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While New Zealand has made some good progress in getting the topic of domestic / partner violence well-publicised and increasingly well researched (which it needs to, having one of the, if not THE, highest rates in the world http://goo.gl/UgM8sE ), it certainly needs to do much more to assist survivors of such violence, and often related other forms of childhood adversity. It has recently again been discussed at a national conference for nurses. I have been invited to submit a discussion paper, from the viewpoint of a mental health service consumer / survivor of such childhood adversity to one of the country's peak bodies, going by the Maori name Nga Hau E Wha http://goo.gl/dSFkx5

 

In August I contributed material to a member's request for information on trauma-informed hospital systems, and I would like to present in my paper mentions of developments elsewhere in the world -- I was excited by participants' mention of such developments during the recent SAMHSA webinar on Trauma Informed Suicide Prevention.

 

Could people please contact me with relevant information.

 

I'm also interested in forming a New Zealand e-group of members / potential members of ACEsConnection, but lack means of surveying members' national locations, so could people interested in forming such a group also please contact me, whether they be current members of ACEsConnection or not.

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Hi there Russell,

I'm another worker in the NZ mental health and addictions sector, I don't believe we've met yet? I'm based in Christchurch, but Dunedin is my home town.

 

I'm familiar with Nga Hau e Wha and connected to the South Island consumer reps for this roopu.  I think a NZ group for ACEs is a great idea and would love to be part of it. You can check me out further via my profile here, and I'm also on Facebook, including BINZ, a Facebook page for tangata whaiora/service users/consumer activists and systemic advocates.  Possibly a closed Facebook page is a good way to set up a NZ e-group for ACES?

absolutely delighted to hear from you!!! didn't think I'd ever make a kiwi connection here :-D   I'm no longer working in addictions and mental health -- have retired -- but have worked in such settings in Auckland, New Plymouth, and Whanganui --- at the end of a long career mostly spent in Australia, in various places, and a couple of years in England's "north". So, yeah, I'd love to hear more from you, what field are you working in, specifically?  You'll find out some more about me at my webpage (it's free and easy to set up with my old copy of CoffeeCup HTML Editor!) http://russwilson.coffeecup.com/  the site hasn't been actually "active" for quite a while --- got discouraged, thought it might be useful to survivors, but mostly students visited and "took part" in accessing the resources. The website also has a photo of me, and some info about my own ACEs -- naturally, I don't include all details but ....  So, looking forward to hearing from you again, and maybe we can "chat" some more about things in New Zealand -- history, possible developments --- especially not working down here, I'm out of touch with some things elsewhere, but I do know that some good things are happening with Trauma Informed Care in Christchurch, if not here. Maybe you can even help me work out how to find others in ACEsConnection who are in New Zealand?

Lovely to make the connection Russell!  I've roamed around the ACEs too high site and discovered from the "map" that there are apparently 9 members in New Zealand.  Wasn't too straightforward to search through 5000+ members for who the other 7 people are, but then I discovered the "advanced" search function and searched on keywords using "Auckland", "Wellington", etc.  You've got one other member in Dunedin - try an advanced search on "Dunedin" and you'll find her name! 

 

Of the 7 folk in addition to you and me, I know 4 of them through previous roles I've had in the sector and I believe I've also met the member from Dunedin.  The other two names aren't known to me - yet!

 

So that's a bit of progress.  Good to know we're not alone on these isolated islands at the bottom of the world.

don't know how you feel about sharing your email, so we can keep in touch about "local" developments, but I've begun swapping a few emails with a nurse educator at Southland DHB, Colette Ryan Rafter, who delivered a talk on TIC at the recent MH Nurses conference, and who has today sent me this email --- great news imho:

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