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Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another.

Henri Nouwen
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  • An Update of Peer Support/Peer Provided Services Underlying Processes, Benefits, and Critical Ingredients

    10/02/2022
    Research

    The purpose of this article is to delineate the current state-of-the-knowledge of peer support following the framework employed in the 2004 article (Solomon, Psychiatr Rehabil J. 2004;27(4):392–401 1). A scoping literature was conducted and included articles from 1980 to present. Since 2004, major growth and advancements in peer support have occurred from the development of new […]

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  • Time to change course in stigma research?

    10/02/2022
    Research

    As one of the world’s longest running anti-stigma campaigns, Time to Change (UK), came to an end in March 2021, policy makers, campaigners and researchers will be looking to learn lessons to take forward into the next phase in the fight against stigma. This presents the perfect opportunity to revisit the stigma research landscape and ask important […]

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  • Abuse ‘disproportionate’

    07/02/2022
    News

    Dunedin victims of church abuse were likely to number even more than those shown in national figures released on Tuesday, a survivor’s advocate has said. The Catholic Church had released the figures which showed 1122 survivors had laid almost 1700 complaints naming almost 600 perpetrators of abuse. Male Survivors Otago manager Michael Chamberlain said the […]

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  • Catholic Church in New Zealand discovers 14 per cent of clergy accused of abuse, with Cardinal describing findings as ‘horrifying’

    03/02/2022
    News

    As many as one in seven Catholic diocesan clergy in New Zealand have been accused of abuse, according to an investigation by the church. But groups representing victims say that is likely to be a fraction of the actual abuse within the church, which often went unreported or unrecorded. The Catholic Church reported on the […]

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  • Corrections criticised on sex assaults in prison

    25/01/2022
    News

    Corrections staff who are victims of sexual assault in prison are not being treated sensitively or offered adequate support, a staff union says. Sexual assault charges have been laid against prisoners in 17 incidents where Corrections staff were assaulted in the last five years. In that same period, another 44 allegations of sexual assault were […]

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  • The Nature and Impact of Informal Mental Health Support in an LGBTQ Context: Exploring Peer Roles and Their Challenges

    04/01/2022
    Research

    Research shows that LGBTQ communities experience high levels of suicidality and mental ill health. They also face significant barriers to accessing adequate mental health treatment in service settings. In response to these factors, it is likely that LGBTQ community members turn to their peers for informal mental health-related support. Such support, however, is largely undefined, […]

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  • Government reveals 25-year plan to tackle family and sexual violence

    20/12/2021
    News

    A 25-year plan to tackle the amount of violence in New Zealand homes is being unveiled by the government this morning. The country’s first National Strategy for eliminating family violence and sexual violence, called Te Aorerekura, will see 10 agencies working together. Minister for the Prevention of Family Violence Marama Davidson said Te Aorerekura represents […]

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  • On female sexual abuse of children among religious sisters in New Zealand 

    14/12/2021
    Research

    There is a powerful misconception that the sexual predation of children and vulnerable adults within faith based institutions is invariably an issue of male on male or male on female assault. This is clearly not the case.  Indeed, within the Catholic Church in Aotearoa entities that had the highest total figures of likely peadophiles between […]

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  • ‘Why didn’t you scream?’: Child sex abuse complainants face victim blaming, badgering in court

    12/12/2021
    News

    Children in sex assault trials are blamed for their own abuse, criticised for keeping secrets and repeatedly accused of lying by defence lawyers, causing extreme distress and undermining their ability to give evidence, a study has found. Judges either failed to stop such questioning or cut off inappropriate lines of cross-examination too late, trial transcripts […]

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  • Charges against former Lake Alice staff member ‘better than nothing’ says survivor

    12/12/2021
    News

    It finally feels as though Lake Alice survivors are being listened to after a former staff member was charged, says one former patient. Selwyn Leeks is a 92-year-old with dementia. As lead psychiatrist at the Lake Alice child and adolescent unit in the 1970s, he is said to have administered electric shocks and paralysing drugs […]

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  • Tauranga exhibition’s new approach on Lake Alice abuse

    12/12/2021
    News

    The Moral Drift is the name of an exhibition that is on at the Tauranga Art Gallery until January 23rd. The exhibition investigates a partial history of our state care system, uncovering a legacy of abuse and the resiliency of the survivors who continue to seek justice today. It’s a collaborative project using several different […]

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  • The impossible task: How New Zealand plans to tackle violence without maligning men

    08/12/2021
    News

    A new strategy aims to eliminate family and sexual violence without even using the word “perpetrator”. Will a plan focusing on healing and prevention be enough to turn our appalling statistics around? OPINION: If ever there was a poisoned chalice in politics, it was the job awarded to Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson following the 2020 […]

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