General Brochure
General Brochure [PDF 170KB]
(updated April 2025)
Service Brochures
Adult Services [PDF 1513 KB]
(updated July 2021)
Sexual Violence Services [PDF 542 KB]
(updated May 2025)
Tamariki Services - for children [PDF 1429 KB]
(updated June 2021)
Rangatahi Services - for youth [PDF 1976 KB]
(updated February 2025)
ReachOut - for people using or at risk of using violence [PDF 1956 KB]
(updated August 2021)
Seuga - for Pasifika People [PDF 20.5 MB]
(updated June 2023)
Educational Programme Brochures
Courageous Steps Adults' Education Programme [PDF 6.4 MB]
(updated September 2022)
Tamariki Relationship and Individual Safety Education (RISE) [PDF 21 MB]
(updated September 2022)
2021-2024
2009 - 2020
- 2019/20 Annual Report [PDF 672 KB]
- 2018/19 Annual Report [PDF 742 KB]
- 2017/18 Annual Report [PDF 13 MB]
- 2016/17 Annual Report [PDF 10 MB]
- 2015/16 Annual Report [PDF 9.5 MB]
- 2014/15 Annual Report [PDF 9.1 MB]
- 2013/14 Annual Report {PDF 488 KB]
- 2012/13 Annual Report [PDF 3 MB
- 2011/12 Annual Report [PDF 1493 KB]
- 2010/11 Annual Report [PDF 7.5 MB]
- 2009/10 Annual Report [PDF 2.4 MB]
- 2008/09 Annual Report [PDF 8.5 MB]
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2025
Let's Talk Autumn 2025 [PDF 1137 KB]
2024
Let's Talk Summer 2024 [PDF 591 KB]
Let's Talk Autumn 2024 [PDF 398 KB]
2023
Let's Talk Summer 2023 [PDF 703 KB]
Let's Talk Autumn 2023 - The 50th Anniversary Edition [PDF 1128 KB]
2022
Let's Talk Summer 2022 [PDF 9.6 MB]
Let's Talk Autumn 2022 [PDF 459 KB]
2021
Let's Talk Summer 2021 [PDF 348 KB]
The Advocate Autumn 2021 [PDF 286 KB]
2009-2020
- The Advocate Summer 2020 [PDF 2.5 MB]
- The Advocate Autumn 2020 - The COVID-19 Edition [PDF 337 KB]
- The Advocate Summer 2019 [PDF 1163 KB]
- The Advocate Autumn 2019 [PDF 1400 KB]
- The Advocate Summer 2018 [PDF 738 KB]
- The Advocate Autumn 2018 [PDF 872 KB]
- The Advocate Autumn 2017 [PDF 6.2 MB]
- The Advocate Summer 2016 [PDF 719 KB]
- The Advocate Autumn 2016 [PDF 712 KB]
- The Advocate Spring 2015 [PDF 665 KB]
- The Advocate Autumn 2015 [PDF 585 KB]
- The Advocate Summer 2014 [PDF 468 KB]
- The Advocate Spring 2014 [PDF 547 KB]
- The Advocate Autumn 2014 [PDF 712 KB]
- The Advocate Summer 2013 [PDF 679 KB]
- The Advocate Winter 2013 [PDF 553 KB]
- The Advocate Autumn 2013 [PDF 318 KB]
- The Advocate Summer 2012 [PDF 376 KB]
- The Advocate Winter 2012 [PDF 296 KB]
- The Advocate Autumn 2012 [PDF 216 KB]
- The Advocate Summer 2011 [PDF 354 KB]
- The Advocate Winter 2011 [PDF 454 KB]
- The Advocate Autumn 2011 [PDF 432 KB]
- The Advocate Summer 2010 [PDF 277 KB]
- The Advocate Spring 2010 [PDF 2.7 MB]
- The Advocate Winter 2010 [PDF 549 KB]
- The Advocate Autumn 2010 [PDF 125 KB]
- The Advocate Spring 2009 [PDF 289 KB]
Aviva Sexual Violence Youth Service Project
In March 2020, Aviva's Sexual Assault Support Service Canterbury (SASSC) team received funding from the Vodafone Foundation to commission two pieces of work to better understand and respond to the needs of youth who have experienced sexual assault.
These were completed in November 2021. This included an academic research project including a literature review and primary research to establish what constitutes international best practice, and a co-design project to engage Aviva staff and clients to capture and better understand the present and past experiences of youth engaged in sexual harm support services. The latter being aspirational in nature in terms of what a future service specifically catering to youth could look like.
Aviva's condensed report, "Doing Better by Our Rangatahi" [PDF 944 KB]
Full academic research report [PDF 1969 KB]
Full co-design report [PDF 664 KB]
Aviva Youth Service Evaluation
In October 2016, with support from the Wayne Francis Charitable Trust, the Aviva Youth Service began supporting people aged 12-25 who had experienced and/or used family violence. The service aimed to increase safety, build self-esteem, improve mental health and, ultimately, break the intergenerational cycle of violence. After delivering the service to 113 young Cantabrians over two years, we are pleased to share how the service has built hope, a sense of identity and brighter futures for young people in our community.
Aviva Youth Service Evaluation Report [PDF 1977 KB]
Aviva Peer Support Evaluation
In July 2016 tertiary students Holly Richardson and Lara Moses undertook an evaluation of Aviva's Purposeful Peer Support, four years into its operation.
Sexual Assault Support Service Canterbury (SASSC) Aviva, in partnership with START, has been operating the SASSC service since July 2014. This research project - Sexual Assault Support Service Canterbury - Research to Inform Service Design - was undertaken to inform the optimal model for development, growth and adaptation of this service for those who have acute and/or historic experiences of sexual violence.
ReachOut
ReachOut was first launched in April 2012 as a new response to men who had used violence or abusive tactics against those closest to them. The service was developed using Police Incident Reports of family violence as a key pathway through which to reach out to men and offer support to change.
Men's Accommodation
- Click here for 'Models of Alternative Accommodation Support for Men Using Family Violence'
Women Moving Away from Violence
The research project 'Women Moving Away From Violence - Planning It, Doing It' explores the factors which contribute to women’s decisions to walk away from the violence within their relationships.
The research explores what is known about the context of violence and abuse as experienced by women and determines what it is that contributes to the development of their skills and strategies as they seek healthy outcomes for themselves and their children. The research will be useful to inform policy makers and to develop guidelines for service providers and practitioners that will enable a more appropriate and effective response to women’s experience of family violence.
Aviva (formerly Christchurch Women’s Refuge) and Family Help Trust worked with Te Awatea Violence Research Centre on this project. Our thanks to the women who volunteered their stories so that others could learn from their experience. The interviews were carried out by Yvonne Crighton-Hill, a lecturer in the Department of Social Work at The University of Canterbury. The research project was funded by the Department of Internal Affairs (Lotteries Commission).
Specialist Peer Support
Read the report on our research with women and men who have overcome family violence and their views on developing a specialist peer support service.
- Specialist Peer Support: Reframing The Journey From Lived Experience of Domestic Violence - Results from research conducted 2011-2012 by Dr Lesley Campbell, University of Canterbury, on behalf of Aviva - April 2012.
- Read also the article published in The Journal of Te Awatea Violence Research Centre in 2012; 'Peer Support: Reframing the Journey from Lived Experience of Domestic Violence' (Dr Lesley Campbell and Claire Gray with Beryl Brogden (Aviva Social Inclusion Manager)