About Us
OUR VISION
Effectively contributing to creating communities free of sexual violence, where people are enjoying respectful relationships and sexual experiences free from pressure, coercion, harm, and violence
OUR MISSION
RPE’s mission is to work in relationship with tangata whenua to develop partnerships and evidence-based prevention activities in community services, education, health promotion, research and advocacy that effectively promote respectful relating and eliminate perpetration and experience of sexual violence in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Our Body Safe Tiaki Tinana programme delivers high quality information to students in over 25 high schools in Auckland. Every year we provide approximately 450 sexual violence prevention education modules to 3000 young people. We also deliver BodySafe in a wide range of settings including around 15 Alternative Education Centres, Teen Parent Units and Youth Justice Facilities. For more information visit our website here: www.bodysafe.nz
We also deliver our workshops on understanding sexual violence and dealing with disclosures to a wide audience that includes health professionals and community organisations. For more information click here.
COLLABORATION
ADVOCACY
Surviviors and community members look to RPE to advocate for improvements to frontline sexual violence intervention and prevention services, as well as working towards community safety through creating positive legislative change.
We are proud to have been a key member of the advisory group that helped form Project Restore. Bodysafe have also contributed to the groundbreaking recommendations and narrative in the book “From ‘Real Rape’ to Real Justice’ supported by the Law Commission.