VisAble is not an emergency/crisis service.
Please dial 111 for emergencies.
About VisAble
VisAble is a disabled person-led organisation based in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
We work to strengthen national capabilities across agencies and sectors to prevent and respond to violence, abuse, and neglect affecting disabled people and their whānau.
Our focus includes tāngata whaikaha Māori and their whānau, tagata sa’ilimalo and āiga-tele, d/Deaf, neurodivergent, and Adults at Risk.
This is how you can contact VisAble.
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Call us
You can also refer to us over the phone.
Call us our voicemail service to leave a voicemail at 0800 998 858, and we'll get back to you over email within 2 business days.
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Email us
If you would prefer to email us, click the Email Us button below.
Please let us know:
• Your phone number
• Your email address
• How we can help
Our Purpose
VisAble’s purpose is to improve how Aotearoa New Zealand prevents and responds to violence, abuse and neglect against disabled people and their whānau.
We do this through providing other organisations with advice, guidance, training, resources and follow-up support – building their capability in assisting disabled people.
What does VisAble do?
We help to build organisations’ capability in partnering effectively with disabled people. We do this by:
helping make our services, and other organisations’ services, more inclusive of disabled people, and more accessible to them
improving safeguarding capability, so that those organisations working in family and sexual violence (FVSV) prevention and response are better able to detect, prevent and stop violence, abuse and neglect
providing specialist knowledge, advice, skills and resources in safeguarding practices to those organisations who are responding to situations of concern
promoting the rights of disabled people
jointly developing strategies to ensure culturally safe, whānau-centred responses.
Do you need support?
If you, or someone you care about, is experiencing violence, abuse or neglect, or is at risk of this, we can help connect you with an organisation which can provide direct support.
Please note: VisAble is not an emergency or crisis response service.
Our team is based across Aotearoa and work in partnership with communities, agencies, and sectors to:
How can we help you:
Make your services more inclusive and accessible.
Recognise and respond to safeguarding concerns, including family violence, sexual violence, adult abuse, and child-to-parent violence.
Identify Adults at Risk and initiate a multi-agency safeguarding response.
Connect with appropriate services to ensure safety and wellbeing for disabled people and their whānau.
