For employers
Back a Bro at work
Some of the men who reach out to RISE for help work for businesses like yours, and so do their partners. Tell us a little about your organisation and we'll talk through the options that fit.
Why it matters at work
a year: what family violence costs the New Zealand economy.1
a year: the cost to New Zealand employers through lost productivity, turnover and retraining.2
of men in a violence programme said their violence hurt their job performance.3
used work time to contact or monitor their partner. Nearly 1 in 10 caused or nearly caused a workplace accident.3
Ways your workplace can take part
Back a group of men
$2,080 backs one man's whole journey. Your business can back five men, ten men, or a whole group each year, and we'll report back on what impact your funding had.
Match your team's giving
Offer Back a Bro through payroll giving and match what your staff give. It doubles the impact and shows your people that you care about supporting men's behaviour change.
Make help easy to find
Put RISE on your wellbeing page and in your EAP information, so a man in your team who is worried about his own behaviour knows where to go.
Train your people with Be There
Be There, powered by RISE, gives staff the confidence to notice and respond when something isn't right. It meets your psychosocial risk duties and builds a safer culture.
- Upper estimate. Kahui, S. and Snively, S. (2014), Measuring the Economic Costs of Child Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence to New Zealand, for the Glenn Inquiry. The most recent national estimate.
- Kahui, S., Ku, B. and Snively, S. (2014), Productivity Gains from Workplace Protection of Victims of Domestic Violence, for the Public Service Association.
- Survey of 500 men in Ontario Partner Assault Response programmes. Scott, K. and MacQuarrie, B., University of Toronto (OISE) and Western University, 2017.
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