While New Zealand has made some good progress in getting the topic of domestic / partner violence well-publicised and increasingly well researched (which it needs to, having one of the, if not THE, highest rates in the world http://goo.gl/UgM8sE ), it certainly needs to do much more to assist survivors of such violence, and often related other forms of childhood adversity. It has recently again been discussed at a national conference for nurses. I have been invited to submit a discussion paper, from the viewpoint of a mental health service consumer / survivor of such childhood adversity to one of the country's peak bodies, going by the Maori name Nga Hau E Wha http://goo.gl/dSFkx5
In August I contributed material to a member's request for information on trauma-informed hospital systems, and I would like to present in my paper mentions of developments elsewhere in the world -- I was excited by participants' mention of such developments during the recent SAMHSA webinar on Trauma Informed Suicide Prevention.
Could people please contact me with relevant information.
I'm also interested in forming a New Zealand e-group of members / potential members of ACEsConnection, but lack means of surveying members' national locations, so could people interested in forming such a group also please contact me, whether they be current members of ACEsConnection or not.