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Te Rito: New Zealand Family Violence Prevention Strategy

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Foreword
The Strategy
The Context
Vision and Guiding Principles
Family Violence Prevention Goals and Objectives
Framework for Action

Planned Areas for Action

1. Mechanism to promote cross-sector commitment and consistency and to monitor progress.
2. Prioritise Maori-based approaches, early intervention and prevention, and evaluation.
3. Processes to monitor and enforce legal sanctions.
4. Consistency in relevant law, policy and service delivery.
5. Plan of action for preventing violence in Maori communities.
6. Strategy for preventing and/or reducing violence in Pacific communities.
7. Policy for self-referred and non-mandated clients.
8. Research and evaluation programme.
9. Service capacity.
10. Enhance screening and risk assessment.
11. Standards/competencies, best practice guidelines, and mechanisms to maintain competence.
12. Improve access to a range of services.
13. Public education/awareness.

Areas of Action Currently Underway

14. Improve inter-agency co-ordination, collaboration and communication.
15. Enhance capacity of Maori, Pacific and other ethnic service providers.
16. Enhance parent education and support services.
17. Promote and increase child advocacy services.
18. Expand and improve home, community, pre-school and school-based services and programmes.
Closing Message
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