“Peer support is person-centred and underpinned by strength-based philosophies. The life experience of the peer-support-worker creates common ground from which the trust relationship with the person is formed. Empowerment, empathy, hope and choice along with mutuality are the main drivers in purposeful peer support work. There is a great deal of strength gained from knowing someone who has walked where you are walking and now has a life of their choosing. In this way it is different from support work, it comes from a profoundly different philosophical base.”
Te Pou, 2009

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PM gives ‘timeline’ of sex assault claims

By: betterblokesnz

On: September 12, 2019

In: Politics

http://bit.ly/2kI0uPB “Monday was the first time I had ever seen a complainant state that they had taken a complaint of serious sexual assault to the Labour Party as part of that process.” She was referring to details of a serious alleged sexual assault on a 19-year-old in early 2018, publishedContinue Reading

“Gender never came into it for me, and that was because of you”

By: betterblokesnz

On: October 1, 2018

In: Equality, Gender Identity

"Gender never came into it for me, and that was because of you" – Prime Minister @jacindaardern thanking former PM @HelenClarkNZ for showing her and other women and girls that they too can be leaders. Watch the full #Suffrage125 conversation on our FB page #Trailblazing125 pic.twitter.com/xS8kckVOXV — UN Women NZContinue Reading