Growing family violence prevention – Budget 2022

The Government is continuing to invest in innovative community-led and national social change initiatives that will work together to reduce the factors that cause harm and enhance the factors that support wellbeing.

This initiative is part of a whole-of-government Joint Venture package of $114.52 million over four years to prevent and respond to family violence and sexual violence.

This initiative invests $37.625 million over three years to grow community capability, trial new and innovative prevention approaches, and shift the attitudes, beliefs, norms, and behaviours that sustain violence.

• This funding will strengthen and expand MSD’s current prevention work programmes:
  • E Tū Whānau: a kaupapa Māori initiative to positively change behaviour, attitudes, and norms to improve wellbeing and reduce family violence
  • Pasefika Proud: a social change initiative grounded in Pacific values, working with eight key Pacific nationalities in New Zealand to prevent family violence
  • The Campaign for Action on Family Violence (including the It’s not OK campaign): a social change initiative focused on supporting positive behaviour change for men using violence.
• It will also support the development of three new prevention approaches for:
  • Ethnic communities
  • Elder abuse
  • The #LoveBetter youth campaign.

This investment will enable MSD to test, learn, strengthen, and further evaluate what works well and makes a positive difference for families, whānau and communities in Aotearoa New Zealand.

• This initiative is focused on delivering on the following Te Aorerekura actions:
  • Action 21: Deliver prevention initiatives: Campaign for Action on Family Violence, E Tū Whānau and Pasefika Proud as well as for other population groups including older people
  • Action 23: Develop prevention programmes for ethnic communities.
• The long-term outcomes of this initiative include:
  • Improved safety and wellbeing for families, whānau and communities
  • Increased family and whānau stability and decreased impact on children
  • Reduction in family violence and sexual violence, including the intergenerational transmission of violence.

Costs (operating)