Evaluations from RISE participants in 2024 -2025 show after working with RISE, people feel and are safer, acquire practical self-regulation tools, strengthen relationships, and develop the insight needed to disrupt intergenerational violence.

RISE recently attended the launch of two new important initiatives designed to prevent harm online.

RISE’s Hikitia! team hosted a hugely successful symposium in Whakatū Nelson. Read more about the event and the projects the Hikitia! team is working on with the community.

Advice for partners who are ending a violent relationship and seeking to guide their children through the difficult process.

Right now RISE Clinician Georgie White is seeing at least five youth who have ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and has noticed an increasing number of referrals.

RISE clinician working with youth clients sees a worrying trend.

“When I first met Taylor, he had just started at an alternative education programme after being advised to leave high school. He felt on the outside of the school system, was highly anxious and struggled containing strong anger impulses. He was only 13.”

Find out what youth took away with them after completing our youth programme and what they are doing to make themselves safe.

For half of Leanne Fletcher’s life, she has been dealing with an abusive partner. At 32, she is successful in work and life, even though she is still healing from the abuse she suffered all those years ago. She shares her story.