Whakamana o te Whānau | Non Violence Service.

The aim of our service is to empower men & women to identify strategies for keeping themselves and their whānau safe and free from family violence

  • Build self-confidence & create self-awareness through understanding the effects of family violence.

  • Facilitate the creation and ownership of personal and family goals for a violence free future.

  • Family Centered Intervention

  • Whānau assessment, safety planning & individualised care plans, includes Whānau and individual sessions and/or access to a group programme

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Whānau Centered Intervention.

Whānau assessment, safety planning & individualised care plans, includes whānau and individual sessions and/or access to a group programme.

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Mana Tane Group Programme.

An educational weekly programme delivered in a supportive setting for Men who would like to learn strategies to manage their emotions in a positive and non violent way.

This programme is open to anybody who is ready to make positive changes in their life.

Programme Content:

  • Managing emotions

  • The role emotions play in violence, mindfulness & managing emotions, distress tolerance skills.

Relationship skills:

  • Respectful relationships, effective communication, sexual respect

  • Impact On others

  • Children and wider whanau, safely managing access and custody issues, sarenting after violence

  • Belief and sttitudes

  • Strategies to manage beliefs and thinking that support violence and abusive practices.

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Hapai Pukuriri.
Anger Management programme.

A culturally focused whānau-centred group programme for Rangatahi between the ages of 12 – 17 with a focus on managing anger.

The programme runs for 2 hours over an 8 week period, (normally during the school term). 

The key objective of the programme is to provide the tools within a Kaupapa Māori framework for Rangatahi to manage and to no longer be the victim of their own anger.

The components of the programme are: 

  • Learn to recognise our anger. 

  • Strategies to manage our anger. 

  • Expressing our anger without hurting ourselves or others.  

  • Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD), Health and well-being and keeping safe in the community.

  • Support whānau to make long term changes to achieve Whānau Ora.