March 8th is International Women's Day (IWD) – a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women's equality.

NCWNZ has created a list of events celebrating IWD 2026. To view them all, please visit the National Council of Women's IWD 2026 Events page.

March 8th is International Women's Day (IWD) – a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women's equality.

NCWNZ has created a list of events celebrating IWD 2026. To view them all, please visit the National Council of Women's IWD 2026 Events page.

For more information and to register, see the event page.

By combining the presenters, Louise and Debbs', lived experiences of both family and sexual violence, with their specialist practice knowledge, skills and capability, the true position of sexual violence in family violence perpetration will be exposed. With an increase in awareness of indicators of sexual violence within family violence, the intersection between the two can no longer be overlooked. Sexual violence can and is a form of family violence, and with increased practitioner knowledge, the voices of primary victims of family and sexual violence will be recognised.

Through attending this course attendees will:

• Obtain a deeper understanding of both sexual violence and family violence indicators and impacts.
• Learn about current and relevant sexual violence and family violence legislation, court processes, and effective support strategies.
• Obtain a deeper understanding of sexual violence in the context of Family Violence and how this is often missed, minimised or misunderstood as family violence.
• Gain understanding of coercive control as a tactic to coerce primary victims of family violence into acts of sexual violence.
• Develop knowledge of resistance strategies and how victims resist family and sexual violence through acts of active submission and active compliance.
• Be provided with practice tools and guidelines developed by victim-survivors and that are embedded with and informed by the voice of lived experience of sexual and family violence.

Please direct all questions to the organiser.

For more information and to register, see the event page.

By combining the presenters, Louise and Debbs', lived experiences of both family and sexual violence, with their specialist practice knowledge, skills and capability, the true position of sexual violence in family violence perpetration will be exposed. With an increase in awareness of indicators of sexual violence within family violence, the intersection between the two can no longer be overlooked. Sexual violence can and is a form of family violence, and with increased practitioner knowledge, the voices of primary victims of family and sexual violence will be recognised.

Through attending this course attendees will:

• Obtain a deeper understanding of both sexual violence and family violence indicators and impacts.
• Learn about current and relevant sexual violence and family violence legislation, court processes, and effective support strategies.
• Obtain a deeper understanding of sexual violence in the context of Family Violence and how this is often missed, minimised or misunderstood as family violence.
• Gain understanding of coercive control as a tactic to coerce primary victims of family violence into acts of sexual violence.
• Develop knowledge of resistance strategies and how victims resist family and sexual violence through acts of active submission and active compliance.
• Be provided with practice tools and guidelines developed by victim-survivors and that are embedded with and informed by the voice of lived experience of sexual and family violence.

Please direct all questions to the organiser.

For more information and to register, visit the event page.

This webinar will present findings from research on children’s experiences and perspectives regarding contact with their father in the context of post-separation intimate partner violence (IPV). We will begin by highlighting the importance of considering children’s views when making decisions about contact with their father and by identifying factors that support their meaningful participation. The webinar will also examine the conditions that help children feel safe and at ease in these situations. Finally, it will explore avenues for supporting a reparation process for children who have been exposed to IPV.

By attending this Webinar, participants will be better able to:

• Identify factors that promote children's participation in decision-making regarding contact with their father
• Identify, from the children's perspective, conditions that help them feel safe and comfortable during contact with their father
• Explore ways to support a healing process for children who have experienced domestic violence

NOTE: This Webinar will run in French with simultaneous English and American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation. A Webinar recording will be made available after the Webinar. Register for the Webinar and receive an email when the recording is posted. See previous webinar recordings here.

Please direct all queries to the organiser: gbvln@uwo.ca.

For more information and to register, visit the event page.

This webinar will present findings from research on children’s experiences and perspectives regarding contact with their father in the context of post-separation intimate partner violence (IPV). We will begin by highlighting the importance of considering children’s views when making decisions about contact with their father and by identifying factors that support their meaningful participation. The webinar will also examine the conditions that help children feel safe and at ease in these situations. Finally, it will explore avenues for supporting a reparation process for children who have been exposed to IPV.

By attending this Webinar, participants will be better able to:

• Identify factors that promote children's participation in decision-making regarding contact with their father
• Identify, from the children's perspective, conditions that help them feel safe and comfortable during contact with their father
• Explore ways to support a healing process for children who have experienced domestic violence

NOTE: This Webinar will run in French with simultaneous English and American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation. A Webinar recording will be made available after the Webinar. Register for the Webinar and receive an email when the recording is posted. See previous webinar recordings here.

Please direct all queries to the organiser: gbvln@uwo.ca.

For more information and to register, please visit the event page.

