Our Story Vision & Values - HAIP Hamilton Abuse Intervention Project

Create a loving home for your whanau to thrive and be happy.

Show your tamariki what it feels like to be safe and protected.

Leave your tamariki with a legacy of love, not fear.

The most important thing a man can do for his children is to love their mother.

About HAIP - Hamilton Abuse Intervention Project

HAIP is a not for profit agency that specializes in providing a range of services within the community.

HAIP provides non-violence education programmes for women and men of all cultures.

HAIP is committed to the safety and protection of women and children who constitute the primary victims of family violence.

Our agency is committed to the provision of appropriate and quality services for families with a principal focus of ensuring a consistent inter-agency response to family violence.

Highest priority is victim safety, autonomy and integrity, while simultaneously holding assailants accountable for their use of violence without impeding their civil rights.

Our Mission

To support, advocate and work to empower families affected by family violence while at the same time:

Promote universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms.

Recognise, promote and support the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women to determine and promote social progress and better standards of life.

Hold as paramount the safety and protection of women and children who constitute the primary victims of family violence.

Prioritise the coordination of and monitor a consistent interagency response to family violence that maintains the victim’s autonomy and integrity and holds assailants accountable for their use of violence without impeding their civil rights.

Maintain a strong commitment to the provision of appropriate and quality services for non-indigenous and indigenous people in recognition of Te Tiriti partnership principles. This is reflected in the policy of this agency on Parallel Development.