Child Matters
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Did you know that clean, green beautiful New Zealand has one of the worst records for child abuse in the developed world? On average a child is abused to death every 5 weeks in our country. 57 children a day are proven to be abused - and that’s just the ones that are brought to the attention of authorities.
Child Abuse is the nations single most important public health challenge affecting communities, business, justice, health, education and social services.
It is estimated that 1 million people are either currently suffering abuse or living with the long term effects of past child abuse.
This is affecting every one of the nearly 4 ½ million people in our country in some way…
So what needs to happen? We must:
• Increase awareness of the issue and create an environment where people are talking about child abuse
• Provide people in a position to help with the skills to be able to do so
• Create a society where child abuse is not tolerated and where everyone takes responsibility for keeping our children safe.
Child Matters is New Zealand’s specialist child abuse prevention organisation working at all levels of our society to make the changes necessary to keep our children safe. Our purpose is to inspire New Zealanders to ensure every child flourishes in an environment safe from all abuse.
We do this through raising understanding and awareness of the issue, educating and inspiring those working with children and influencing change in society’s attitudes and behaviours.
Winning a donation from Sovereign will help us achieve:
Child Matters will use the donated funds to ensure that those people who are in the best position to help keep our children safe, are provided the skills and training to do so.
Training and education is key in preventing child abuse…
Our details:
| Registration No: | CC21136 |
| Region: | Hawke's Bay/East Coast, Waikato/Bay of Plenty/Rotorua, Manawatu/Wanganui/Kapiti, Northland, Taranaki, Wellington, Auckland, Central Auckland, South Auckland, North Auckland, West Auckland, East Auckland, Canterbury/South Canterbury, Southland, West Coast, Nelson/Marlborough |
| Category: | Children's health - mental wellness and support for emotional trauma, Early childhood support and child shelter assistance, Parental advice and support, Children's health and rehabilitation |
| Contact Person: | Rachel McGuire |
| Address: | PO Box 679, Hamilton |
| Telephone: | (07) 838 3370 |
| Email: | rachel@childmatters.org.nz |
| Website: | www.childmatters.org.nz |
| No. helped nationally: | Child Matters has trained around 20,000 people since it was established in 1994. |
| No. helped per project: | Last year Child Matters trained approximately 2000 people who work with children. Each adult trained has the potential to impact on the lives of numerous children, and prevent a huge amount of pain and suffering for children. |
| Existing sponsors or funders: | Child Matters seeks funding from various regional and national funders to allow us to provide our programmes to participants at a cost that makes it affordable to the people who need it most. |
