How it works
Working with Programme Staff to help break the cycle of abusive behaviour
Ake is a safety and behaviour support resource created for daily use by participants of your family / whānau violence programme as they move through three key phases toward family well-being and safety. These phases are:
Awareness
Knowing their story of abuse and where it originated, identifying & understanding behaviours, and how these abusive practices affect others.
Accountability
Introducing ownership of behaviour and accepting responsibility of their previous and current behaviours.
Change
Creating habits that promote family safety while breaking family traditions of violence & abuse.
Watch the video below where Ken McMaster explains the 'why and how' of Ake
Bridging the gap between group and home
A common issue identified in programmes is learning retention. Specifically, the skills & tools learned in the group being remembered and utilised outside the sessions. Ake provides content that recaps the skills and topics covered during the programme and provides facilitators with the ability to follow up with participants through the app.
By minimising downtime between sessions, Ake helps programme staff keep up the pressure on disrupting abusive behaviours by providing their service users access to forward-thinking, digestible content such as articles, challenges, worksheets, safety tips and more.
Developed from 40+ years of family violence intervention work
Ake is the home to original content developed by industry expert Ken McMaster and his team at HMA, who have been working to disrupt family violence in New Zealand and Australia for over 40 years.
The videos, articles and exercises have been designed from this experience and can integrate with industry standard family / whānau violence programmes.
Optionally, the framework of Ake allows for new content to be added which can be ring-fenced to specific organisations / organisation-specific users. If you like the idea of the platform and what it can offer, but prefer to see your own bespoke, service-related content in the library instead, get in contact below.
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