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​If you are in immediate danger, please call:
Emergency Services, call ​111
For further help, contact: 

Women’s Refuge: National Helpline - Crisis line: 0800 REFUGE or 0800 733 843

Child, Youth and Family Line: 0508 FAMILY or 0508 326 459

Family Violence Information Line: 0800 456 450  (available 9.00am -11.00pm daily)
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Jackson Katz asks a very important question that gets at the root of why sexual abuse, rape and domestic abuse remain a problem: What's going on with men?
Why you should listen and share.
Jackson Katz is an educator, author, filmmaker and cultural theorist who is a pioneer in the fields of gender violence prevention education and media literacy. He is co-founder of Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP), which enlists men in the struggle to prevent men’s violence against women. Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, MVP has become a widely used sexual and domestic violence prevention initiative in college and professional athletics across North America. Katz and his MVP colleagues have also worked extensively with schools, youth sports associations and community organizations, as well as with all major branches of the U.S. military.

​Katz is the creator of popular educational videos including Tough Guise: Violence, Media and the Crisis in Masculinity. He is the author of The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help and Leading Men: Presidential Campaigns and the Politics of Manhood. He has also appeared in several documentaries, including Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes and MissRepresentation.
Men’s organizations working to end violence against women, children and other men:
International and online groups:
  1. MVP Strategies
    http://www.mvpstrategies.net/ (web site in development)
  2. MVP-National
    https://www.facebook.com/mvpnational?ref=ts&fref=ts
  3. MVP-Northeastern
    http://www.northeastern.edu/sportinsociety/leadership-education/mvp/

Source & More Detailed Information HERE
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​The Male Room
The Male room is all about offering hope when you have little left of your own. We are here to help you make changes and to sort out the challenges and issues you maybe facing.

At the Male Room, we are against all violence towards men, women, and children. We work with families, and as such regardless of gender, race, orientation or creed, we will do our utmost to deliver the best possible service for the situation and individual and family.

Primary Services
  • Are you going through divorce or separation?
  • Police safety orders; how we can help
  • Domestic Violence
  • Other Services
  • Sexual Support Services
Visit the WEBSITE
Climbing Out Of The Man Box:
​What Does Healthy Manhood Look Like?

There is a growing movement to redefine manhood, and to address ways that violence is baked into our cultural expectations of masculinity. Courageous, visionary men are rising to the challenge. One of those men is activist, writer and public speaker Kevin Powell. In this half-hour, Powell boldly and bravely discusses his experiences with toxic masculinity and his journey to redefine what it means to be a man. This is “Climbing Out of the Man Box: What Does Healthy Manhood Look Like?”

https://soundcloud.com/bioneers/03-18-climbing-out-of-the-man-box-what-does-healthy-manhood-look-like 
Royal Commission of Inquiry into Historical Abuse in Care
 
If you know someone who suffered abuse in care, please encourage them to register with the Inquiry to share their experience.
Understanding what survivors of abuse experienced is critical to ensuring it never happens again.
People can register here: www.abuseincare.org.nz/survivors/register/
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Family Violence Training Opportunities with Rob Veale

Rob Veale is an advisor specialising in enhancing safety through providing domestic violence and general violence reduction expertise to government agencies, local government, social service providers, healthcare professionals and community groups. 

He is availabe to conduct workshops in your area, and will customise times, dates and topics to meet your requirements. He is happy for groups to collaborate to get better value from their training budget.

Please contact him at www.robveale.com
4 Ways Parents Teach Kids that Consent Doesn’t Matter
NZ Women Talking about Family Violence
​Organizations dedicated to sexual and domestic violence:
International and online groups:
Source & More Detailed Information HERE
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READING FOR RESILIENCE - BOOK LIST
​Together with the Marlborough Libraries we’ve come up with another great list of books on Resilience! You can find it here:
READING FOR RESILIENCE.
Available from the Blenheim Library 😊
​This month's Kiwi Can Theme
RESPECT
Means treating people, things and places as important.