SAFE

Before we went to Fiji, I had started my new job at SAFE. SAFE is an agency (one of three in this country) providing counselling services for adult sex offenders and adolescents with sexually harmful behaviors. I am one of the therapists within the Youth Team.

I enjoy this job a lot. Working with teenage boys is extremely stimulating and rewarding, though challenging. Most of the boys have histories of trauma and victimization, which is what most of us focus on when treating them and trying to understand and help them understand their offenses.

My colleagues are a neat group of people. We are a fairly new team (there has been a big turnover at the agency within the last two years) but we are having lots of fun together. Having sense of humor in this line of work helps a lot.

I think that SAFE will be IT for me for as long as we are in New Zealand.