Pasifika young people: Webinar
Elizabeth Mati, Nalei Taufa, Aiolupotea Mirofora Mataafa Komiti
TOAH NNEST Tauiwi Prevention Webinar Series, 15 August 2019
Summary: This webinar focuses on the work of Le Va and the Atu Mai programme. Three speakers describe the work of Le Va, the development of cultural competencies for workforce training and the development of the Atu Mai Pasifika Research and Evaluation Framework...
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Thesis
Intimate partner violence: A case study of Samoan male perceptions of IPV in New Zealand
Eti Enoka Puni
Thesis: MA in Social Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, 2019
Summary: IPV is an increasing concern in New Zealand for Samoan families. Data has shown that Pasefika people are overrepresented in both statistics for violent crimes and family violence. Much of the research on IPV has been from the female perspective. However, there is little or no data that has explored the male views on IPV. This study explored Samoan males understanding of IPV, factors influencing IPV and how IPV has influenced the quality of family life and relationships...
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Journal articles
Contact your local library for full text access to articles which are not freely available online
Thinking differently: Re-framing family violence responsiveness in the mental health and addictions health care context
Jacqueline Short, Fiona Cram, Michael Roguski, Rachel Smith and Jane Koziol-McLain
International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 2019, Advance online publication
Summary: Aotearoa New Zealand's high rates of intimate partner violence (IPV) and child abuse and neglect point to a clear need to develop and resource equitable mental health and addiction practices that are responsive both to people experiencing and using violence, and to their families. Current responses to IPV in mental health and addiction settings in Aotearoa New Zealand require a critical re-framing,.. Read more
Domestic property violence: A distinct and damaging form of parent abuse
Latesha Murphy-Edwards and Kate van Heugten
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2018, 33(4): 617-636
Summary: This article reports on the qualitative phase of mixed method research conducted in a medium-size city in New Zealand, which examined 14 parents' experiences of child- and youth-perpetrated domestic property violence (DPV)... Read more
To report or not to report? That is the question
Katherine Hall, Emma Donaldson and Martyn Williamson
Journal of Primary Health Care, 2017, 9(4): 244-247
Summary: In New Zealand general practices, we come across adolescents who are sexually active. It is quite clear in New Zealand law that everyone (including minors) who has sexual connection with a young person below the age of 16 years is potentially liable for prosecution and imprisonment. This article discusses the ethical issues for general practitioners using the case study involving a young woman... Read more
Why call someone by what we don't want them to be? The ethics of labeling in forensic/correctional psychology
Gwenda M. Willis
Psychology, Crime & Law, 2018, 24(7): 727-743
Summary: Labeling a person by their past behavior or a criminal conviction is commonplace throughout forensic and correctional psychology. Labels including 'offender' and 'sex offender' infiltrate academic writing and conference presentations, names of professional organizations and treatment programmes and, at times, traverse therapeutic work. That such labels are frequently used and rarely advocated against suggests that helping professionals either (i) don't recognize labeling as an ethical issue, or (ii) don't consider it their role to challenge. The current paper aims to encourage critical reflection on the use of labels in forensic and correctional psychology... Read more
Domestic violence, social security and the couple rule
Lyndal Sleep
Sydney, NSW: Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety, 2019
ANROWS Research report, 04/2019, July 2019
Summary: This research attempts to explore the dynamics between domestic violence, social security payments and the couple rule by examining pre-existing data sets of Administrative Appeal Tribunal (AAT) decisions of couple rule matters and New Zealand Social Security Appeals Authority (NZSSAA) de facto rule decisions. The research will have an intersectional focus on those groups of women prioritised by Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety's (ANROWS) National Research Agenda (2014) as having particular vulnerabilities to violence... Read more
Breaking down the barriers: Findings of the National Commission on Domestic Violence and Multiple Disadvantage
Hilary Armstrong, Gill Morgan, Viv Evans, Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Marai Larasi, Jaswant Narwal and Dominic Williamson
London: AVA & Agenda, 2019
Summary: The Commission was established to evidence the connections between women's experiences of domestic and sexual violence and multiple disadvantage, and to fill a vital gap in the current response to their needs... Read more
The public health harms of pornography. Pornography: A public health crisis
Washington, DC: National Center on Sexual Exploitation, 2018
Summary: This publication highlights how pornography fuels child sexual abuse, compulsive sexual behavior, violence against women, commercial sexual exploitation, and more... Read more
Unseen, unsafe: The underinvestment in ending violence against children in the Pacific and Timor-Leste
Kavitha Suthanthiraraj
Save the Children, 2019
Summary: Violence against children is at endemic levels across Pacific island nations and Timor-Leste. Millions of children experience exceptionally high levels of physical, emotional and sexual violence, as well as neglect. For the vast majority of children, this violence is occurring in a place where they should feel safest: their homes. Through five country-level case studies, this report reveals the stark reality of the magnitude of this violence... Read more
