Health professional resources

• Family Violence Assessment and Intervention Guideline: Child abuse and intimate partner violence (docx, 2.5 MB)
• Family Violence Assessment and Intervention Guideline: Child abuse and intimate partner violence (pdf, 3.3 MB)

• Family Violence Intervention Guidelines: Elder Abuse and Neglect (pdf, 2.5 MB)

• Recognising and Responding to Partner Abuse (doc, 642 KB)
• Recognising and Responding to Partner Abuse (pdf, 377 KB)

• We Talk About Family Violence Here Because It Affects Your Health (PDF, 220 KB)
• We Talk About Family Violence Here Because it’s a Health Issue (PDF, 173 KB)
• We Talk About Family Violence Here Because We Care and We’re Trained to Help (PDF, 253 KB)
• We Talk About Family Violence Here (PDF, 2.7 MB)

• I’m Concerned Someone is Hurting You – female version (PDF, 206 KB)
• I’m Concerned Someone is Hurting You – male version (PDF, 172 KB)

• Family Violence Can Affect You and Your Family’s Health (PDF, 206 KB)

• Does Your Partner Ever Force You to Have Sex? (PDF, 205 KB)

• Treating Violence as a Health Issue: Poster with 5 quotes (PDF, 69.5 KB)
• Treating Violence as a Health Issue: Poster with 3 quotes (PDF, 8.2 MB)
• Treating Violence as a Health Issue: Poster with photo (PDF, 8.2 MB)

• Violence Intervention Programme 8 panel wallet card (pdf, 98 KB)

• Partner Abuse: This is Not Love, This is Control (pdf, 1.6 MB)

• Intimate Partner Violence Guide: Routine enquiry and intervention (PDF, 64 KB)
• Intimate Partner Violence: Health and risk assessment (pdf, 59 KB)

• Child Abuse and Neglect Guide: Identification and intervention (pdf, 60 KB)
• Child Abuse and Neglect Guide: Health and risk assessment (pdf, 64 KB)

• Child Abuse and Neglect Intervention Flowchart (pdf, 559 KB)

• Intimate Partner Violence Intervention Flowchart (pdf, 544 KB)

• Increasing VIP Programmes’ Responsiveness to Māori (pdf, 1.3 MB)
• Increasing VIP Programmes’ Responsiveness to Māori (docx, 226 KB)
• User Guide (pdf, 214 KB)
• User Guide (docx, 150 KB)

NZ Family Violence Clearinghouse

A selection of reports, articles and resources on family violence (including intimate partner violence, child abuse and neglect, elder abuse and more).

MEDSAC

IPV and Family Violence resources, and training and support for clinicians working in Sexual Assault Assessment Services or the national Non-Fatal Strangulation Service.

Goodfellow webinar (2021)

Provides a brief overview of health impacts, asking and responding to family violence in primary care.

Pharmac seminar series (2018)

Recorded seminar on sexual assault and intimate partner violence for health providers.

Starship Children’s Hospital guidelines for Abuse and Neglect

Whāraurau trauma-informed care resources

Provides resources and training in trauma-informed care for children and tamariki.

Healthify

A collection of useful content about elder abuse for clinicians, including an overview of the topic and links to other sources of information.

Te Tari Kaumatua, Office for Seniors, Raising Awareness of Elder Abuse

Provides elder abuse awareness resources and research, as well as information on preventing and getting help for suspected cases of elder abuse.

Information Sharing Guidance for Health Professionals from 1 July 2019 (Ministry of Health) (PDF, 800 KB) 

Children’s Act Requirements (Oranga Tamariki)

The Light Project

Resources and research findings around online abuse and the impacts of pornography.

Agencies and services have developed their own resources. Please see these related websites:

• Find support – ACC
• Ministry of Social Development
• Ministry of Justice
• Police
• Women's Refuge
• Brainwave Trust
• Shine
• Safe to Talk
• Are you ok?
• Saatslink (MEDSAC) – Service directory