“The support we got from Shine felt like being airlifted to safety. Shine safe@home affected us in many positive ways – we regained our peace-of-mind, felt secure, and started to feel much safer while asleep at night.”
Congrats to the Ministry of Justice for being the second organisation and the first public sector employer to receive Shine's DVFREE Tick for their domestic violence staff programme. Shine's Jill Proudfoot and Holly Carrington presented a DVFREE Tick certificate to Ministry Chief Executive Andrew Bridgman this afternoon.
Meeting the DVFREE Tick criteria ensures an effective help-seeking pathway for employees who are experiencing domestic abuse, and also helps staff know what to do if they know or suspect a colleague is experiencing, or perpetrating, domestic violence.
With strong support from leadership, a team of people at the Ministry put in a lot of hard work and went beyond the DVFREE Tick requirements in training nearly all of their managers throughout the country in just a matter of months (the Tick allows large employers several years to reach a threshold of 90% of managers being trained). They are now embarking on face to face domestic violence training for all of their 3800 staff. Andrew Bridgman is urging other public sector organisations to follow its lead.
To learn more about DVFREE and the DVFREE Tick, go to www.dvfree.org.nz
Months of brutal violence led up to Auckland mum Chozyn Koroheke's murder 09-Apr-2018 | Shine News
Chozyn Koroheke suffered brutal violence at the hands of her partner Turiarangi Tai for months before he shot and killed her. Shine's Jill Proudfoot said a "horrifying" number of family violence incidents lead to death.
The Peggy Purl knitting group at Bupa Glenburn Retirement Village in Auckland give back to their community by donating the knitted goods they have made to local charities. This month they donated knitted goods to Shine.
A woman badly beaten by her husband says her 5-year-old daughter saved her life by walking in and witnessing the attack. ‘Kristen’ tells her story and how she was helped by Shine. Kristen supported Shine's annual Light It Orange campaign, raising almost $4000 for the charity to enable them to help more children living in abusive homes.
