E kore au e ngaro, he kākano i rūia mai i Rangiātea

Nau mai, haere mai, tauti mai.
This website is for people who want to stop violence that they are seeing or experiencing, but who don’t want to rely on the police and courts, social workers or agencies to help. It uses a community-based approach to stop violence.

The site contains information about interpersonal violence—where someone is hurting or has hurt someone else, and resources for people who want to end violence. Whether you have been or are being hurt, you are hurting someone, you care about those people or you see what is happening and want to help.

There are sections on this website for:

You don’t need to read everything.  Find the tools or information that help you.

Online safety

Is it safe to read this website where you are? If you need to quickly hide that you are looking at this site, the quick exit button will close this page and take you to Stuff, a news website.

Your computer will normally keep a history of pages you have looked at. Many browsers will delete that list with the shortcut ctrl+shift+del. There are detailed instructions for most browsers at Computer Hope.

If the person hurting you knows enough about computers, the safest place for you to read this may be at a library, at a friend or whanaunga's house or at work.