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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, 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:
- Understanding Systems Abuse and the various tactics used within these abuse forms
- 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
- Applied – This section introduces the pathways of harmful responses
- 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:
- Understanding Systems Abuse and the various tactics used within these abuse forms
- 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
- Applied – This section introduces the pathways of harmful responses
- 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.
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.
To learn more and to register, please visit the event page.
The Flourishing Asian Communities & Workforce Symposium, hosted by Asian Family Services (AFS), is a national event dedicated to honouring, elevating, and empowering Asian practitioners, researchers, and community leaders, all playing vital roles in shaping inclusive, responsive, and equitable health and social systems in Aotearoa. This full-day gathering offers a platform for connection, reflection, and learning while recognising excellence, launching new initiatives, and fostering collective wellbeing.
Through keynote addresses, awards, and interactive workshops, the day explores how cultural intelligence, innovation, and lived experience strengthen workforce capability across the sectors of mental health, addiction, and wellbeing.
Programme Highlights
- Ministerial address and awards ceremony recognising excellence in Clinical, Public Health, Youth, Peer Support and Lived Experience, Research
- Launch of two national e-learning initiatives on Gambling Harm and Suicide Prevention
- Concurrent workshops on culturally responsive practice and community-based approaches
- Keynote presentations from leading researchers and practitioners
- Networking and showcase sessions connecting national and regional partners
Key Speakers
- Dr Simone Rodda, Professor, Auckland University of Technology (AUT)
- Dr Ying Wang, Research Centre for Arts and Social Transformation, University of Auckland
- Dr Andrew Zhu, Director, Trace Research
For all queries, please contact the organiser.
To learn more and to register, please visit the event page.
The Flourishing Asian Communities & Workforce Symposium, hosted by Asian Family Services (AFS), is a national event dedicated to honouring, elevating, and empowering Asian practitioners, researchers, and community leaders, all playing vital roles in shaping inclusive, responsive, and equitable health and social systems in Aotearoa. This full-day gathering offers a platform for connection, reflection, and learning while recognising excellence, launching new initiatives, and fostering collective wellbeing.
Through keynote addresses, awards, and interactive workshops, the day explores how cultural intelligence, innovation, and lived experience strengthen workforce capability across the sectors of mental health, addiction, and wellbeing.
Programme Highlights
- Ministerial address and awards ceremony recognising excellence in Clinical, Public Health, Youth, Peer Support and Lived Experience, Research
- Launch of two national e-learning initiatives on Gambling Harm and Suicide Prevention
- Concurrent workshops on culturally responsive practice and community-based approaches
- Keynote presentations from leading researchers and practitioners
- Networking and showcase sessions connecting national and regional partners
Key Speakers
- Dr Simone Rodda, Professor, Auckland University of Technology (AUT)
- Dr Ying Wang, Research Centre for Arts and Social Transformation, University of Auckland
- Dr Andrew Zhu, Director, Trace Research
For all queries, please contact the organiser.
For more information and to register, visit the official conference page.
VOYCE – Whakarongo Mai will be hosting their first-ever national conference – Kōkiri – The Future Speaks – a mokopuna informed, future-focused gathering in Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington, NZ).
Exploring evidence based best practice and research, from both an indigenous and international perspective, this event will centre care-experienced rangatahi as leaders in the national conversation on care.
Bringing together care experienced taiohi, caregivers, kaimahi, providers, and both government and non-government sectors to connect, learn, and wānanga bold solutions for the future of care in Aotearoa.
This event is for care experienced rangatahi by care experienced rangatahi. VOYCE - Whakarongo Mai want to support as many rangatahi to attend as they can, so let them know if you'd like to attend but need financial help to do so.
If you are you in a position to contribute or sponsor care experienced rangatahi to attend, please email: youthparticipation@voyce.org.nz.
For all other inquiries, please contact the organiser at contactus@voyce.org.nz.
For more information and to register, visit the official conference page.
VOYCE – Whakarongo Mai will be hosting their first-ever national conference – Kōkiri – The Future Speaks – a mokopuna informed, future-focused gathering in Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington, NZ).
Exploring evidence based best practice and research, from both an indigenous and international perspective, this event will centre care-experienced rangatahi as leaders in the national conversation on care.
Bringing together care experienced taiohi, caregivers, kaimahi, providers, and both government and non-government sectors to connect, learn, and wānanga bold solutions for the future of care in Aotearoa.
This event is for care experienced rangatahi by care experienced rangatahi. VOYCE - Whakarongo Mai want to support as many rangatahi to attend as they can, so let them know if you'd like to attend but need financial help to do so.
If you are you in a position to contribute or sponsor care experienced rangatahi to attend, please email: youthparticipation@voyce.org.nz.
For all other inquiries, please contact the organiser at contactus@voyce.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, see the conference page.
This gathering will bring together practitioners, researchers, policy makers, and advocates from across the Asia-Pacific region, both in person and online.
Conferences presentations will highlight the following:
- Domestic Violence–Informed Practice
- Indigenous-Led Approaches to Safety, Healing & Accountability with Safe & Together
- Family Law: Keeping Children Safe
- Health Responses to Domestic Violence: Embedding a Perpetrator Pattern–Based Approach.
For all queries, contact the organiser.
For more information and to register, see the conference page.
This gathering will bring together practitioners, researchers, policy makers, and advocates from across the Asia-Pacific region, both in person and online.
Conferences presentations will highlight the following:
- Domestic Violence–Informed Practice
- Indigenous-Led Approaches to Safety, Healing & Accountability with Safe & Together
- Family Law: Keeping Children Safe
- Health Responses to Domestic Violence: Embedding a Perpetrator Pattern–Based Approach.
For all queries, contact the organiser.
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