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Family violence organisations and websites

Other websites on family violence.

National and international links

  • Auckland University of Technology – Interdisciplinary Trauma Research Unit
    The Interdisciplinary Trauma Research Unit staff and students undertake research that is aimed at gaining an understanding of the human experience of trauma. They interpret trauma as physical, psychological or cultural experiences that are extremely negative, uncontrollable, out of the ordinary.
  • Child, Youth and Family
    This site is a focus for promoting the wellbeing and safety of children and supporting positive parenting. Child, Youth and Family is a service of the Ministry of Social Development, and is part of a network of agencies aiming to build an environment where child abuse is not tolerated.
  • Children’s Commissioner
    Provides information about the Office of the Children’s Commissioner’s work and about children’s and young people’s rights.
  • Doctors for Sexual Abuse Care
    Doctors for Sexual Abuse Care is a professional organisation of doctors from many disciplines whose prime focus is education and support of medical practitioners to ensure maintenance of internationally recognised standards of best practice in the medical and forensic management of sexual assault.
  • Family Planning
    Family Planning works to promote a positive view of sexuality and to enable people to make informed choices about their sexual and reproductive health and well-being.
  • Jigsaw
    Jigsaw is a not-for-profit organisation focused on the well-being of all New Zealand children and their families.
  • National Collective of Independent Women’s Refuges
    Women’s Refuge provides any of the support and information you need when you are dealing with violence in your life.
  • National Campaign for Action on Family Violence
    The It’s Not OK campaign is part of a community-wide movement led by individuals and organisations throughout New Zealand who are working together to help prevent family violence. It will provide information, resources and support to create a society that says family violence is never ok.
  • National Network of Stopping Violence Services
    The National Network of Stopping Violence Services Inc works to enable all people in Aotearoa/New Zealand to live free of all forms of violence, abuse and oppression.
  • New Zealand College of Midwives
    The professional association of midwifery in New Zealand.
  • New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse
    The New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse is the national centre for collating and disseminating information about domestic and family violence in Aotearoa New Zealand.
  • Nursing Council of New Zealand
    The Nursing Council of New Zealand is the statutory authority that governs the practice of nurses. The Council sets and monitors standards in the interests of the public and the profession.
  • Paediatric Society of New Zealand
    The aims and objectives of the society are to stimulate interest in and to promote the scientific study of child health and paediatrics in New Zealand, and to engage in all activities which, in the opinion of the Society, may be necessary from time to time in the interests of child health, and to engage in activities which promote the welfare of New Zealand children.
  • Plunket
    Plunket is a New Zealand’s largest provider of support services for the development, health and wellbeing of children under the age of five. 
  • Shine*
    Shine* is a national organisation offering a free helpline, training and consultancy throughout New Zealand and is now the largest single family violence prevention service in New Zealand with a focus on keeping people safe in their own home.
  • Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse
    The Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse is a national resource on issues of domestic violence and family violence. It provides a central point for the collection and dissemination of Australian domestic and family violence policy, practice and research.
  • Child and Youth Health
    South Australian child and youth health service.
  • Family Violence Prevention Fund
    The Family Violence Prevention Fund works to prevent violence within the home, and in the community, to help those whose lives are devastated by violence because everyone has the right to live free of violence.
  • Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
    Information on the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
  • United Nations Programme on Women
    The United Nations have a particular focus on violence against women, and their work includes the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women.
  • World Health Organization – Violence and Injury Prevention
    World Health Organization resources, including documents, fact sheets, newsletters, posters and resolutions related to violence and violence prevention.

Page last updated: 05 October 2010