Aviva’s purposeful peer support is for anyone who has experienced, or used violence or abuse. It is for people of all genders, who have experience of both historic and recent violence or abuse.

Aviva Purposeful Peer Support connects you with another person who has used or experienced violence/abuse, and moved on to a life free from violence.

Peer support is founded on mutual understanding, acceptance, trust, and shared knowledge of how to become and remain safe.

There are no assessments or pre-determined outcomes, and you can access peer support for whatever part of your journey you are on.

We offer both one-on-one peer support, and workshops. For details of upcoming workshops, see below.

Aviva's Purposeful Peer Support Service often runs workshops to empower communities and professionals to better support people. For details of upcoming courses, see below:

Course to support community, whānau & child wellbeing

It takes a village to raise a child. Would you like to better understand how you can play your part? What is your role as a parent, auntie/uncle, neighbour, friend? We are offering a five session training opportunity to unpack a variety of topics, relating to child & whānau safety, through the lens of lived experience.

This training includes:

• what we love about our tamariki;
• raising children in Aotearoa;
• barriers to wellbeing;
• what is child abuse?

and is designed to:

• reduce the need for specialist intervention;
• offer you the opportunity to learn the same child safety skills as 'the professionals';
• help you identify when to step up, step in or step away.

Course runs every Monday from 22 February-22 March 2021, 9.30AM - 2.30PM, at The Loft, Eastgate Mall, Linwood, Christchurch

Registration required - register here

For more information, contact [email protected]

Value: $400 per person. Cost: $0

This course is fully funded by the ANZ Staff Foundation