For more information and to register for any of the week's offerings, see Netsafety Week: Power in Partnerships.

See below for what's on this Netsafety week:

Monday 28 July 2025:

• Webinar: AI and Online Safety, 12pm
• Technology-Facilitated Coercive Control Resource become available today

Tuesday 29 July 2025:

• Webinar: What Matters Online — A Rangatahi Perspective, 7pm

Wednesday 30 July 2025:

• Webinar: Online Safety in Fiji hosted by Netsafe Pacific, 11am
• Webinar: Reflections on International Indigenous Health Collaborations, 1pm

Thursday 7 August 2025 (the below Netsafety Week webinar falls outside of the official week):

• Webinar: Raising Safe and Responsible Gamers, 7pm

Please direct all queries to the organisers.

For more information and to register for any of the week's offerings, see Netsafety Week: Power in Partnerships.

See below for what's on this Netsafety week:

Monday 28 July 2025:

• Webinar: AI and Online Safety, 12pm
• Technology-Facilitated Coercive Control Resource become available today

Tuesday 29 July 2025:

• Webinar: What Matters Online — A Rangatahi Perspective, 7pm

Wednesday 30 July 2025:

• Webinar: Online Safety in Fiji hosted by Netsafe Pacific, 11am
• Webinar: Reflections on International Indigenous Health Collaborations, 1pm

Thursday 7 August 2025 (the below Netsafety Week webinar falls outside of the official week):

• Webinar: Raising Safe and Responsible Gamers, 7pm

Please direct all queries to the organisers.

For more information and to register for the online training, visit the webinar events page.

This workshop focuses on understanding the concept of vulnerability and explores factors that contribute to vulnerability, risk and child abuse. Participants will learn how to identify when children and young people are vulnerable to abuse and neglect, and how to intervene early.

Please direct all queries to the organiser.

For more information and to register for the online training, visit the webinar events page.

This workshop focuses on understanding the concept of vulnerability and explores factors that contribute to vulnerability, risk and child abuse. Participants will learn how to identify when children and young people are vulnerable to abuse and neglect, and how to intervene early.

Please direct all queries to the organiser.

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

This Evidence to Practice Session features work by the Family Violence Death Review subject matter experts (FVDR SMEs, formerly the FVDRC), undertaken on behalf of the National Mortality Review Committee | He Mutunga Kore. The FVDR SME Chair and the Principal Advisor for FVDR will present their recently published report Femicide: Deaths resulting from gender-based violence in Aotearoa New Zealand (2025).

This session will explore key findings from the report, which examines deaths resulting from gender-based violence, including intimate partner violence, maternal suicide, and perinatal mortality. The presentation highlights inequities experienced by wāhine and kōtiro Māori, emergent issues such as technology-facilitated abuse and repeated brain injury, and gaps in data collection that hinder accurate reporting. The session will also cover recommendations aligned with New Zealand’s obligations under CEDAW and collaborative strategies for prevention and response.

Please direct all questions to the organisers.

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

This Evidence to Practice Session features work by the Family Violence Death Review subject matter experts (FVDR SMEs, formerly the FVDRC), undertaken on behalf of the National Mortality Review Committee | He Mutunga Kore. The FVDR SME Chair and the Principal Advisor for FVDR will present their recently published report Femicide: Deaths resulting from gender-based violence in Aotearoa New Zealand (2025).

This session will explore key findings from the report, which examines deaths resulting from gender-based violence, including intimate partner violence, maternal suicide, and perinatal mortality. The presentation highlights inequities experienced by wāhine and kōtiro Māori, emergent issues such as technology-facilitated abuse and repeated brain injury, and gaps in data collection that hinder accurate reporting. The session will also cover recommendations aligned with New Zealand’s obligations under CEDAW and collaborative strategies for prevention and response.

Please direct all questions to the organisers.

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

This training is for any professional working with young people in any capacity, including group and 1-1 work.  This training focuses on topics relating specifically to sexual wellbeing, such as contraception, STIs, and pregnancy options.  It is suitable for a wide range of professionals, including youth workers, sports coaches, social workers, public health nurses, teachers, and educators.

This full-day training focuses on increasing the knowledge, skills, and confidence of professionals to support the young people they work with to navigate their sexual wellbeing.  

This training includes:

• Key information for young people on sexual wellbeing topics
• Guidance to navigate personal values when supporting young people with their sexual wellbeing
• Practical tools to integrate into daily practice and conversations
• Support and signposting information

Please direct all queries to the organiser.

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

This training is for any professional working with young people in any capacity, including group and 1-1 work.  This training focuses on topics relating specifically to sexual wellbeing, such as contraception, STIs, and pregnancy options.  It is suitable for a wide range of professionals, including youth workers, sports coaches, social workers, public health nurses, teachers, and educators.

