About Shine 

What is Shine?

Shine’s mission is to create safer homes in New Zealand every day. Family violence is a massive and largely hidden problem in New Zealand and Shine works every day to support Kiwis to be safe from family violence.

Shine was founded in 1990, and we’ve been working since then to make New Zealand homes violence-free. We are a leading specialist family violence service provider.

We offer a range of services that help people experiencing family violence get safe and stay safe and motivate and support men who have used abuse to change. We also deliver a range of training and education programmes, such as our DVFREE workplace programme and Shine RESPOND community professionals training.

We work in partnership with many organisations, from the NZ Police and Oranga Tamariki to District Health Boards and other healthcare providers to corporates and community groups.

Currently, we only have the resources to help a fraction of the people who need our help. With your help through Light It Orange, we can raise the funds we so desperately need to ensure that everyone who experiences family violence can receive the support they need to get safe and stay safe.

Did you know that in New Zealand:

  • Every 3 minutes NZ Police attend a family violence callout(1)

  • 1 in 3 women have experienced physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence in their lifetime. When psychological and emotional abuse is included, that figures rises to 55% (2)

  • 1 woman is killed by a family member every 3.5 weeks (3)

  • 2.4 people have been killed by a family member on average every month over the last 10 years, included in this, 1 child is killed by a family member every 5 weeks (4)

(1) p.16 NZ Police annual-report-2021-2022
(2) (Fanslow & Robinson, 2011). https://nzfvc.org.nz/frequently-asked-questions
(3) Based on data provided to the Herald by the police under the Official Information Act  - https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/a-decade-of-violent-death-new-zealands-158-lost-women/DHNQX3XBIJB5JL2YR63ORLAXEA/
(4) (UNICEF Innocenti Report) https://www.childmatters.org.nz/insights/nz-statistics/#:~:text=On%20average%2C%201%20child%20dies%20every%205%20weeks%20in%20New%20Zealand

 

Help families get safe and stay safe