Abuse Prevention Services builds abuse-free families through education and support. APS provides counselling and group programmes for men, women, youth, and children who have caused or experienced Family (Domestic) Violence/Abuse and want help to change their lives.

Services include:-

• Men’s Programme – “Living Without Abuse”
• Women’s Programme – “Living Free From Abuse”
• Children and Young People’s Programme – “Free to be Me”
• Counselling – safe, confidential and professional counselling service

• Family Centred services
• Social Workers
• Youth, education and legal advocacy
• Youth support and activities
• Alcohol and Drug services
• Health Clinic
• Counselling
• Referral service
• Budgeting service
• Programme work with men and women

ChangeAbility offers counselling, programmes and services across the whole
spectrum in the Wairarapa for anxiety, grief, and depression, emotional and
relational issues as well as for those who want to become safe and live free of the
effects of family violence.

DOVE Hawkes Bay provides intervention and education services in the area of Stopping Violence with the focus on maximising the safety of women and children.

The organisation has three main areas of service; men’s, women’s and youth.

• To protect the victims of violence through education and empowerment.
• To hold perpetrators accountable for their actions
• And assist all people to develop alternate strategies to violence.

Family Safety Services (FSS) work in partnership with community & statutory organisations to support families/whanau to build & develop skills, resilience & connectedness within their community. FSS provide group programmes & activities delivered to youths, adults & families that provide positive social development opportunities to enhance & support participant’s learning & holistic well-being. FSS help families & individuals feel safe through developing new skills, increase their confidence to speak out & motivate them to ‘Be the Change’.

HAIP works to support, advocate and empower families affected by domestic violence. It provides safety services and non-violence programmes for men and women.

Kaupapa: To strengthen and re-affirm the Whanau, Hapu and Iwi base.

• Whanau Social Work Support
• Counselling
• Family Violence
• Social Workers in Schools
• Budgeting
• Parent Education
• Youth Development
• Kaitoko Whanau Support

Provide non-violence education programmes for the Community.  This includes programme education for perpetrators of violence, and support programmes for victims.  We provide two men’s groups a week and one women’s group a week. We are an approved provider of programmes for the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Social Development.

Inner City Women’s Group is a not-for- profit domestic violence prevention agency, established in 1988 and based in Auckland. We specialise in providing programmes for women affected by violence, including:

• Freedom from abuse and violence
• Women and anger
• Assertiveness, communication, confidence building skills and strategies
• Parenting support for women affected by domestic violence
• Prevention and violence education
• Coping with the aftermath of trauma

We are an independent charitable trust and are approved by the Ministry of Social Development, Ministry of Justice and department of Corrections.

Programmes are available for men, women and youth. The programmes consist of group or individual sessions aimed at providing people with the skills to manage their anger and live a violent free lifestyle.

We provide individual and group based services and programmes to people impacted by family violence and we undertake local awareness raising and education activities about the impacts of violence on individuals, whanau and our communities. Specific services include individual and couples counselling, Court recognised non-violence programmes and safety programmes. We support women, men, couples, young people and children. Services available to people, living, working or visiting Waiheke Island.

Living Without Violence

Man Alive’s point of difference from other non-violence programmes is that they are run by men, for men. Our Maori programme, Te Ara Taumata Ora, uses the same themes as Living Without Violence but they are delivered in culturally appropriate ways. Living Without Violence and Te Ara Taumata Ora programmes are run in accordance with the Domestic Violence Act and are approved by Probation Services.

Counselling For Men By Men

The first thing your male counsellor will do is help you clearly identify the issues. Man Alive counsellors are trained and experienced in dealing with men’s issues, so they’ll understand yours. Next, they’ll help you develop a broader range of options to deal with the issues. As your choices increase, you’ll feel better about yourself and your life. The challenge is for you to ask for support.

Men’s Change & Support Groups

Men often find themselves in situations where they are expected to deal with big change in their lives and with little support. This group is an open, easy-going group of ordinary guys who have had crisis and change in the past helping men who are going through hard times now.

Men In Relationships

Men in Relationships is a 12 week course that could change your family and work life. It is a course designed to help you deal with stress and conflict. It will help you come closer to your family.

Family & Couple Counselling

The goal of family counselling is to achieve personal, and family well-being and to recognize and strengthen the existing supports and resources you have as individuals and as a family. Couple counselling can help you restore connection, belonging and intimacy relationships.

