Twin track two: Make available a variety of specialist prevention initiatives We recommend: • enhanced support and resourcing for disabled children and young people to participate in mainstream education from early childhood education to tertiary level • ensuring that all educators and school staff receive training in neurodiversity, disability and mental distress, including the manifestations of living with violence and abuse • that all schools be resourced to provide healthy relationship, sexuality and reproductive health education to children and young people of all ages, ensuring that disabled children are not excluded and are enabled to fully participate in the learning • enhanced support and resourcing for parents raising disabled children, including additional funding for health services (if required), trained support people and adequate respite services • child-focused mental health and other therapeutic services be guaranteed for children who have been exposed to/have experienced violence • child-focused disability specialists are available in agencies such as Oranga Tamariki and disability specific placements for disabled children who have been removed from their families • that health and state agencies have training to ensure they understand both the rights of disabled adults to parent, and the rights of disabled children to live in their families of origin. Specialist and therapeutic services must include, but not be limited to: • a safeguarding adults integrated community response • therapeutic services for tāngata whaikaha Māori, disabled people, adults at risk and disabled children • specialised refuges with 24-hour on-site support for women experiencing mental distress as a result of violence and abuse • specialised refuges with 24-hour on-site support for women with substance abuse problems • accessible refuges with 24-hour on-site support for disabled women and/or women with dependent disabled children of any age • services for disabled men and boys. It is not acceptable/safe for men and women to be housed in the same services. 7. Keeping children safe from harm Children experience harm by being exposed to violence occurring in their home, from direct experience of family violence, and also by experiencing violence in a range of educational and civil society settings. Many of the recommendations in this report apply to children. However, there are some specific circumstances where disabled children’s needs and rights predominate. 56 Human Rights Commission