Taranaki Safe Families Trust

07/10/2026

06/10/2026

17/09/2026

Another opportunity for parents in our community to get educated up on the current digital landscape. This is a kaupapa TSFT have been heavily promoting over the last couple of years, and its great to see more awareness and opportunities.

📣 BIG UPDATE — NEW VENUE + TICKETS NOW ONLY $10!

We’ve shared this one before, but we really want to get it in front of as many Taranaki parents and caregivers as possible.

Parenting in an online world is HARD. Technology is changing ridiculously fast, and keeping up with what our kids are seeing, using and being exposed to can feel almost impossible.

So, this event has moved to a bigger venue and tickets are now just $10! 🙌
If you’re raising kids in 2026, this conversation matters.

RAW - REAL - OFTEN HILARIOUS - ALWAYS EYE-OPENING!

Grab your ticket via the QR code — and tag or share this with another parent who needs to see it. ❤️

16/09/2026

Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori

15/09/2026

Kia ora! There's some interesting feedback from the youth perspective. Whilst a ban for under 16's seems great on the surface, like most band-aid responses it doesn't really fix the underlying concerns with youth and their interaction with the online world.
1. Putting in bans is the easiest response that requires little to no effort from the government, families and the wider community. It's lazy.
2. Trying to put the 'genie back in the bottle' to a generation that have already had access and exposure to social media for years is simply not going to work, and actually force rangatahi to sneak around, lie and access it anyway.
3. We (adults) provided them with this technology, and its such a large part of their lives now - it will only increase.
4. The most difficult response and therefore the best response starts at home in the family with:
- Safe, open, honest conversations with your children about what is healthy and what is problematic about what they see online.
- Provide pathways for them to ask questions about things they are curious about, or things they don't understand, and do it without the fear of judgement, shame or embarrassment.
- Build their critical thinking skills and digital literacy so they can feel empowered to safely navigate the online world.
- Role model appropriate, balanced phone time inside the home. Be on the journey together.

A student-led survey found 65.8% of respondents opposed a social media ban.

14/09/2026

Taranaki Safe Families Trust member Roderique Hope Emergency Housing Trust leading an initiative to support rough sleepers in Taranaki.
👏👏👏

🏠 Up to $580,000 is being provided to help Taranaki people sleeping rough or at risk of homelessness find a pathway towards stable housing.

Roderique Hope Trust will lead the regional initiative, with YMCA Taranaki providing targeted outreach in New Plymouth.

Read the full story below.

10/09/2026

It's never an enjoyable moment posting news articles like this.
On average, 9 children and 13 women are killed as a result of family in Aotearoa New Zealand each year.
Around 60% of all homicides are that of an adult women from family violence.
Its our national shame 😥😥😥

Emergency services were called to an address on High St in Glenholme shortly before 10.30pm yesterday.

07/09/2026

Join us for a series of webinars is designed to help social services professionals upskill around the various legal things you might come into contact with in your day to day to work. You’ll come away from these webinars empowered to support your clients and understand your own obligations. If you’d rather have an in person workshop just let me know; I’m happy to come in and deliver something specific to your organisation.

The webinar topics:
15 Sept EPOA or PPPR
What’s the Difference?

22 Sept Online Harm
What are the options?

6 Oct Privacy
Are you keeping info safe?

13 Oct Employee vs Contractor
Know the difference

20 Oct Litigant Abuse Orders
How do they work?

27 Oct Stalking Laws
How do they work?

All presentations are 12.30pm on Microsoft Teams. Expect Interactive presentations from an experienced facilitator, with practical and relevant insights. If you would like to attend, just respond to this post and facebook event and I will send the links for the presentations.