ECLIPSE's Child Protection and Family Violence training course provides participants with a greater understanding of child protection when family violence exists. This course will introduce you to important aspects of child protection, the complexities produced by family violence, legislation, and practitioner obligations and responses.

Course Outcomes:

• Be introduced to the dynamics and impacts of family violence and child abuse
• Have a greater understanding of child development and the effects of family violence on children's development
• Learn about the impacts of family violence on parenting and the protective nature of relationships
• Be exposed to legislation relating to family violence and child protection
• Learn about how practitioners can respond to concerns for children when family violence exists, including how to work with Oranga Tamariki
• Grow in your knowledge and confidence to work with whānau when there are concerns for the safety or wellbeing of children.

For all questions, please contact the organiser.

For more information and to register, please visit the event page.

ECLIPSE's Child Protection and Family Violence training course provides participants with a greater understanding of child protection when family violence exists. This course will introduce you to important aspects of child protection, the complexities produced by family violence, legislation, and practitioner obligations and responses.

Course Outcomes:

• Be introduced to the dynamics and impacts of family violence and child abuse
• Have a greater understanding of child development and the effects of family violence on children's development
• Learn about the impacts of family violence on parenting and the protective nature of relationships
• Be exposed to legislation relating to family violence and child protection
• Learn about how practitioners can respond to concerns for children when family violence exists, including how to work with Oranga Tamariki
• Grow in your knowledge and confidence to work with whānau when there are concerns for the safety or wellbeing of children.

For all questions, please contact the organiser.

For more information and to register, visit the event page.

This Shine DVFREE training aims to prepare the ‘First Responders’ in any organisation to provide safe and effective support for employees experiencing domestic and family violence, while maintaining professional boundaries.

This Training will prepare ‘First Responders’ to:

• Understand the role of a First Responder and its boundaries.
• Practise responding to people experiencing family violence using the Six Step Response Tool
• Broadly understand accountability and support for change for employees who use domestic violence.

For more information, please contact the organisers: phone 09 815 4601 (option 4) or email dvfree@2shine.org.nz.

For more information and to register, visit the event page.

This Shine DVFREE training aims to prepare the ‘First Responders’ in any organisation to provide safe and effective support for employees experiencing domestic and family violence, while maintaining professional boundaries.

This Training will prepare ‘First Responders’ to:

• Understand the role of a First Responder and its boundaries.
• Practise responding to people experiencing family violence using the Six Step Response Tool
• Broadly understand accountability and support for change for employees who use domestic violence.

For more information, please contact the organisers: phone 09 815 4601 (option 4) or email dvfree@2shine.org.nz.

Additional training dates:

• Tuesday 9 June 2026, 9:30am-3:30pm, Taupo.

To learn more and to register, visit the Safeguarding Children's training calendar.

This training is intended as an introduction or refresher to the essentials of safeguarding and child protection. Attendees will gain an understanding of the impact of child abuse and neglect, including family violence and sexual violence, along with the knowledge of what to do to prevent and minimise the risk of harm to children and young people, tamariki and rangatahi. Attendees will gain confidence in the actions they need to take when worried about a child or young person.

Please direct all enquiries to the organiser.

Additional training dates:

• Tuesday 9 June 2026, 9:30am-3:30pm, Taupo.

To learn more and to register, visit the Safeguarding Children's training calendar.

This training is intended as an introduction or refresher to the essentials of safeguarding and child protection. Attendees will gain an understanding of the impact of child abuse and neglect, including family violence and sexual violence, along with the knowledge of what to do to prevent and minimise the risk of harm to children and young people, tamariki and rangatahi. Attendees will gain confidence in the actions they need to take when worried about a child or young person.

Please direct all enquiries to the organiser.

For more information and to register, please see the event page.

Hoake Tātou | Walk With Me has been designed to bring service providers and support agencies together, help strengthen understanding of the barriers men face when seeking help, and highlight the benefits of a purposeful peer support and wellbeing approach to support recovery.

The presentation content includes:

• Safe access and effective engagement of male survivors with support services
• Dispelling some of the common myths about male victims of sexual harm
• Navigate the misunderstandings that create barriers to engagement with support services
• Highlight the role of lived experience as an effective engagement model
• Collaboration and partnerships to welcome and embrace cultural and gender diversity within the male survivor community

In total, 26 events will be held in 17 towns and cities, featuring a panel of presenters at each, including male survivors of sexual abuse.

Please direct all enquiries to the organiser.

