When the Party’s Over.  
Opening the Red Gates design proposal.

Responding to the sexual, physical and emotional effects, on women and children, of a huge party like the Rugby World Cup, is the focus of the Homeworks Trust proposal for the Opening the Red Gates design competition for the Queens Wharf.

Be the first contributors to an exciting new art project to tell the world about abuse and disability.

The National Network of Stopping Violence Services is launching the Clothes Line Project – a visual record of the abuse of people with disabilities and mental illness.

The Clothesline Project will be officially launched in Wellington on White Ribbon Day, 25th November, 2009.

REPORTS
Two new reports that you can look up on the internet.

"It's not OK": New Zealand's efforts to eliminate violence against women [PDF: 8.75MB] / New York: Leitner Centre for International Law and Justice at the Fordham Law School, New York.

Violence Against Women in Aotearoa New Zealand: the case for an integrated plan of action  [PDF: 412KB] / Wellington: Roundtable on Violence Against Women, 2009

This is a new website that aims to SpeakOutLoud about the dynamics and effects of psychological abuse and power and control. The website is for victims, to validate and support, for perpetrators who want to change, are changing or have changed and for friends and family of victims and perpetrators.

An article has been published about our new resource.  See below.

He Drove Me Mad
A teaching resource about the relationship between domestic violence and mental illness and/or substance abuse. For service providers.

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New documentary He Drove Me Mad available now.

The dramatised documentary He Drove Me Mad is designed to help women trapped by domestic violence and mental illness/substance abuse to find support from within voluntary, statutory and NGO services that will enable them to take action and begin the process of recovery.

The documentary presents the viewers with: