Events
CFVC creates and offers events for its professional members, and for the public. We also participate in events and promote opportunities offered by others.
CFVC networking evets are free, but our professional development events may be offered at a small, subsidised fee to help us offset costs.
If you know of a training, learning or networking opportunity that CFVC members may benefit from, wish to be involved in, or could share with their clients, please email us and we will add a link to it here.
You can also find a range of relevant events on the following sites: MHERC; NZFVC; ECLIPSE and SHINE.
Boundaries and Ethics
Those who work in the social services sector can find themselves in challenging situations in which their commitment to helping others comes into conflict with both their personal and professional boundaries.
Coming from diverse backgrounds, they may also have no common understanding of professional boundaries and ethics.
CFVC is offering a bespoke session by Dr Chris Taua, which is aimed at those with some experience in the social services sector (i.e. it is not an introduction to ethics course and assumes some knowledge and practical experience). It is also focussed on the social services settings and the challenges that social workers and adjacent roles might encounter.
Spaces are limited and we will therefore limit the number of registrations per organisation to two, to ensure as many different services as possible can benefit from this session.
Morning tea will be provided.
Venue: Helen Kelly Room, Trade Union Centre, 68 Langdons Rd, Papanui. Please note, parking is not available on-site.
This session is $25 per person plus booking fee. Please book your tickets via Humantix.
Situational Awareness Session
Detective Senior Sergeant Kelvin Holden (Police Family Protection Team) will offer a Situational Awareness session for those who undertake home visits.
In this session, Kelvin will offer helpful tips that the Police use for safe home visiting e.g. best time of day for visits, warning signs and practical tips to maximise safety.
Tea and coffee will be provided.
Venue: Helen Kelly Room, Trade Union Centre, 68 Langdons Rd, Papanui. Please note, parking is not available on-site
This session is free to attend, but please register your interest as numbers will be limited.
Reference Group Hui
2025 kicks off with connection and collaboration!
Join us for our first cross-sector hui, where you can meet up with other colleagues undertaking similar mahi, meet new people and strengthen existing relationships.
This session we’re making time for a very important conversation which will focus on the Importance of Accurate Language in Responding to Family Violence. We will explore how the way in which language is used to report family violence can influence how practitioners respond; it can continue to conceal violence or help expose it for what it is. This is an important consideration in our everyday conversations but even more so when we are making choices of how to report on acts of violence in official notes and reports. This conversation will be led and facilitated by members of the CFVC Steering Group.
We’d love to have you, and your thoughts or experiences, contribute to the conversation.
Attendance is free, but we ask that you register to help us with seating and catering. Register your attendance here.
If, after registering, you find that you can no longer attend, please email canterbury.fvc@barnardos.org.nz to cancel your place.
How to Help (for schools)
The Canterbury Family Violence Collaboration offers a free 45-minute “How to Help” workshop to schools. This workshop is designed specifically to support school staff in responding to concerns or disclosures related to family violence. The workshop can be adapted for smaller groups of staff too e.g. teacher aides, different teams etc.
The presentation focusses on practical ideas around how to help and where (and when) to get more in-depth help. It can also take into consideration a school's specific policies around FV concerns and disclosures.
We’ve found that this session fits well within teacher-only days but are happy to work with schools re a suitable time. If your school is interested in a session, please let us know a few dates/times that would suit your staff (e.g. after classes finish) and we can go from there.
Session Content:
What FV is and how it may manifest itself
Practical ideas for responding to concerns/disclosures (including school policies around this).
Services available to help
Q & A opportunity
You can contact us for bookings, or with any questions, via email. These sessions are in-school and are NOT open to the public.
Restorative Justice Summer Training Hui
Ten years after the introduction of Section 24A, Restorative Justice Ōtautahi invites you to come and connect, learn and share as they explore a wide range of topics.
The Thursday session (at the Aldersgate Centre, central Christchurch) is open to practitioners beyond Restorative Justice. Peter Thorburn from MESS NZ will be facilitating workshops on Methamphetamine, co-existing Mental Health issues, de-escalation and motivational interviewing.
To register, visit Humantix.
White Ribbon Sausage Sizzle
Barnardos will be onsite at Mitre 10 Papanui to hand out sausages, sauce and White Ribbons over lunch on Monday 25 November. Come and say hi, and grab a ribbon and a free snack!
White Ribbon Breakfast
To mark White Ribbon Day - a day to call and mobilise for an end to violence against women - and kick off the 16 days of activism against family and sexual violence that follows, CFVC will join with the Shirley Village Project to host a breakfast where we can come together to connect, korero and enjoy kai.
Local speakers (see below) Angelo Houtos, (a White Ribbon Ambassador), Matiu Brokenshire (Pathways), sharing his personal story of change, and Gwyneth Beard (from Tupono Mana Tangata), will share their experience of working to end family violence, and their experiences of supporting people using and/or experiencing violence to create safer, happier lives.
Join us over breakfast at Emmett St Church Hall, 106 Emmett St, Shirley, Christchurch, to share in this important conversation.
Please register your attendance to assist with catering.
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Angelo is a White Ribbon ambassador, and his day job is Operations Manager of Te Puna Wai Youth Justice Facility in Rolleston, working for Oranga Tamariki.
In the past Angelo has worked at Corrections and has also been involved in the Christchurch Integrated Safety Response pilot. He is recognised as being a trusted and leading voice in the family harm space and an advocate for the reduction of violence in our communities, particularly in the home.
A devoted husband, father of six and keen motorbike rider, Angelo wants to use the role of White Ribbon Ambassador to raise the awareness of the White Ribbon Campaign, and influence positive change throughout the Government agencies with which he interacts as well as in the community groups he supports.
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Gwyneth (Ngati Porou me Tainui) is Kaiwhakahaere of Tupono Mana Tangata, and is passionate about stopping violence in our whānau.
Gwyneth believes that with the right tools and skills, whanau have the ability to break the generational cycle of violence.
She has spent her time developing programmes to empower whānau to achieve that autonomy, free from violence.
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Matiu has worked in the family violence space for over 10 years.
He has lived the journey from violent man to safe man, and has a heartfelt passion to see men take accountability and become pou within the whānau unit.
Reference Group Hui
Our 20 November Reference Group hui will be the last for 2024.
Our hui are a great change to connect with colleagues through the sector, meet new people and learn more about topics relevant to everyone involved in supporting people affected by or living with family violence.
In response to requests, speakers in this hui will be from organisations working with men using and/or experiencing family violence. Speakers from Aviva ReachOut and Stopping Violence Services will be presenting and answering your questions.
This event is free to attend; a light morning tea will be provided.
It will be held at the Trade Union Centre building at 68 Langdons Rd; there is no parking onsite, so please arrive in time to park on side streets or at the Northlink Shopping Centre.
Please register so that we know how many people to cater morning tea for.
An overview of therapeutic work around relational trauma
CFVC welcomes Dr Nicki Weld, a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland and Director of CNZN Ltd, to provide a day of specialist training for CFVC members.
This session will provide an overview of therapeutic work around relational trauma, delivered in two three-hour modules. The workshop draws from Nicki Weld and Stand Children’s
Services handbook –E Ko te Matakahi Maire- Therapeutic Social Work – published in 2017 and winner of the Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers Supreme Quality
and Innovation Award 2017.
The workshop provides an overview of working therapeutically with adults who have experienced relational trauma with the intention of supporting well-being. It is aimed at generalist social workers and social service workers, not specialist mental health workers or therapists.
Workshop Objectives:
• Define relational trauma
• Describe relational trauma impacts from a holistic perspective
• Name the key components in developing a relational foundation
• Apply supportive counselling techniques to loss, grief, anxiety and anger.
• Name ways to provide psycho-education about relational trauma
• Support the development of a healthy self-relationship and interpersonal
relationships
• Explore the conscious use of self in therapeutic work.
Tickets are $35 each and limited to two tickets per purchase. Please buy your tickets via Humantix
*Update 29 October - this training is currently full; a waitlist is operating.