Upcoming dates:

• ‍Christchurch: 7  October 2025, 10.00am  & 2.00pm
• ‍Nelson: 8  October 2025, 2.00pm
• ‍Auckland  North: 15  October 2025, 9.30am
• ‍Auckland  Central: 15  October 2025, 2.00pm
• ‍Auckland  Central: 16  October 2025, 9.30am
• ‍Auckland  South: 16  October 2025, 2.00pm
• ‍Hamilton: 29  October 2025, 10.00am  & 2.00pm
• ‍Wellington  – Lower Hutt: 11  November 2025, 9.30am
• ‍Wellington  – Porirua: 11  November 2025, 2.00pm
• ‍Wellington  Central: 12  November 2025, 10.00am  & 2.00pm
• ‍Tauranga: 25  November 2025, 10.00am
• ‍Rotorua: 26  November 2025, 10.00am
• ‍Taupo: 27  November 2025, 10.00am
• ‍Hastings: 9  December 2025, 9.30am
• ‍Napier: 9  December 2025, 2.00pm
• ‍Tairāwhiti: 10  December 2025, 2.00pm
• ‍Whanganui: 11  February 2026, 10.00am
• ‍New  Plymouth: 12  February 2026, 10.00am
• ‍Palmerston  North: 25  February 2026, 10.00am
• ‍Whangārei: 10  March 2026, 10.00am  & 2.00pm

For more information and to register, please see the event page.

Hoake Tātou | Walk With Me has been designed to bring service providers and support agencies together, help strengthen understanding of the barriers men face when seeking help, and highlight the benefits of a purposeful peer support and wellbeing approach to support recovery.

The presentation content includes:

• Safe access and effective engagement of male survivors with support services
• Dispelling some of the common myths about male victims of sexual harm
• Navigate the misunderstandings that create barriers to engagement with support services
• Highlight the role of lived experience as an effective engagement model
• Collaboration and partnerships to welcome and embrace cultural and gender diversity within the male survivor community

In total, 26 events will be held in 17 towns and cities, featuring a panel of presenters at each, including male survivors of sexual abuse.

Please direct all enquiries to the organiser.

Upcoming dates:

• ‍Christchurch: 7  October 2025, 10.00am  & 2.00pm
• ‍Nelson: 8  October 2025, 2.00pm
• ‍Auckland  North: 15  October 2025, 9.30am
• ‍Auckland  Central: 15  October 2025, 2.00pm
• ‍Auckland  Central: 16  October 2025, 9.30am
• ‍Auckland  South: 16  October 2025, 2.00pm
• ‍Hamilton: 29  October 2025, 10.00am  & 2.00pm
• ‍Wellington  – Lower Hutt: 11  November 2025, 9.30am
• ‍Wellington  – Porirua: 11  November 2025, 2.00pm
• ‍Wellington  Central: 12  November 2025, 10.00am  & 2.00pm
• ‍Tauranga: 25  November 2025, 10.00am
• ‍Rotorua: 26  November 2025, 10.00am
• ‍Taupo: 27  November 2025, 10.00am
• ‍Hastings: 9  December 2025, 9.30am
• ‍Napier: 9  December 2025, 2.00pm
• ‍Tairāwhiti: 10  December 2025, 2.00pm
• ‍Whanganui: 11  February 2026, 10.00am
• ‍New  Plymouth: 12  February 2026, 10.00am
• ‍Palmerston  North: 25  February 2026, 10.00am
• ‍Whangārei: 10  March 2026, 10.00am  & 2.00pm

For more information and to register, visit the event page.

To mark International Women’s Day, SSPA has invited Jo Cribb to present their next Kai & Kōrero: Learning over Lunch session. Jo will share her practical insights on how the Social Services sector can continue the fight for fair pay.

From her research and mahi, Jo will briefly outline the current realities of the gender and ethnic pay gap in Aotearoa New Zealand – and, crucially what can be done to change this. After this introduction, the session will be opened up for discussion. Learn more about STILL Minding the Gap.

For enquiries, email: office@sspa.org.nz

For more information and to register, visit the event page.

To mark International Women’s Day, SSPA has invited Jo Cribb to present their next Kai & Kōrero: Learning over Lunch session. Jo will share her practical insights on how the Social Services sector can continue the fight for fair pay.

From her research and mahi, Jo will briefly outline the current realities of the gender and ethnic pay gap in Aotearoa New Zealand – and, crucially what can be done to change this. After this introduction, the session will be opened up for discussion. Learn more about STILL Minding the Gap.

For enquiries, email: office@sspa.org.nz

For more information and to register, visit the event page.

RightPlace is an innovative online service and outreach model that connects individuals affected by gender-based violence (GBV) with support services across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Since launching in November, RightPlace has used targeted digital campaigns to connect thousands of people, including GBV survivors, bystanders, and individuals causing harm who are seeking change, to resources and live support.

