Prevention

This podcast explores topics like family expectations, friendships, communication, and breaking cultural stigmas. Through honest discussions, guest insights, and interactive activities, we aim to empower youth with tools to navigate relationships in a healthy and meaningful way. [Read More…]

The Burundian Association in Auckland, adapted the prevention workshop and delivered it to their community in Kirundi, their language. They also introduced the conversation in two of their major events, Boxing Day and International Women’s Day. [Read More…]

A group of Latin American women in Queenstown, organised an activity for the Latin American Festival of Queenstown, where they invited people to co-create a mural and started conversations about healthy relationships in the Latin American community. [Read More…]

A multicultural group in Whangarei created a board game to discuss healthy relationships in ethnic communities. The game has the possibility to be adapted to different audiences (youth, adults, families, etc), as well as the possibility to include different topics (anti-bullying, racism, healthy relationships in the family, etc. [Read More…]

De Mujer a Mujer, a group of four Latin American women in Tauranga, developed the poster campaign “A shot in the sky” to prevent sexual abuse in Latin American parties. To socialise the campaignand gather feedback, they held a virtual workshop with DJs and party managers. They later created a video to share the campaign’s key message—respect for Latin American women at parties. An online event with DJs and venue managers helped launch it, and social media promotion through influencer actors led to 1.6K views in just one day. [Read More…]

Twelve Korean therapists in Auckland translated Let’s Talk: Keeping Children Safe from Sexual Harm into Korean and delivered it through their Auckland Korean School, which runs in various schools and neighbourhoods to support Korean parents and children [Read More…]

Multicultural Waitaki: Ten women in Oamaru created an interactive workbook to help ethnic parents talk with their adolescents about healthy relationships and consent. Designed for use during tea conversations, the booklet includes reflection exercises to support open, honest dialogue. It was launched with a community tea event. [Read More…]

A group of four members from different regions in Aotearoa, created a survey about dating behaviours in the LGTBIQ+/ethnic communities in Aotearoa. They processed and shared the findings in an episode in Encouraging Conversations [Read More…]

A group of international students from the University of Waikato developed a t-shirt painting activity, inspired by the Clothing line project, to talk about healthy relationships and consent within the University settings. [Read More…]

The Aotearoa Latin American Community group created two videos on consent to support their communities in preventing sexual harm. [Read More…]

In Christchurch, we worked with Women2Women, a group of women of mixed ethnicities. They did two projects: • One group worked on an animation video for social media to prevent sexual harm to teenagers. • The second group worked in a poster campaign about “Parents as Protectors of Child Abuse.” [Read More…]

In Christchurch, we worked with Women2Women, a group of women of mixed ethnicities. They did two projects: • One group worked on an animation video for social media to prevent sexual harm to teenagers. • The second group worked in a poster campaign about “Parents as Protectors of Child Abuse.” [Read More…]

Mituakiri is a group of 2 Latin American/Chilean women based in Wellington. They developed an online survey for Spanish speaking people in New Zealand about priority areas for sexual violence prevention. They also created two videos in Spanish with subtitles in English about consent and healthy relationships [Read More…]

We also worked with 8 Muslim women from the Yasmina Mums Group in Hamilton. They developed a Booklet in Arabic as a didactic material to be used by Arab parents to protect their kids from sexual abuse. This resource was used in a workshop they presented to their community. [Read More…]

We worked with 8 Muslim women from the Yasmina Youth Group in Hamilton. They developed the Instagram page, “Our Voices”, to discuss healthy relationships and consent among Arab youth. They also developed a workshop for Arab and Muslim youth about “Healthy Relationships and Consent from an Islamic perspective”. They have delivered the workshop 3 times. [Read More…]

To trial the programme, we trained 6 Shama’s staff and with the help of our Prevention worker, they developed a workshop aimed at ethnic parents and other caregivers. We also delivered this workshop in collaboration with the Southland Multicultural Council. [Read More…]

This project engaged ethnic men in Aotearoa New Zealand in conversations about healthy masculinities and preventing sexual harm. Through group discussions and one-on-one interviews, the project explored views on women, parenting, and life in Aotearoa, aiming to highlight positive cultural perspectives on masculinity across diverse ethnic communities [Read More…]

This is a multi-language, multi-media community project that provides information about how to prevent and respond to sexual violence in New Zealand. The videos are in different languages and made by people in our communities. The presenters aim to increase opportunities for community conversations about preventing sexual violence. We have published 54 videos in 18 languages [Read More…]

“Working in collaboration with community groups and Free FM, we have launched a new podcast, Encouraging Conversations: Preventing Sexual Violence in Ethnic Communities in Aotearoa.
The different episodes share the experiences of ethnic community leaders from around Aotearoa New Zealand as they reflect on the work they have done to prevent sexual violence within their communities. 5 episodes” [Read More…]