Youth Services

Boys Alive

An eight week programme for boys aged 8-12, who may have a lack of positive male role models, behavioural difficulties, or issues around anger, relationships, communication or self-esteem. (currently Waitakere City only)

Growing Men

A twelve week anger management and life skills one-to-one counselling programme, for male youth who are finding it difficult to control anger, aggression or violence.

Moana House provides a twelve month residential therapeutic community for adult
male offenders who want to change their lives. Many of our residents may also have
a history of alcohol and/or drug abuse. To be eligible to attend the Moana House
Programme you must be an adult male of 17 years or over, with an crikminal
offending history. It is not necessary to be referred through an agency – referral may
be made by self, or family and friends, through Community Probation, the Courts,
Prison Services, or Community Alcohol and Drug Services. We will also accept men
who are undergoing Opioid Substitution Treatment.

• 1) Provision of group and individual Men’s Living Without Violence Programmes. In these programmes men examine their beliefs and attitudes toward women and learn ways to stop controlling or abusive actions.
• 2) Provision of group and individual Women’s Support/Education Programmes. In these programmes women are provided with a safe and supportive environment where they can explore options for living an abuse-free lifestyle.
• 3) Provision of group and individual Women’s Respectful Relating Programmes. In these programmes women look at issues of anger, abuse and violence in their own lives and create ways of living free of abuse and violence.
• 4) Provision of group and individual Support Programmes for Children and Teenagers who have been affected by family violence. In these programmes children learn ways to cope with the effects of family violence.
• 5) Provision of Anger Management programmes for teenagers who have issues with anger or abuse in their lives. In these programmes teenagers learn respectful ways of dealing with conflict and respectful ways to respond to anger.

Piritahi Hau Ora is a marae based primary healthcare services for all people on Waiheke Island. In addition to providing general medical and healthcare services, the Hauora provides individual and whanau support and referral to people experiencing family violence.

A continuous 15 week open group Support and Learning Programmes for women who have experienced family violence.
A continuous 18 week open group Women Living Without Violence Behaviour Change Programme for women who are violent.
Two 18-week continuous open group Men’s Living Without Violence Behaviour Change Programmes based on the belief that physical, sexual or psychological violence is not ok.
Four days a week we provide up to six empowering and educational Tamariki programme, each programme is a 10 week closed group for individual, sibling and group children aged 5-8 and 9-12 years. This is an empowering and educational programme to assist children work through the impacts of being a witness or survivor of family violence.
We also provide 10 Week Individual Support & Learning Programmes and Individual Behaviour Change Programmes for Men and Women. Correction’s 20 Week Family Violence Programme. In Lower and Upper Hutt.
A 18-week continuous open group Men’s Living Without Violence Behaviour Change programme in Lower Hutt based on the belief that physical, sexual or psychological violence is not ok.
A continuous 18 week open group Women Living Without Violence Behaviour Change Programme in Lower Hutt for women who are violent. A 18-week continuous open group Men’s Living Without Violence Behaviour Change programme in Upper Hutt based on the belief that physical, sexual or psychological violence is not ok.
We also provide 10 Week Individual Behaviour Change Programmes for Men and Women in Lower Hutt and Individual Behaviour Change Programmes for Men in Upper Hutt. Correction’s 20 Week Family Violence Programme in Upper and Lower Hutt In Wellington 18-week continuous open group Men’s Living Without Violence Behaviour Change Programmes based on the belief that physical, sexual or psychological violence is not ok.
We also provide 10 Week Individual Behaviour Change Programmes for Men and Women in Wellington. Correction’s 20 Week Family Violence Programme

Rise: Stopping Violence Services provides non-violence programmes for men, women
and young people (11-17 yrs), who use violence within their families or whanau.

National tollfree Helpline. Victim support & advocacy – working with police, CYF, hospitals, others. Shine Women’s Refuges, transition housing

KIDshine: home-based intervention for children exposed to domestic abuse.

No Excuses: men’s stopping violence programme. Training for over 1000 NZ professionals annually. Assisting District Health Boards, primary healthcare services to implement routine family violence screening.

DVFREE: creating safe workplaces for staff experiencing domestic abuse.

Support for families who are affected by family or domestic violence.  Advice,
information and support is provided.