What are ACEs: And how do they relate to toxic stress
Boston, MA: Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University, 2018
Summary: An infographic on frequently asked questions about ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and toxic stress... Read more
'Love is not a passport to Sweden': Intimate partner violence against migrant women and the proliferation of rights' statuses
Halliki Voolma
UN Women, 2018
Discussion paper, no. 24, September 2018
Summary: This paper investigates how women's right to live free from violence operates in the context of insecure immigration status. It is based on qualitative research addressing intimate partner violence against women with insecure immigration status in England and Sweden, analysed within a human rights theoretical framework... Read more
Gender equality and women's rights in the context of child custody and child maintenance: An international comparative analysis
Frances Raday
UN Women, 2019
Discussion paper, no. 30, July 2019
Summary: The division of care and responsibility for children, including financial care, is usually determined by the family law of the State. This study identifies some of the most prevalent custody and child maintenance regimes in cases of divorce, dissolution of a civil union, and separation of parents. It examines the various regimes with particular emphasis on their impact on gender equality and women's rights... Read more
Journal articles
Contact your local library for full text access to articles which are not freely available online
Abusers gaining custody in family courts: A case series of over turned decisions
Joyanna Silberg and Stephanie Dallam
Journal of Child Custody, 2019, 16(2): 140-169
Summary: This article presents findings and recommendations based on an in-depth examination of records from 27 custody cases from across the United States. The goal of this case series was to determine why family courts may place children with a parent that the child alleges abused them rather than with the nonoffending parent. We focused on "turned around cases" involving allegations of child abuse that were at first viewed as false and later judged to be valid... Read more
Beliefs and recommendations regarding child custody and visitation in cases involving domestic violence: A comparison of professionals in different roles
Daniel G. Saunders, Kathleen C. Faller and Richard M. Tolman
Violence Against Women, 2016, 22(6): 722-744
Summary: Research is lacking on differing perspectives regarding custody cases involving domestic violence (DV). In a survey of judges, legal aid attorneys, private attorneys, DV program workers, and child custody evaluators (n = 1,187), judges, private attorneys, and evaluators were more likely to believe that mothers make false DV allegations and alienate their children... Read more
Child custody outcomes in cases involving parental alienation and abuse allegations
Joan S. Meier
GW Law School Public Law and Legal Theory Paper No. 2019-56
GW Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2019-56
Summary: Arguably the most troubling aspect of justice system response to intimate partner violence is custody courts' failure to protect children when mothers allege the father is abusive. Family courts' errors in assessing adult and child abuse, and punitive responses to abuse allegations, have been widely documented. A significant contributor to these errors is the pseudo-scientific theory of parental alienation (PA)... Read more
Properly accounting for domestic violence in child custody cases: An evidence-based analysis and reform proposal
Debra Pogrund Stark, Jessica M. Choplin and Sarah Elizabeth Welland
Michigan Journal of Gender & Law, 2019, 26(1)
Summary: Promoting the best interests of children and protecting their safety and well-being in the context of a divorce or parentage case where domestic violence has been alleged has become highly politicized and highly gendered. There are claims by fathers' rights groups that mothers often falsely accuse fathers of domestic violence to alienate the fathers from their children and to improve their financial position. This Article first presents a literature review, with articulated scientific standards applied to each of the pieces of research cited in this review, on what is happening outside of court and in court relating to domestic violence and best practices for taking domestic violence into account in these child custody cases... Read more
"The system had choked me too": Abused mothers' perceptions of the custody determination process that resulted in negative custody outcomes
Lyndal Khaw, Autumn M. Bermea, Jennifer L. Hardesty, Daniel Saunders and Angela M. Whittaker
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2018, Advance online publication, 30 July 2018
Summary: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a public health problem that continues to affect abused mothers after separation from an abusive partner. In addition to the risk of ongoing control and violence by abusers, the custody determination process may present challenges for mothers who end up with negative custody outcomes (e.g., share custody with abusers or lose custody). Using constructivist grounded theory techniques, we conducted a qualitative analysis of interviews with 24 abused mothers with negative custody outcomes to understand how they perceive and make sense of the process as a whole, and how they cope with these outcomes... Read more
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In the news
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news
New Clearinghouse website coming soon!
