TE KUPENGA WHAKAOTI MAHI PATUNGA / NATIONAL NETWORK OF FAMILY VIOLENCE SERVICES (NZ) INCORPORATED HAS FORMALLY CEASED OPERATING
This marks the conclusion of TKWMP/NNFV’s mahi. It follows the visionary decision of its members in November 2025 to create space for the prospect of a new entity to emerge to best support the important mahi of the non-profit specialist family violence sector and its workforces. Following recent approval of arrangements enabling weaFV to take over relevant contracts previously held by TKWMP/NNFVS, the process of winding down TKWMP/NNFVS is now proceeding.
We acknowledge and thank all of the member organisations of TKWMP/NNFVS, and the many people who have contributed their time, expertise, leadership and commitment to its work. TKWMP/NNFVS was made possible by the collective efforts of its members, and we recognise the significant contribution they have made throughout its existence.
While weaFV will take over certain contracts and continue work in related areas, weaFV is an entirely separate organisation from TKWMP/NNFVS. It has its own governance and organisational structure, and its purposes and approach differ in important respects from those of TKWMP/NNFVS. The transition of contracts should therefore not be understood as TKWMP/NNFVS continuing under a new name or structure.
Rather, the establishment of weaFV represents a new chapter and a new organisation, building on lessons, relationships and experience developed across the sector while establishing its own direction and ways of working.
As TKWMP/NNFVS closes, we encourage our former member organisations and partners, as well as the wider family violence sector, to engage with and support weaFV as it begins operating publicly. Sector knowledge, experience and continued commitment will be valuable as weaFV develops its work and relationships across the motu.
We extend our sincere thanks to everyone who has supported, participated in and contributed to TKWMP/NNFVS.
TKWMP/NNFVS is no longer operating, and this website will remain as a record of its work. This site will NOT be updated from August 2026.
For information about weaFV and its work, please refer to weaFV’s official channels. We understand the weaFV website www.weafv.org.nz will be operational from September 2026.
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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 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.