This full-day training focuses on increasing the knowledge, skills, and confidence of professionals to support the young people they work with to navigate their sexual wellbeing.  

This training includes:

• Key information for young people on sexual wellbeing topics
• Guidance to navigate personal values when supporting young people with their sexual wellbeing
• Practical tools to integrate into daily practice and conversations
• Support and signposting information

Please direct all queries to the organiser.

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

This presentation will share insights from a two‑year, disability‑led research project that reimagines how Aotearoa can respond to violence against wāhine whaikaha, D/deaf and disabled women. Grounded in Te Aorerekura – the National Strategy for Eliminating Family and Sexual Violence – the team worked alongside kaupapa Māori and mainstream services to co‑develop a fluid, strengths‑based model of “twin‑track” support.

This presentation will cover:

• How centring disabled women’s voices reshapes service design and delivery;
• Practical ways organisations can adopt the reconceptualised twin‑track model;
• Stories of transformation that show what becomes possible when wāhine whaikaha, their whānau and service providers walk side by side.

Please direct all queries to the organisers.

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

This presentation will share insights from a two‑year, disability‑led research project that reimagines how Aotearoa can respond to violence against wāhine whaikaha, D/deaf and disabled women. Grounded in Te Aorerekura – the National Strategy for Eliminating Family and Sexual Violence – the team worked alongside kaupapa Māori and mainstream services to co‑develop a fluid, strengths‑based model of “twin‑track” support.

This presentation will cover:

• How centring disabled women’s voices reshapes service design and delivery;
• Practical ways organisations can adopt the reconceptualised twin‑track model;
• Stories of transformation that show what becomes possible when wāhine whaikaha, their whānau and service providers walk side by side.

Please direct all queries to the organisers.

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

This 4-hour virtual course is designed for workplaces and individuals to equip them with the skills and knowledge necessary to safely and effectively challenge sexist attitude in personal and professional spaces.

Please direct all questions to the organiser: admin@safeandequal.org.au.

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

This 4-hour virtual course is designed for workplaces and individuals to equip them with the skills and knowledge necessary to safely and effectively challenge sexist attitude in personal and professional spaces.

Please direct all questions to the organiser: admin@safeandequal.org.au.

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

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a powerful tool on both sides of the online safety equation. It is being exploited to create vast quantities of new and synthetic child abuse material (CSAM), leveraging everything from previous victims' images to stolen social media photos to create deepfakes. However, the same technology offers opportunities to law enforcement: AI is enabling automated analysis of immense datasets to identify victims and perpetrators, with the prospect of reducing the psychological harm to human investigators.

Pivoting from enforcement to prevention, the presentation will also highlight the critical need for "Safety by Design" principles to be embedded in online platforms. A key example of deterrence is the reThink chatbot, a partnership between the Internet Watch Foundation, the Lucy Faithfull Foundation, and Aylo (which operates Pornhub), and subsequently evaluated by the University of Tasmania. The chatbot demonstrated a significant deterrent effect by confronting users searching for CSAM. The University of Tasmania is co-leading a new initiative, the CSAM Deterrence Centre, in collaboration with Stop It Now (Australia) to work with tech partners on implementing deterrence messaging and other measures.

Please direct all questions to the organiser: nziscs@waikato.ac.nz.

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

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a powerful tool on both sides of the online safety equation. It is being exploited to create vast quantities of new and synthetic child abuse material (CSAM), leveraging everything from previous victims' images to stolen social media photos to create deepfakes. However, the same technology offers opportunities to law enforcement: AI is enabling automated analysis of immense datasets to identify victims and perpetrators, with the prospect of reducing the psychological harm to human investigators.

Pivoting from enforcement to prevention, the presentation will also highlight the critical need for "Safety by Design" principles to be embedded in online platforms. A key example of deterrence is the reThink chatbot, a partnership between the Internet Watch Foundation, the Lucy Faithfull Foundation, and Aylo (which operates Pornhub), and subsequently evaluated by the University of Tasmania. The chatbot demonstrated a significant deterrent effect by confronting users searching for CSAM. The University of Tasmania is co-leading a new initiative, the CSAM Deterrence Centre, in collaboration with Stop It Now (Australia) to work with tech partners on implementing deterrence messaging and other measures.

Please direct all questions to the organiser: nziscs@waikato.ac.nz.

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

Coercive control is a pattern of abusive behaviours that uses manipulation, monitoring, surveillance, pressure, and fear to limit someone’s freedom and independence. When technology is involved, it can be harder to recognise.

This webinar will explore:

• how technology-facilitated coercive control impacts young people;
• the common red flags to watch for;
• practical ways to respond and support those experiencing it.

Please direst all queries to the organisers.