- 17 Sep, 2019
In our last survey of New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse (NZFVC) users,...
Ngā Pou Whakaaro | Whānau Listening Posts open in Māori Inquiry into Oranga Tamariki - 17 Sep, 2019
The Māori-led Inquiry into Oranga Tamariki - Ministry for Children is now...
Te Wiki o te Reo Māori - Kia Kaha te Reo Māori! - 10 Sep, 2019
This week, 9-15 Mahuru (September) is Te Wiki o te Reo Māori. The theme for...
Mental health & addiction services urged to improve family violence responsiveness - 5 Sep, 2019
A new article urges mental health and addiction services to reframe the way...
Report finds social service providers significantly underfunded, over-reliant on philanthropy - 3 Sep, 2019
An independent study has found that New Zealand social service providers are...
Government launches Child and Youth Wellbeing Strategy - 29 Aug, 2019
The Government launched its Child and Youth Wellbeing Strategy on 29 August...
Statistics NZ forms Data Ethics Advisory Group - 22 Aug, 2019
In July 2019, Statistics New Zealand announced the launch of a new Data Ethics...
Nominations open for community researcher awards - 22 Aug, 2019
National organisation Community Research is calling for nominations for their ...
Evaluation of sexual violence pilot court; changes to be permanent in Auckland and Whangārei - 19 Aug, 2019
The District Court has released the evaluation report for the sexual violence...
White Ribbon spoken word competition for young people on respectful relationships - 19 Aug, 2019
White Ribbon New Zealand is organising a spoken word competition for rangatahi...
Submissions open on abortion law reform bill - 15 Aug, 2019
Submissions are open on the bill to reform abortion law. This includes changes...
Reports find criminal justice system failing victims/survivors of crime - 8 Aug, 2019
Chief Victims Advisor Dr Kim McGregor has released two reports related to...
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Events
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events
Dates throughout the year
Child Matters & Oranga Tamariki.
Free seminars throughout Aotearoa
More Child Matters training:
- Dynamics of sexual abuse
- Identifying and responding to vulnerability and child abuse
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The impact of family violence on children
5 day training and Diploma block courses
Locations throughout Aotearoa. See website for details
1 October 2019 *NEW*
Auckland
3 October 2019 *NEW*
Community Research Webinar
4 October 2019 *NEW*
Oranga Tamariki Evidence Centre seminar
Wellington
Working with victims & offenders of domestic violence in multiple settings
Shine Advanced Training
Auckland
15 October 2019 *NEW*
Wellington
17 - 18 October 2019 *NEW*
Friendship House Annual Family Harm and Domestic Violence Conference
Auckland
21 - 22 October 2019
SSPA Conference 2019
Cape Town, South Africa
22 October 2019 *NEW*
Auckland
22 October 2019 *NEW*
Safeguarding Children training
Christchurch
23 October 2019 *NEW*
Safeguarding Children training
Christchurch
31 October 2019 *NEW*
Safeguarding Children training
Auckland
5 November 2019 *NEW*
Safeguarding Children training
Hamilton
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
11 November 2019 *NEW*
Wellington
Melbourne, Australia
Auckland
5 December 2019 *NEW*
Followed by
2020
11 February 2020 *NEW*
Followed by
Wellington
Wellington
Call for abstracts closes 31 December 2019
28 - 30 April 2020
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Save the date
28 - 30 April 2020 *NEW*
Save the date
7 May 2020 *NEW*
Followed by
Wellington
Melbourne, Australia
Save the date. Call for abstracts closes 21 October 2019
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