"Assisting to build positive relationships"
Tamariki Programme
An empowering and educational programme to assist children work through the impacts of being a witness or survivor of domestic violence.
Goals of the progamme:
- To involve primary caregivers so that there is a transfer of learning to the home environment
- To assist in removing barriers to a child’s development resulting from the abuse
- To assist the children to understand what has happened
- To help the children understand why they are not to blame, and to assist children to understand what has happened
- To nurture all aspects of the child’s life; Te Taha Whanau, Te Taha Tinana, Te Taha Hinengaro and Te Taha Wairua. (family, physical, mental and spiritual well-being)
- To strengthen self-esteem
- To help children develop safety plans and support networks
- To strengthen whanau for their future - whakawhanaungatanga
- To assist the children to build positive relationships and to learn non-violent methods of conflict resolution
- To give parents/caregivers an opportunity to increase their understanding of their child's feelings and behaviour in response to their experience of domestic violence