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Who We Are
We are people who believe that you don’t have to be a victim.
If you ever feel you are the victim of circumstance, consider this:
You can overcome this feeling with one simple action.
The moment you go looking for, or trying to create, the circumstances you want, everything in life starts to fall into place.
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| Biographies |
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Annebeth Riles Broad
Annebeth has thirty years of experience in family building, community development, and cross-cultural relationships in New Zealand. She opened the first Montessori School in Rotorua, in 1979 for her children, and their friends. It was a voluntary organisation.
Annebeth served as Field Officer for the New Zealand Epilepsy Association, and then co-founded the Attendant Care, for people with physical disabilities, in the Bay of Plenty. She pioneered the cause of concentrating on abilities, rather than disabilities.
She was a founding member of the first Women's Health Centre in Rotorua, holding initial meetings in her home.
Annebeth went on to form Action Care that gave assistance to ACC clients, with special interests in head injuries, and resulting neurological disorders. She received a Ministerial appointment to serve on the board for Regional Access Schemes.
For two years, Annebeth had the privilege of living among the Ngati Pikiao hapu, of the Te Arawa tribe, on Parua Marae, and surrounding whenua (land) deepening her understanding of Maori Culture.
Annebeth earned an MBA at Massey University, applying all assignments to solving problems associated with youth and families at risk. Her research was taken to the United Nations, and received outstanding endorsement by UNICEF in 1997.
In conjunction with Judge David Caruthers, and Paul Hapeta, Youth Justice Co-coordinator, Annebeth facilitated the first conference "Collaboration is the Key", in Palmerton North, bringing together Justice, Education, Social Welfare, Youth Advocates and others to begin working together to solve problems associated with youth and families at risk.
Annebeth is Founder and Director of No-Excuses Training, one of the most comprehensive privately owned training programmes in the world. She founded and serves as CEO of Family Building Centres, that pattern positive family life, and eliminates domestic violence. She serves in both organisations as a volunteer.
Annebeth is a board member of Abbey Oceania, dedicated to promoting the collaboration of community groups, service clubs, faith-based initiatives, NGOs and government to work co-operatively in solving social and economic problems.
Annebeth has served as board member of the Creation Museum of New Zealand since 2004. Annebeth is a director of Bountiful Blessings Limited, established in 1999. Annebeth did a 25-country world tour in 2005, sowing seeds of knowledge, about family love, and correction wherever she traveled. Annebeth hosts national and international guests, ecologists, academics, artists, musicians and politicians, each year at her lodge in the Pelorus Sound.
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Annebeth studied at Stockton State College, and the University of California La Jolla, Davis, and Berkeley. She is a graduate of Grace School of Montessori. She studied Earth Science at Waikato University, and Maori Language, Art & Design at Wairaiki.
Annebeth has also earned a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Massey University, in 1998.
Annebeth is 55 years old, married, with four children, and two grandchildren. She is a foster mum to many, an auntie to many more, and now a beloved Nani Ani, who teaches the difference between right and wrong, to hundreds. She currently resides between two New Zealand properties, in the Marlborough Sounds and Otago, and lectures overseas once a year.
Annebeth is the International Director for the International Association of Correctional Training Personnel, and a member of the World Federation for Mental Health, and the International Association of Facilitators, and the International Association of Administrative Professionals.
Her favorite book is the Bible, the best seller of all time, as accurate today as the day that it was written. The Word of God is her comfort and her strength.
Annebeth's greatest desire is to see an improvement in family life and safety, and a reduction in community crime, contributing to a peaceful order in civil society, and in making poverty history.
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Tony Broad
Tony spent six years as a mathematical statistician with the NZ government statistical service, followed by 16 years in the securities industry, working in share market research, investment banking and corporate management, for New Zealand's leading securities and investment banking firm. From 1995 to 2001, he was responsible for corporate services and human resources; credit and market risk management; finance, tax and insurance; equity, fixed income and futures settlement operations; information technology; legal, compliance and new business development functions. He left the bank in 2001 to develop family business projects, establishing an eco-tourist haven in the Marlborough Sounds and a natural history museum near Dunedin.
Tony has a BSc(Hons) in Mathematics from the University of Otago.
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What We Do
We provide training, technical assistance, information services, and policy/programme development assistance to national, state, and local corrections, social welfare, and mental health agencies.
Through cooperative agreements, we seek and award funds to support our programme initiatives.
We also provide leadership to influence correctional, welfare, and health policies, practices, and operations globally, in areas of emerging interest and concern to executives and practitioners, as well as public policymakers.
We offer a range of training programmes to assist in positive individual, family, community, and national development.
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