Webinar: Introduction to new economic harm support service pilot

7th July 2022

Discover how this new service can support your clients experiencing economic harm.

We invite people working in the family violence sector to join our economic harm specialists, Vanessa and Beryl, as they take you through our new support service that’s designed to help your clients experiencing economic harm.

Tune in to learn how this service can help your clients work through the financial challenges of family violence.

Trends overseas suggest economic harm is experienced in as many as

0 %

of family violence cases

You'll learn:

How the new service works
How it helps with the financial challenges of family violence
How it benefits your clients experiencing economic harm
Why we're piloting a new support service
About the resources we’ve developed to support you and your clients
How you can make a referral to this service

Learn more about economic harm

Economic Harm Explained

Economic harm is behaviour towards a person that controls, restricts or removes their access to

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Research: Economic Abuse in New Zealand

Research: Economic Abuse in New Zealand Research: Economic Abuse in New Zealand Our 2018 research

How to recognise economic harm

Economic harm doesn’t leave visible marks. Like other forms of violence, it can be subtle

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Economic harm vs economic abuse

What comes to mind when you think about the word abuse? Is it a word that you

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The long-lasting impact of economic harm

June shares her life story about how she has constantly grappled with economic harm and the struggles she faced trying to find her feet again.

I thought I was bad with money

Paige didn’t realise the severity of the harm she was experiencing until she started to spend some time apart from her partner. Even when the

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Be a proper girlfriend

Lara’s relationship, like many, started out healthy – but over time things started to change and when she decided to leave the relationship, she footed

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Perspective: experiencing economic harm

Economic harm can be invisible and the controlling behaviours that inflict this harm often feel inescapable and create hostile environments. Sarah shares her economic harm