About the New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse

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New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse

Vision
The national centre for all family/whanau violence information

Mission
Making comprehensive, excellent quality family/whanau violence information available.

Organisation

The New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse is a partnership between three non-governmental organisations: the National Collective of Independent Women’s Refuges, Te Kupenga Whakaoti Mahi Patunga/National Network of Stopping Violence Services, Jigsaw, and the Ministry of Social Development.

Te Rito: New Zealand Family Violence Prevention Strategy

The New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse, launched in 2005, is an outcome of "Te Rito: New Zealand Family Violence Prevention Strategy" (2002).  Te Rito was developed by the Family Violence Focus Group in 2002 as a plan of action to reduce and eliminate family violence in Aotearoa New Zealand.

The Strategy provides a framework for 18 Areas of Action to be implemented over a five-year period. The NZFVC is the fulfilment of Action Area 8: Research and evaluation programme, which highlights the need for a mechanism to co-ordinate, collate and disseminate information on family violence.

Resources

Research and Evaluation - The Library
Access to research and evaluation on various aspects of family violence is available via an annotated bibliographic database. There is a range of national and international material, with a focus on New Zealand based information.

Good Practice Database
The Good Practice Database is designed to contribute to better practice by providing a single place to access and share policies, standards and protocols that currently guide family violence work in New Zealand. The Database also provides information about innovative, successful and promising family violence initiatives.

NZFVC Publications
Newsletter: The New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse publishes a regular Newsletter, which can be downloaded from the website. You can receive the NZFVC Newsletter via email by subscribing to the NZFVC mailing list.

Fact Sheets: The New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse produces fact sheets on a range of family violence related topics.

Community Action Toolkit
An updated version of the Community Action Toolkit is now available. This Toolkit has been revised by the Family and Community Services at the Ministry of Social Development with support from ACC. The Toolkit offers information, ideas and inspiration for community groups and collaborations working towards preventing family violence. The Toolkit also contains 40 information sheets.

Current Initiatives
The New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse assists those working in the field to keep informed about current family violence related projects by keeping an up-to-date and comprehensive list of national initiatives being undertaken by government and non-government agencies.

Training
Information is available about training opportunities and career paths in family violence intervention and prevention.

Funding Opportunities
Information is available about funding sources for those wanting to undertake initiatives or research in the area of family violence.

Links
There are links to a number of websites, including New Zealand Government, community organisations, and international agencies, whose work addresses the issue of family violence.

Events
Information and links are available about upcoming events, including conferences, hui, seminars and workshops that address the issues of family violence.

What’s New
This section outlines new additions on the New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse website, including new publications, events, and resources.

NZFVC Staff

The NZFVC staff are based at MSD National Office in Wellington with an Outreach Coordinator based at National Collective of Independent Women’s Refuges in Wellington.

• Information Manager: Philip Worthington
• Outreach Coordinator: Jessica Trask

Logo

The logo used for this website was originally designed for the Te Rito Strategy by Justine Maynard. It depicts a foetus surrounded by whanau, hapu, iwi, communities, significant others and society as a whole.