Following this Learning Network Resource Spotlight, participants will:

• Understand the context of GBV in the GTA and how targeted digital campaigns can extend outreach to survivors, bystanders, and people causing harm.
• Learn how online-to-offline service and outreach pathways work in practice. This includes messaging, trauma-informed safety and confidentiality measures, and coordination with community-based support services.
• Explore outcomes, challenges, and lessons learned from RightPlace campaigns, and next steps.

For all queries, please contact the organiser at: gbvln@uwo.ca.

For more information and to register, visit the event page.

RightPlace is an innovative online service and outreach model that connects individuals affected by gender-based violence (GBV) with support services across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Since launching in November, RightPlace has used targeted digital campaigns to connect thousands of people, including GBV survivors, bystanders, and individuals causing harm who are seeking change, to resources and live support.

Following this Learning Network Resource Spotlight, participants will:

• Understand the context of GBV in the GTA and how targeted digital campaigns can extend outreach to survivors, bystanders, and people causing harm.
• Learn how online-to-offline service and outreach pathways work in practice. This includes messaging, trauma-informed safety and confidentiality measures, and coordination with community-based support services.
• Explore outcomes, challenges, and lessons learned from RightPlace campaigns, and next steps.

For all queries, please contact the organiser at: gbvln@uwo.ca.

More information and to register, please visit the event page.

This workshop aims to equip family violence responders' with the knowledge to understand, identify and disrupt Institutional Systems Abuse in the context of Systemic Coercive Control.

Key Learnings Include:

1. Understanding Systems Abuse and the various tactics used within these abuse forms
2. Informed – Reflects on models of understanding and offers a deconstruction of Social Entrapment Theory, moving beyond the framing of institutional harm as inadvertent or indifferent
3. Applied – This section introduces the pathways of harmful responses
4. Accountable – Takes a closer look at our ethical responsibilities as responders, to ourselves and to others.

For all queries, please contact the organiser: hello@jacki.co.nz.

More information and to register, please visit the event page.

This workshop aims to equip family violence responders' with the knowledge to understand, identify and disrupt Institutional Systems Abuse in the context of Systemic Coercive Control.

Key Learnings Include:

1. Understanding Systems Abuse and the various tactics used within these abuse forms
2. Informed – Reflects on models of understanding and offers a deconstruction of Social Entrapment Theory, moving beyond the framing of institutional harm as inadvertent or indifferent
3. Applied – This section introduces the pathways of harmful responses
4. Accountable – Takes a closer look at our ethical responsibilities as responders, to ourselves and to others.

For all queries, please contact the organiser: hello@jacki.co.nz.

For more information and to register, visit the official conference page.

This conference will bring together the insights of people with lived experience, policymakers, advocates, practitioners and researchers. Attendees will learn from one another and collaborate across the spectrum of prevention, early intervention, response, and recovery and healing to further the goal of ending family violence in Australia.

No to Violence are hosting this event in collaboration with Stopping Family Violence and SPEAQ.

Please direct all inquiries to the organiser: events@ntv.org.au.

For more information and to register, visit the official conference page.

This conference will bring together the insights of people with lived experience, policymakers, advocates, practitioners and researchers. Attendees will learn from one another and collaborate across the spectrum of prevention, early intervention, response, and recovery and healing to further the goal of ending family violence in Australia.

No to Violence are hosting this event in collaboration with Stopping Family Violence and SPEAQ.

Please direct all inquiries to the organiser: events@ntv.org.au.

Growing Up in New Zealand (GUiNZ) researchers will share insights from the Now We Are 15 snapshot reports on Education and Mental Health and Wellbeing. GUiNZ are also running a workshop to understand the 15-Year Checkpoint data sets and the data access process. For more information and to register for any of the webinars, visit the event pages linked below.

• Wednesday 11 March 2026 - Now We Are 15 - Education Snapshot webinar
• Wednesday 25 March 2026 - Now We Are 15 - Mental Health and Wellbeing Snapshot webinar
• Tuesday 31 March 2026 - Growing Up in New Zealand 15-Year Check Point Data Access Workshop

An overview of the snapshot reports, including links to the individual reports, is available in the GUiNZ media release.

Please direct all queries to the organiser.

Growing Up in New Zealand (GUiNZ) researchers will share insights from the Now We Are 15 snapshot reports on Education and Mental Health and Wellbeing. GUiNZ are also running a workshop to understand the 15-Year Checkpoint data sets and the data access process. For more information and to register for any of the webinars, visit the event pages linked below.

• Wednesday 11 March 2026 - Now We Are 15 - Education Snapshot webinar
• Wednesday 25 March 2026 - Now We Are 15 - Mental Health and Wellbeing Snapshot webinar
• Tuesday 31 March 2026 - Growing Up in New Zealand 15-Year Check Point Data Access Workshop

An overview of the snapshot reports, including links to the individual reports, is available in the GUiNZ media release.

Please direct all queries to the organiser.