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Article: Trust helps Maoris to stop violence in home
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- The Press
- Article date:
- August 31, 1999
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A Christchurch trust is trying to change Maori attitudes to
violent behaviour, particularly in the home.
He Waka Tapu, a stopping violence programme for Maori men, started
in Christchurch in 1996 and has helped about 250 men in the last 18
months.
Trust co-ordinator Daryl Gregory said the programme provided
alternative ways of working with Maori men and their whanau to
address violence in the home.
He said the programme was started because Maoris were not joining
existing programmes aimed at stopping violence.
Initially about 90 per cent of attendees were referred through the
justice system, but now it was about 40 per cent. The rest were
usually referred by the community or by word of ...