Family violence and sexual violence service provider updates - MSD, Oct and Nov 2019

The Ministry of Social Development (MSD) email updates for family violence and sexual violence service providers covers a number of areas of work. You can view the updates online and subscribe to receive them to your inbox.

The November 2019 update includes information on the following areas of work:

• Whānau Resilience update and feedback on the process
• MSD has commissioned Backbone Collective to conduct survey of women who have experienced family violence (still accepting responses)
• Talking about family violence - new videos from the Ministry of Justice 
• Update on work to develop national Court Support Service 
• Update on elder abuse services work

The October 2019 update included information on the following areas of work:

• Progess on Kaupapa Māori services development
• Upcoming engagement on court support service
• Strengthening of elder abuse helpline
• Safe to talk - finalist in Spirit of Service awards
• Update on evaluation of sexual violence services

Read all past updates and sign up to receive future updates on the MSD website.

For questions about sexual violence service development email CI_Sexual_Violence_Services@msd.govt.nz and about the family violence work programme contact Family_Violence_CPP@msd.govt.nz.

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The Government has introduced the Sexual Violence Legislation Bill to improve the process and experiences for victims of sexual violence in the courts and justice system.

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Related media

Collaborative approach to ending family violence, Beehive Press Release, Scoop, 10.10.2019