Prevention
Our violence prevention work supports ethnic communities across Aotearoa New Zealand to lead culturally grounded initiatives that prevent family and sexual violence. We work alongside community groups to build knowledge, confidence, and skills, and support them to create prevention projects that speak to their own cultures, languages, and experiences. This includes training, ongoing mentoring, seed funding, and connection to a national network of ethnic community leaders. Together, these initiatives promote healthy relationships, consent, bystander action, and child safety in ways that are meaningful and community-led.
“Let’s Talk Kids” – The Shama workshop to support ethnic parents protect their children from sexual abuse
“No Means No”: Learning about consent in the Latin American communities of Aotearoa
Clothesline Project: Raising Awareness on Healthy Relationships and Consent through activism
Safe night. Preventing sexual harm in our latino community
Keeping Children Safe From Sexual Harm in Arabic and from an Islamic perspective
Dating Behaviours in Auckland’s South Asian LGBTIQ+ Communities – EquAsian
Let’s Talk: Keeping Children Safe from Sexual Harm in Korean
Healthy Relationships, Consent, and Mental Health from an Islamic perspective – Yasmina Youth Group “Our Voices”
Burundian Community – Violence Prevention
Healthy relationships conversations with the Latin American communities in Queenstown
“Let’s Talk About Healthy Relationships”
Women to Women – Keeping Adolescents Safe from Sexual Harm
Consent and Healthy Relationships in Latin American Communities in Aotearoa – Mituakiri
Let’s Talk – Keeping Children Safe Posters
List of Projects
- Burundian Community Violence Prevention, Burundian Group (Auckland) – Community event promoting awareness and prevention of family and sexual violence.
- Healthy Relationships, Queenstown Community Group (Queenstown) – Community conversations and activities promoting healthy relationships and consent.
- Safe Night, De Mujer a Mujer (Auckland/Hamilton/Tauranga) – Campaign preventing sexual harm against Latina women in nightclubs.
- Keeping Children Safe, Korean Therapists Group (Auckland) – Korean-language resources and activities supporting child abuse prevention conversations
- Healthy Relationships Toolkit, Waitaki Multicultural (Oamaru) – Community resource supporting conversations about healthy relationships and consent.
- Dating Behaviours Survey, EquAsian (Auckland) – Survey exploring online dating safety, consent, and queer Asian experiences
- Clothesline Project, University of Waikato Students (Hamilton) – Creative activism raising awareness of healthy relationships and consent.
- Keeping Children Safe Posters, Women2Women (Christchurch) – Community-designed posters supporting parents to prevent child sexual harm.
- Keeping Adolescents Safe, Women2Women (Christchurch) – Workshops and resources supporting parents to protect adolescents from sexual harm.
- Animated Consent Stories, Mituakiri (Wellington) – Animated Spanish-language videos exploring consent and healthy relationships.
- Healthy Relationships & Consent, Yasmina Youth Group (Hamilton) – Youth-led conversations on healthy relationships, consent, and wellbeing.
- Keeping Children Safe, Yasmina Group (Hamilton) – Arabic resource supporting Muslim parents to prevent child sexual abuse.
- No Means No, ALAC (National) – Spanish-language videos explaining consent and how to get help.
- Let’s Talk Kids, Shama (Hamilton) – Workshop supporting ethnic parents to protect children from sexual abuse.
- Let’s Talk, Videos, Shama (National) – Multi-language videos explaining sexual violence and available support.
- Let’s Talk, Men, Shama (National) – Community conversations on healthy masculinity and respectful relationships.
Interested in Working With Us?
We welcome ethnic community groups who are interested in preventing family or sexual violence in ways that are meaningful to their own communities.
Working with us usually involves:
- Initial training on what works in violence prevention
- Support to design a community-led project (for example: workshops, videos, posters, podcasts, art, or events)
- Seed funding to help develop and share your project
- Ongoing mentoring and support over several months
- Connection to a national network of ethnic community groups working on prevention
Projects are led by communities and delivered in your own language, culture, and style. You do not need prior experience — just commitment, care for your community, and willingness to learn.
If your group would like to start a conversation or find out more, please get in touch with us.
Email: prevention@shama.org.nz