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

Coercive control is a pattern of abusive behaviours that uses manipulation, monitoring, surveillance, pressure, and fear to limit someone’s freedom and independence. When technology is involved, it can be harder to recognise.

This webinar will explore:

• how technology-facilitated coercive control impacts young people;
• the common red flags to watch for;
• practical ways to respond and support those experiencing it.

Please direst all queries to the organisers.

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

This training is structured to build a deeper understanding of the entrapment model of family violence presented in Levels 1 and 2. Over the two days, Shine RESPOND will bring together guest speakers who are specialists in their respective fields. Each speaker will provide insight into different elements of the entrapment model.

Learning Objectives:

• Further develop an understanding regarding concepts of coercive control, entrapment and resistance which inform a response-based approach.
• Understand the broader societal contexts that are present for people who are experiencing family violence: including awareness of cultural perceptions, dynamics of gender and disabled people.

For all queries about Shine's training, contact trainer@2shine.org.nz.

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

This training is structured to build a deeper understanding of the entrapment model of family violence presented in Levels 1 and 2. Over the two days, Shine RESPOND will bring together guest speakers who are specialists in their respective fields. Each speaker will provide insight into different elements of the entrapment model.

Learning Objectives:

• Further develop an understanding regarding concepts of coercive control, entrapment and resistance which inform a response-based approach.
• Understand the broader societal contexts that are present for people who are experiencing family violence: including awareness of cultural perceptions, dynamics of gender and disabled people.

For all queries about Shine's training, contact trainer@2shine.org.nz.

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

Deepfakes and synthetic media are becoming more common as AI tools grow in accessibility and ease of use. Some of these tools are being used to create harmful content, including image-based abuse involving young people both as targets and as creators.

This webinar for educators and youth-serving professionals will cover:

• how young people are experiencing AI-assisted image-based abuse – the tools, the behaviours, the impacts
• the technological, social and cultural contexts that are driving the use of deepfakes
• support strategies for professionals working with young people to both prevent and respond to AI-assisted image-based abuse.

Please direst all queries to the organisers.

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

Deepfakes and synthetic media are becoming more common as AI tools grow in accessibility and ease of use. Some of these tools are being used to create harmful content, including image-based abuse involving young people both as targets and as creators.

This webinar for educators and youth-serving professionals will cover:

• how young people are experiencing AI-assisted image-based abuse – the tools, the behaviours, the impacts
• the technological, social and cultural contexts that are driving the use of deepfakes
• support strategies for professionals working with young people to both prevent and respond to AI-assisted image-based abuse.

Please direst all queries to the organisers.

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

This 101-style presentation is aimed at getting attendees up-to-speed with the basics of AI deep fakes so that they can understand the realities that taiohi and young people are facing online as well as helping attendees better support young people encountering and engaging with AI deep fakes.

Please direct all queries to the organisers.

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

This 101-style presentation is aimed at getting attendees up-to-speed with the basics of AI deep fakes so that they can understand the realities that taiohi and young people are facing online as well as helping attendees better support young people encountering and engaging with AI deep fakes.

Please direct all queries to the organisers.

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

This forum is for anyone teaching Navigating the Journey for Years 1-8. See here for the Navigating the Journey forum for Secondary School.

This free forum is open to any teacher or educator wanting to discuss Navigating the Journey and how to use it. This forum is an opportunity to connect with other schools, and to get advice about how to utilise Navigating the Journey in a way that works for students from the Community Health Promotion Team at Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa.

This forum will run twice every term and will provide opportunities to openly discuss a range of topics, such as:

• Relationships and Sexuality Education - update and questions
• Navigating the Journey content - lesson plan and activities
• Hot topics – opportunity to discuss how you approach different topics in a way that is age-appropriate
• How to answer questions from students and your school community.

This session is suitable for anyone already teaching Navigating the Journey or for anyone that hasn’t yet started but has questions about it.

Please direct all questions to Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa.

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

This forum is for anyone teaching Navigating the Journey for Years 1-8. See here for the Navigating the Journey forum for Secondary School.

This free forum is open to any teacher or educator wanting to discuss Navigating the Journey and how to use it. This forum is an opportunity to connect with other schools, and to get advice about how to utilise Navigating the Journey in a way that works for students from the Community Health Promotion Team at Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa.

This forum will run twice every term and will provide opportunities to openly discuss a range of topics, such as:

• Relationships and Sexuality Education - update and questions
• Navigating the Journey content - lesson plan and activities
• Hot topics – opportunity to discuss how you approach different topics in a way that is age-appropriate
• How to answer questions from students and your school community.

This session is suitable for anyone already teaching Navigating the Journey or for anyone that hasn’t yet started but has questions about it.

Please direct all questions to Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa.