We sent Brendon to the Jigsaw conference at Te Papa recently. We’d been aware of Jigsaw since last year via Todd Bell; they ran the extraordinary dad campaign with fantastic posters including Corey Jane kissing his boy!

Jigsaw is the Child Abuse prevention Network in a new guise, members range from DV/Womens refuge to Dave Owens/great fathers, lots of good Maori, Pasifika and gender balanced connections. Check out Jigsaw Network …

Paula Bennet launched the White paper for vulnerable children, including a VIK informaton system and Childprotect phone line…it replicates what we do in the Vulnerable Infant Network, hopefully they do it better than cyfs have so far…

We met and connected with a few great organisations, one is in Whangarei and has the teen dads group, one is in Ngaruawahia and supports dads… there is a great parenting centre in Thames, a great dads/mens group running out of Masterton and we connected with the Every Child Counts group…

We distributed quite a few Why Dads booklets, and a few brochures to those who asked for them, many more are left in Wellington with Quentin…

Quentin welcomed me and he ran a workshop on great fathers, hooked me in to help, Elaine Dyer was there and keen to support us joining Jigsaw.

Jigsaw has a presence of some sort in most cities around NZ, hopefully we help in their understand of the benefits, resources we use and inclusion of dads, either way, I think Jigsaw is a great group, and we should become a full member…!