Auckland Sexual Abuse HELP

Our charter presents the values of the organisation and the
rights and responsibilities of its members.

Charter of Auckland Sexual Abuse HELP

Professionalism
We will be purposeful in working towards the agency's goals, acting responsibly and with integrity. In ensuring accountability, we will ensure ethical and legal standards are met. Through our work we will value and emphasize confidentiality, self-care, supervision and external input.

Contribution to the Community
We believe in empowering women and supporting their growth and development. Our valuing of difference, embracing of diversity and opposition to all oppression will manifest in all of our relationships. We recognise Maori as Tangata Whenua. We value the concept of "walking lightly on the earth".

Responsibility
We accept responsibility for continually expanding our skills, knowledge and attitudes which our service delivery in education, prevention and crisis work. We honour our committment to the shared and fundamental beliefs underpinning our work.

Working Together
We asppire to sustain a healthful workplace where our compassion for humanness is demonstrated in collegial relations, our openness and valuing of our contribution, our attempts to communicate with integrity and our support of one another in responsible group membership. We will talk together and value individual input aiming to arrive at agreed decisions and we will each take responsibility for their implementation.

Working Safely
The undervaluing by society of the work that we do means that we are usually trying to work with insufficient resources. This leads to an inherent tension between working safely for ourselves and keeping the agency afloat to meet the needs of clients and other survivors of abuse. To work here requires committment to survivors, your own health and to the agency. Part of our mission is to reduce this tension by working to increase society's valuing of what we do so that the agency can be financially stable.

Leadership

The issues of how we practice leadership and management in this organisation are a significant aspect to working with integrity as we work constantly with the effects of the inappropriate use of power by one or more people over others.

We endeavour to consider and acknowledge the influence of many forms of power in our work with each other while aspiring to models of leadership and management which maintain practices of participation, connectedness of people and teams, along with transparency of decision-making and process. Additionally, inasmuch as is practical, decision-making will take place close to the daily work so it is well-informed by client need, the financial context of the organisation and the interests of both internal and external stakeholder groups.

We also value the contributions of consultation, guidance and mentoring. We support the vesting and using of authority where it is appropriate to the responsibilities to be met and the need for clear and multiple lines of accountability.


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		Our charter presents the values of the organisation and the rights and responsibilities of its members. Charter of Auckland Sexual Abuse HELP Professionalism We will be purposeful in working towards the agency's goals, acting responsibly and with integrity. In ensuring accountability, we will ensure ethical and legal standards are met. Through our work we will value and emphasize confidentiality, self-care, supervision and external input. Contribution to the Community We believe in empowering women and supporting their growth and development. Our valuing of difference, embracing of diversity and opposition to all oppression will manifest in all of our relationships. We recognise Maori as Tangata Whenua. We value the concept of "walking lightly on the earth". Responsibility We accept responsibility for continually expanding our skills, knowledge and attitudes which our service delivery in education, prevention and crisis work. We honour our committment to the shared and fundamental beliefs underpinning our work. Working Together We asppire to sustain a healthful workplace where our compassion for humanness is demonstrated in collegial relations, our openness and valuing of our contribution, our attempts to communicate with integrity and our support of one another in responsible group membership. We will talk together and value individual input aiming to arrive at agreed decisions and we will each take responsibility for their implementation. Working Safely The undervaluing by society of the work that we do means that we are usually trying to work with insufficient resources. This leads to an inherent tension between working safely for ourselves and keeping the agency afloat to meet the needs of clients and other survivors of abuse. To work here requires committment to survivors, your own health and to the agency. Part of our mission is to reduce this tension by working to increase society's valuing of what we do so that the agency can be financially stable. Leadership The issues of how we practice leadership and management in this organisation are a significant aspect to working with integrity as we work constantly with the effects of the inappropriate use of power by one or more people over others. We endeavour to consider and acknowledge the influence of many forms of power in our work with each other while aspiring to models of leadership and management which maintain practices of participation, connectedness of people and teams, along with transparency of decision-making and process. Additionally, inasmuch as is practical, decision-making will take place close to the daily work so it is well-informed by client need, the financial context of the organisation and the interests of both internal and external stakeholder groups. We also value the contributions of consultation, guidance and mentoring. We support the vesting and using of authority where it is appropriate to the responsibilities to be met and the need for clear and multiple lines of accountability.
















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