North Harbour Living Without Violence (NHLWV) is a community organisation based in Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand. Our main purpose is to facilitate respectful relationships. We do this by:
- Offering perpetrators of violence education programmes (both in groups and individually). These programmes help them stop their use of violence and abuse and to have respectful, equal relationships.
- Offering victims of abuse and/or violence support and education programmes (both in groups and individually). These programmes help people to recognise the signs (and effects) of abuse and violence and to live lives free of abuse and violence.
- Helping children and teenagers who have experienced abuse and/or violence to deal with the effects of this violence in healthy ways.
Our Vision:
NHLWV is committed to the ongoing provision of high-quality domestic violence services. We emphasise the right of all people to live lives free from violence and abuse in all its forms.
NHWLV works within an interagency framework to achieve maximum success in all programmes that we deliver. We recognise the importance of all agencies working to stop domestic violence and work appropriately with these agencies to ensure the best possible outcomes for our clients.
NHLWV encourages an internal culture of openness, honesty, respect and ongoing reflective practice. We maintain good governance and management processes and recognise the diversity and integrity of all workers who contribute their expertise to NHLWV.
NHLWV stands against abuse and violence with all clients who we work with. We understand that our clients are capable of living lives free of abuse and violence and we work with clients to achieve this outcome. We support and acknowledge the right of all people to be treated without discrimination with regards to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, physical ability and politics.
Our Background:
NHLWV started out in 1992 as a group of men and women committed to reducing family violence on the North Shore. We became an Incorporated Society in 1994 and are registered as a charitable entity under the Charities Act 2005. We are members of the National Network of Stopping Violence Services/ Te Kupenga Whakaoti Mahi Patunga Inc. and the Safer Families Violence Prevention Project. We have a strong belief that intervention work to reduce and/or stop family violence is best carried out within a co-ordinated community approach.
Our Services:
Our intervention strategy is based on the delivery of the following key services, namely:- Provision of Men's Living Without Violence/Anger Management Programmes
- Provision of Men's Support Programmes
- Provision of Women's Support and Education Programmes
- Provision of Women's Relating Respectfully/Anger Management Programmes
- Provision of Children and Teenager's Programmes
For more details of these programmes, please click on the link provided.
Personnel:
NHLWV currently employs four staff, three of which are part-time. In addition, we contract a range of men and women to provide our group and individual programmes. Both our staff and contracted workers are highly trained and include qualified counsellors, psychotherapists, social workers and group facilitators. All our staff and contracted workers have specific training in the dynamics of family violence.