Our Dream

New Zealand is the safest place in the world for children

Our Purpose

To prevent harm and violence to children through education and awareness

Our Role

• Education
• Collaboration and networks
• Specialist support and advice
• Monitoring and setting standards
• Building awareness
• Leadership

Communities that cherish their children

Preventing child abuse is everyone’s responsibility. If a child is being harmed by a member of his or her whanau, then it may only be someone outside the family who can act to stop the hurt.

CPS believes that more people need to accept this responsibility. Our goal is for a community where everyone looks out for children. By working intensively within a specific community we can work towards this outcome and at the same time help strengthen the community as a whole.

We work closely with our funders and supporters to ensure specific projects support specific communities. Three such successful projects, have included:

• Waikato Schools’ Child Protection project
• Tindall Foundation community based programmes, and
• ‘Cherish our Children’ annual walk with Jodi Vaughan – Tiaki O Mokopuna

Outcomes from these projects have been well beyond expectations with participants making a pro-active, behavioural change approach to child protection.