Stopping Violence Dunedin offers a range of services:

Family/Whānau support services, group programmes for men and women, individual programmes and counselling services, and our new youth-orientated group programme.

We are the umbrella agency for the Dunedin Collaboration Against Family Violence (DCAFV) and Bail on Bullying (BoB). We offer programmes for Family Court and Corrections mandated clients as well as for self-referrals.

Provider of Dept of Corrections and MOJ mandated individual and group non violence programmes for males, and individual programmes for females.  Pasifika individual and whanau non violence interventions. Provider of individual and group non violence programmes and interventions for self referred males, and individual programme for females – funding available for those who can’t afford to fund a programme. Mental Health Specialist available for consultations (Christchurch only) MOJ provider of Strengthening Safety Services for male victims of violence. Provider of behavioural change programmes for male and female youth 11yrs – 24yrs. Support sessions for caregivers of youth. Provider of programmes for male and female youth where behaviour and conflict is a barrier to on-going tertiary education/ employment.

Stopping Violence Southland offers individual and group programmes to Men and Women and an individual programme to Youth at 70 Victoria Avenue, Invercargill. The Men’s non-violence programmes is either a 16 session group or an 11 sessions individual programme. Male victims are offered an individual programme. The Women’s non-violence programme is either group or individual consisting 11 sessions, and The Women’s victim programme is 10 session group or individual. The Youth programme is for Adolescents aged 12 to 17 years. The programme is 10 sessions with an experienced Facilitator.

Our overarching goal is to reduce family violence thereby making families and communities safer. We do this by working with individuals and families and by working with both victims and perpetrators to produce the following outcomes/benefits in our community;

• Male perpetrators/offenders who have accessed our service;
• Have an increased understanding of how their behaviour affects victims and how their violence affects children
• Understand that there is no excuse for domestic violence no matter
  what their background or cultural/religious beliefs are
• Demonstrate a positive change in attitude and non-violent behaviour
• Have learnt skills and increased their knowledge to manage their behaviour which had caused the violence enabling their partner/children/ family to be safer

Victims of violence who have accessed our service:

• Have the knowledge and skills to plan for their own and their children’s safety
• Show improvement in their safety and that of their children
• Have increased confidence and ability to deal with the perpetrator’s behaviour
• Have a more positive outlook towards themselves, their relationships and their future
• Are more connected to their whanau and their community

Youth who have accessed our service:

• An increased ability to deal with stressful and frustrating situations and managed their thoughts and feelings in a non-violent and healthy way
• Demonstrate increased safety within themselves, relationships and the wider community
• Have a more positive outlook towards themselves, their relationships and their future
• Are more connected to their whanau and their community

Children who have accessed our service:

• Know what to do if they feel unsafe or scared that someone will get hurt
• Have an increased confidence to know where to go for help
• Know that violence is not OK
• Are safer

Tauranga Living Without Violence offers services and programmes for men and women dealing with family violence.

We offer comprehensive assessments, including risk assessment and management.  Plus group and individual programmes for women dealing with the effects and impact of violence on themselves and their children, and for men wanting to stop their violence and change their attitudes and beliefs. From this work we help clients to achieve outcomes that include, living free from fear, better relationships with their family or whanau, hope for the future and an understanding of what has gone and where the responsibility lies. We work with other local and national services to achieve these outcomes and also to ensure clients with dual or multiple issues can have all aspects of their well-being addressed.

Kaupapa Māori services including counselling services for individual, couples,
women, children and youth, parenting mothers groups & fathers groups,whanau
work support in all areas including trauma, abuse (physical, emotional, sexual), work
with Tane one on one

Whakatū Marae provides Whānau Ora services, including smoking cessation advise, Whānau Ora Navigation, Counselling, comprehensive social work.

Whakatū Marae also provides education and support to whānau living without violence, in conjunction with Ministry of Social Development. Our kaimahi work alongside whānau with complex needs, drawing primarily upon Māori models of practice. The use of cultural values, such as whakapapa, tikanga, wairua, tapu, mauri, and mana, have the potential to influence wellbeing in whānau relationships, transform behaviours and provide alternatives to lifestyle. Using these imperatives can guide transformative practices and inform strategies for whānau and whānau wellbeing. They can also be seen as protective factors within whānau, hapū and iwi.