About VisAble
VisAble works across sectors and communities to raise awareness of the impact of family and sexual violence (FVSV) on disabled people and their whānau.
We work to strengthen organisations’ capabilities, enabling them to prevent and respond effectively to FVSV violence, abuse, and neglect.
What does VisAble do?
VisAble’s purpose is to improve how Aotearoa New Zealand prevents and responds to violence, abuse and neglect against disabled people and their whānau.
We do this by building safer communities, through providing advice, guidance, networking, training, resources and follow-up support.
VisAble works across sectors and communities to raise awareness of the impact of family and sexual violence (FVSV) on disabled people and their whānau.
We work to strengthen organisations’ capabilities, enabling them to prevent and respond effectively to FVSV violence, abuse, and neglect.
Partnering effectively with disabled people is essential to providing high-quality services and achieving outcomes with and for people. We do this by:
helping make our services, and other organisations’ services, more inclusive of disabled people, and more accessible to them
improving safeguarding / whakahaumarutia capability, so that those organisations working in family and sexual violence (FVSV) prevention and response are better able to detect, prevent and stop violence, abuse and neglect
providing specialist knowledge, advice, skills and resources in safeguarding practices to those organisations who are responding to situations of concern
promoting the rights of disabled people
jointly developing strategies to ensure culturally safe, whānau-centred responses.
VisAble has three core services
Building sector capability
Strengthening safeguarding / whakahaumarutia practices
Responding to Child to Parent Violence and Abuse (CPVA)
Our mahi is directly informed by the insights and experiences of disabled people and Adults at Risk.
Combined with VisAble’s Values / Ngā Mātāpono and guided by the Whare Tapa Rima model, we focus on:
Taha Hinengaro (Mental Wellbeing)
Taha Tinana (Physical Wellbeing)
Taha Wairua (Spiritual Wellbeing)
Taha Whānau (Family and Social Wellbeing)
Taha Whenua (Connection to Land and Community)
Our team includes tāngata whaikaha Māori, disabled people, and kaimahi with expertise in disability, human rights, safeguarding adults, and violence prevention. We partner with others using mana-enhancing, person-directed, and whānau-centred principles to ensure individuals remain in control of their lives.
Please note: VisAble is not a crisis response service.
More information about VisAble’s name
At VisAble, we help make abuse and its impacts visible to others, so they know what to look out for and do, when detecting and preventing violence, abuse and neglect at their place or to people they love or care for.
Making visible
enabling disabled people and their experiences to become more visible
making visible the extent of harm, abuse and violence experienced by disabled people
When violence, abuse and harm are visible, they can be addressed.
When incidence (events) and risks are identified, violence, abuse and neglect can be stopped or prevented.
Enabling
enabling people with disabilities to live safe lives, free from violence, abuse and neglect
enabling improved capability across agencies and sectors in detecting, stopping and preventing violence, abuse and neglect
enabling and supporting expertise and leadership of safeguarding and Disability Abuse Prevention and Response (DAPAR)