NZFVC Quick Reads: 3 December 2024

NZFVC Quick Reads: 3 December 2024

Welcome to our Quick Reads format. Each week we share selected news bites relevant to family violence and sexual violence in Aotearoa. See all past NZFVC Quick reads.

Three new research briefs on risk from Women’s Refuge

Women’s Refuge have published 3 new briefs from their Safer When, Safer How research exploring family violence risk and safety:

• Part 1: Refuge and ‘Risk’ (2024);
• Part 2: Asking about risk (2024); and
• Part 3: Acting on risk information (2024).

These build on their previous 2 briefs, Family violence and technology (2024) and Family violence and suicide (2024), and their analysis on What Refuge risk data tells us about the spread of family violence in clients’ live (2024).

New report from Gender Minorities Aotearoa, As If I Were a Human Being (2024)

Gender Minorities Aotearoa (GMA), a national transgender organisation, has published a new report: As If I Were a Human Being: Sexual violence, family violence and transgender people: a literature review/meta-analysis (2024). GMA reviewed 45 resources from Aotearoa and 57 international resources looking at their relevance to transgender people.

New online family violence training from ANZASW 

Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers | Te Rōpū Tauwhiro i Aotearoa (ANZASW) have been added to our list of training providers. They offer free online family violence training to anyone working with family or whānau impacted by violence. Applications are not restricted to ANZASW members. The training consists of 2 self-directed e-learning courses: Dynamics of family violence and Risk awareness and response. The training includes modules on Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the impacts of colonisation and racism. The training was developed by ANZASW with funding from Te Puna Aonui and support from an expert advisory rōpū.

New report from Mana Mokopuna, “A place to talk peacefully” (2024)

Mana Mokpuna | Children and Young People’s Commission have published a new report: “A place to talk peacefully”: Mokopuna voices on healing from family violence and sexual violence in Aotearoa (2024). The report shares the voices of children and young people on what helped and hindered them when accessing support after experiencing family violence and sexual violence. Mana Mokopuna have also published a report on what children and young people said they needed to live a good life: “You need to get in early, as soon as you see people struggling”: Understanding the life-course journey (2024).

New Child and Youth Strategy 2024-2027

The Government has released The Child and Youth Strategy 2024-2027 (2024). The Strategy provides a picture of what the Government is currently doing to improve the wellbeing of children and young people, what new actions they plan to undertake, and the measures they will use to track progress. The Strategy also outlines the Social Investment approach the Government plans to take.