Reducing Family Violence in Refugee Communities
Refugee Family Violence Prevention Programme focuses on strengthening community action, by engaging with refugee communities to change social attitudes, beliefs and systems that sustain family violence.
The Programme aims to promote consistent messages that violence in families is unacceptable, and to promote healthy relationships and safe behaviour in families and non-violent conceptualisations of masculinity.
Programme Activities
- Engage community and religious leaders
- To work with communities to develop a plan to address family violence prevention in a way that is appropriate to their community.
- To provide appropriate training for communities.
- To support the communities to roll out their community specific projects.
- Creation of a Refugee Communities Steering Group to channel community concerns and issues to key decision and policy makers and to guide development of the programme.
- To engage mainstream agencies in the community led projects.
The programme has worked with the Farsi and Arabic speaking communities, Somali, Ethiopian and Afghan communities in the greater Auckland region.
For a copy of the programme evaluation form please contact us.
Contact details:
Ailsa Wilson
Phone: (09) 623 4600 ext 27271
Email: ailsaw@adhb.govt.nz
ARPHS, Private Bag 92605, Symonds St, Auckland
www.arphs.govt.nz
