How we help

Collaborative work, co-design principles, and genuine partnerships allow communities to drive change on their own terms, ensuring that the outcomes reflect the aspirations and wisdom of the people involved. This not only fosters trust but also empowers communities to take ownership of the solutions, resulting in more sustainable and impactful outcomes. By honoring Indigenous ways of knowing and doing, we pave the way for a future where the gap is genuinely closed through respect, equity, and shared leadership.

NINI delivers Men’s behaviour change programs and activities that integrate culture, utilise healing approaches, are grounded in evidence-based research, employ trauma-informed strategies, therapeutic interventions, foster community connections, and allow for dynamic adaptation.

Educating our communities is key to developing skills that transform social and emotional well-being, education, and employment status. It’s about building economic participation and freedoms, ending criminogenic and recidivistic behaviors, and learning to live safely with intergenerational trauma, grief, and loss.

Ending violence against women and children in all its forms.

NINI provides educational workshops, Narrative Therapy, counselling, yarning circles, activities and tailored services to improve safety and the social and emotional wellbeing of our people and communities.

Types of DFSV:

• Intimate partner violence 
• Family violence 
• Sexual violence 
• Child abuse 

Many behaviours need addressing, some are:

• Understanding power and control
• Blaming, denying, or minimising any abusive behaviours 

Some risk factors include:

• Trauma, in all its forms, unresolved, conflicted – existential 
• Recent job loss, stresses, increases in alcohol and other drugs can increase the likelihood of acting out DFSV behaviours
• Other stresses such as unresolved grief, loss and trauma, such as PTSD can increase abusive behaviours
• Witnessing DFSV as a child can increase the risk of perpetrating it
• Living in regional and remote communities can make disclosure difficult for many reasons

People who experience DFSV at any level are affected in many different ways, but overwhelmingly these affects are traumatic, vicarious, have long lasting implications on the victim survivors social and emotional wellbeing including their physical wellbeing 

NINI’s service is to prevent DFSV, not to judge, ridicule or shame the perpetrator who seeks help and support. Our service provides culturally appropriate space, so our mob address their violence and we can begin the healing journey together to end the violence.

Moving to a “preferred story” of living a responsible life, being a safe partner, parent and community member, a role model for community is the desired outcome, that is nothing to be ashamed of and something to be proud of.