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About Us
Te Kupenga Whakaoti Mahi Patunga / National Network of Family Violence Services is a national body representing a range of specialist family violence services across Aotearoa / New Zealand.
Our member agencies are located within local communities and provide a range of specialist services and programmes to men, women, children, young people, whānau and families impacted by family violence. Help is available for victims/survivors and for those who use, have used or at risk of using family violence.
We are a bicultural organisation based on the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
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Principles, our Kaupapa and Vision and more >>
News and Articles
Supporting perpetrators is the way to help stop family violence
30 June, 2020 Supporting perpetrators of family violence by using trauma-informed, wraparound services has once again shown success in helping to arrest the scourge of family violence. The National Network of Family Violence Services’ general manager, Merran Lawler,...
About Our Organisation
Principles and Values
Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
Acknowledging Māori people as Tangata Whenua and actualising the “partnership intended” by Te Tiriti
Our Kaupapa and Vision
Our shared vision is for an Aotearoa/New Zealand wide family violence prevention and response system which is accountable, effective, sustainable, accessible, and just.
Shared Analysis of Family Violence
All our members respect and work from a space which recognises that: Family violence in Aotearoa / New Zealand is gendered in nature and its victims are, most often, women and children.
Special Responsibility
Te Kupenga Whakaoti Mahi Patunga/National Network of Family Violence Services Incorporated recognises that family violence is “everyone’s business”.
Our shared vision is for an Aotearoa/New Zealand wide family violence prevention and response system which is accountable, effective, sustainable, accessible, and just.
By “family violence prevention and response system”, we mean all the parts of, and laws and policies, practices and procedures which are responsible for preventing family violence and/or addressing it when it occurs.