Community Connect
Welcome to the seventh edition of Family and Community Services' e-newsletter.
ISSUE 7 • JULY 2009
E-news from Family and Community Services
More Men Seeking Help to Stop Family Violence
DOVE Hawkes Bay, a member of the National Network of Stopping Violence Services, reports positive results for their men's programmes for stopping violence.
This includes:
- an increase of 23% in the number of men referred to their men's programmes (on top of a 50% increase the year before).
- over 90% of men referred to the programmes turning up for their assessments (compared to 75% the year before)
- 85% of the men who started a group programme completed it - compared to 49% the year before
- 77% of the men who started an individual programme completed it - compared to 67% the year before.
Caroline Lampp, Manager of DOVE Hawke's Bay, attributes the increase in retention and completion rates for men to the wrap around support and services DOVE provides to the men on their programme.
"This ranges from the social work support, to the food and whanaungatanga offered, to our better understanding of bi-cultural approaches, to the growing realisation that it is the sincere and trusting relationships that are built around clients that really count," she said.
"As DOVE programmes become a positive place for men to be, more of them will tell their mates about that and the whole thing builds on itself."
DOVE Hawkes Bay provides intervention and education services in the area of Stopping Violence, with the focus on maximising the safety of women and children. The organisation has three main areas of service, Men's Women's and Youth.
