Getting Help and Support

Family and Community Services National Directory
An online search tool of services available to help families and individuals in New Zealand. The National Directory helps you to find out what organisations are available in your area to help you, and their contact details.

Provided by Family and Community Services, a government agency working to support and strengthen family support services.

What is Family Violence?
From the Living Without Violence homepage, click on the “What is Family Violence?” button on the left hand of your screen. Explains the different things that make up family violence, and what they are.

Provided by Living Without Violence Collective, a community organisation based in Takapuna, with the purpose of intervening in and stopping men's violence against women, children and other men, and supporting women and their safety from men's violence.

Help for Victims of Domestic Violence
Help with auditing your relationship, making a safety plan, protection orders, and stories from others who’ve been there.

Provided by Preventing Violence in the Home, a national organisation offering training and consultancy regarding violence in the home throughout New Zealand, and the largest single family violence prevention service in New Zealand.

Protection Orders and the Domestic Violence Act
Getting a protection order, applications in the Family Court, what the protection order says, what happens if the abuse doesn’t stop, serving a trespass notice, and people who can help.

Provided by the New Zealand Police.

Research and Publications
Research, information and resources on various aspects of family violence.

Provided by New Zealand Family Violence Clearing House, a Ministry of Social Development-funded project to collate and disseminate information about family violence in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Becoming a Non-Smoker
Resources to help new non-smokers cope with stress, cravings, the quitting blues, possible weight game, and any setbacks.

Provided by The Quit Group, a charitable trust set up to run quit smoking programmes in New Zealand, including the national free telephone support Quitline.

Understanding Addiction
Understanding addiction by understanding the causes of addiction.

Provided by the Alcohol Advisory Council (ALAC), a permanent council whose aim is to encourage responsible use, and minimise misuse, of alcohol.

Anger
Where anger comes from, dealing with your anger, and alternative outlets for anger.

Provided by Victoria University of Wellington.

Discrimination
An overview of where you can turn if you feel you have suffered discrimination.

Provided by Immigration New Zealand, part of the Department of Labour, a Government department that helps people achieve high-quality working lives in thriving and inclusive communities through linking their social and economic interests.

How to Complain About Discrimination to the Human Rights Commission
How to make a complaint, the illegal grounds of discrimination, areas of life protected by the Human Rights Act, how the Human Rights Commission will deal with your complaint, the Human Rights Review Tribunal, taking a personal grievance for discrimination in your job,

Provided by Install Law Ltd, a New Zealand-based company providing general legal information to internet users of New Zealand. Install Law is not a legal firm.

Dealing with Violence at Work (OSH PDF, 89kb)
What violence at work is, reducing the risk of violence at work, and a management action plan for when violence at work occurs.

Provided by Workplace Health and Safety, part of the Department of Labour, a Government department that helps people achieve high-quality working lives in thriving and inclusive communities through linking their social and economic interests. Workplace Health and Safety is responsible for employment relations, health and safety services, accident compensation policy and monitoring services.

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