Dr Kim McGregor is the Executive Director of Rape Prevention Education Whakatu Mauri, and has contributed to a number of sexual violence prevention programmes that RPE has developed, including: school based programmes BodySafe, Sex ‘n’ Respect Parties and Sex ‘n’ Respect Alternative Education; youth booklet Sex ‘n’ Respect Working with Young People to Promote Respectful Relating and Prevent Sexual Violence; youth website www.SexnRespect.co.nz; whanau and rangatahi programmes (developed by Maori Clinical specialists) Tiaki Tinana and Rangatahi & Sexual Health; professional education workshops Dealing with Disclosures and SCAN; and works to raise awareness about sexual violence with Survivor Advocate Louise Nicholas.
She is a founding and executive member of the national bi-cultural network Te Ohaakii a Hine – National Network Ending Sexual Violence Together (TOAH-NNEST), an executive member of Project Restore (which provides a restorative justice option for victims of sexual offending), and was a member of the Task Force for Action on Sexual Violence (2007-2009).
Dr McGregor has worked as a therapist with survivors of sexual abuse for more than 25 years. She is the author of the first set of New Zealand’s Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) national guidelines for therapists working with child sexual abuse (CSA) (2001) and serves on ACC’s Sensitive Claims Advisory Group. She authored a self-help book for adult survivors of CSA Warriors of Truth (1994), and the up-dated version Surviving and Moving On (2008).
