Specialist domestic violence peer support service being developed in Christchurch


Mon 14 May 2012

Christchurch Women's Refuge has released their report from phase one of developing a Specialist Peer Support Service. Specialist Peer Support ...

Christchurch Women's Refuge has released their report from phase one of developing a Specialist Peer Support Service. Specialist Peer Support will be a service offered by victims and perpetrators who have overcome family violence to those needing support to begin or continue their own journey away from violence.

The first phase involved completing a literature review and conducting in-depth interviews with professionals working in the family violence sector, and focus groups with victims and perpetrators of family violence. The findings from this research will inform the development of the service.

Access the report Peer support: reframing the journey from lived experience of domestic violence via the NZFVC library

Read more in the Christchurch Women's Refuge newsletter The Advocate, Autumn 2012, p. 1.

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