The sexual harm helpline can be accessed free, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by phone, text, website, online chat and email.
Even well-resourced residential care is developmentally damaging for children. Māori survivors continually reflect on the trauma of being forced into Pākehā cultural identities and the loss of te reo and…
“Wednesday’s new ABS report revealed that, in the 12 months prior to the 2016 Personal Safety Survey, women and men were just as likely to report experiencing emotional abuse by…
Head of the public service says agencies will own, fix and learn from failures. David Williams reports.
This practice note on Working Well recommends well-being boundaries for peer workers supporting male survivors. Download Practice Note (PDF)
A series of stories has revealed the shocking scale and enduring impact of decades of sexual abuse by Marist Brothers and Fathers. But as National Correspondent Steve Kilgallon explains, yet…
By Hazel Lewis, Gundi Kiemle, Michelle Lowe, Robert Balfour. International Journal of Men’s Social and Community Health
By Robin Lindquist-Grantz, Kimberly Downing, Meredith Hicks, Cherie Houchin, Victoria Ackman
Artistic fragments of a childhood filled with trauma and frequent sexual abuse are on display at Square Edge in a bid to encourage others to ask for help.
The Marist Brothers and Fathers have educated prime ministers, judges, cardinals and All Blacks at their prestigious Catholic high schools. But their record of sexual abuse is horrific. Worse still…
This new five-part series from The Telegraph’s award-winning investigative team looks into decades of alleged child sex abuse in the Jehovah’s Witnesses.
The Marist Brothers and Fathers have educated prime ministers, judges, cardinals and All Blacks at their Catholic high schools. But their record of sexual abuse is horrific. Worse still was…
Poor financial management of sexual violence services has forced Oranga Tamariki to take the “additional measure” of reviewing what it did with all the funding it got in Budget 2019-20.
A Tairāwhiti contingent represented the region’s peer support service for male survivors of sexual abuse at the second annual Male Survivors Aotearoa hui in Nelson last week.
The fragile dynamic between the sexes has always been somewhat fraught. Thirty years ago, American relationship counsellor John Gray seemed to hit both a nerve and a gold mine when…
One man’s contribution to more than 50 years of fighting institutional racism in the judicial system have been recognised with a Queen’s Birthday honour.
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More details have been revealed as part of ongoing research into the extent of reports of abuse in the Catholic Church – but survivors say it is not an accurate…
By Corinna Burgstedt, Amy Beeby, Harlene Hayne, Linda Hobbs, Julien Gross, Tess Patterson. From Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
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Alankaar Sharma, in The British Journal of Social Work.
Sims S, Hepsipa Omega Juliet S, Joseph J, Gopal S, Raghavan V, Venkatraman L, Padmavati R. Acceptability of Peer Support for People With Schizophrenia in Chennai, India: A Cross Sectional…
Sandra H. H. Schel, Linda van den Dries, and Judith R. L. M. Wolf
King, A. J., & Simmons, M. B. (2022), Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 1–11.
Christian Jones, Michael Salter & Delanie Woodlock (2022): “Someone Who Has Been in My Shoes”: The Effectiveness of a Peer Support Model for Providing Support to Partners, Family and Friends…
