Te Aorerekura 2023: Annual hui
We are one of many agencies, organisations and communities working together under Te Aorerekura, the national strategy to eliminate family and sexual violence.
E tio te tūī, e ketekete te kākā, e korihi te kokako | It takes many instruments to make a symphony
This week around 300 people gathered at Sky Stadium in Wellington with many hundreds more joining online for the Annual Te Aorerekura Hui on 14 June.
Te Aorerekura is the National Strategy to Eliminate Family Violence and Sexual Violence. It creates a framework for our collective work in family violence and sexual violence.
The annual hui brought together communities, tangata whenua, organisations and government agencies to learn and enable our work to implement Te Aorerekura.
“We’re proud to be leading and contributing to a number of actions under Te Aorerekura”, says Megan Main, Chief Executive, who attended the annual hui.
The annual hui was also a chance for ACC and other agencies to provide updates on progress on the actions they are responsible for under Te Aorerekura. ACC is responsible for 10 of the 40 actions under Te Aorerekura.
Progress on Te Aorerekura actions
It will take a generation of sustained effort, collaboration and investment to create the changes needed to achieve safe communities free from violence.
When building a new whare or house, we need to start with strong foundations – and many of the actions ACC is responsible for under Te Aorerekura are about building those strong foundations.
For example, with the other Te Puna Aonui agencies, we’ve looked at how and where government is investing in prevention activity to help us identify where we need to invest more, and to come up with a plan for this investment.
At the annual hui, we provided an update on action 19 and 35 mahi to develop Kaupapa Māori solutions to strengthen and heal whānau through localised, whānau-led solutions. Over the next two years we’re appointing regional design panels in each of the 12 rohe (regions) across the motu (country).
Regional design panels in Te Tai Tokerau and Tāmaki Makaurau have recently been announced, and both panels have started to design their local models of care and prevention initiatives.
Northern partners to design kaupapa Māori solutions (acc.co.nz)
Action 26 mahi brings together diverse community expertise to better understand what is needed to nurture and protect children and tamariki. We’ve commissioned five community partners – all with different communities of interest including Pasifika, Rainbow, disabled people, those living rurally and new migrants.
Our collective learning approach has involved several wānanga, with the final one scheduled for September. Here our partners will share child-focussed sexual abuse prevention resources, case studies and approaches. We hope that what is developed and learnt can be shared to inspire others.
Our role in family violence and sexual violence
We are one of many agencies, organisations and communities working together to strengthen, heal and respond across the family violence and sexual violence systems. We are one of ten government agencies leading and supporting Te Aorerekura, Aotearoa’s strategy to eliminate family violence and sexual violence.
ACC has three key roles in the family violence and sexual violence systems with dedicated teams in each of these areas:
- Strengthening the factors that protect against family violence and sexual violence to prevent harm happening in the first place.
- Providing support services for people who have experienced sexual violence.
- Creating a safe, supportive workplace for our kaimahi (staff) and kiritaki (clients) who are experiencing, or using, family violence.
More information
ACC’s family violence and sexual violence mahi - Family violence and sexual violence (acc.co.nz)
Annual Te Aorerekura Hui - 2023 Annual Te Aorerekura Hui - Learning Together | Te Puna Aonui
Te Aorerekura - National Strategy to Eliminate Family Violence and Sexual Violence | Te Puna Aonui