Mr Ken Clearwater, of Kaiapoi, ONZM for services to male survivors of sexual abuse
Mr Ken Clearwater has managed the Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse Trust in Christchurch for 20 years. He helped bring about changes to legislation that allowed male survivors to be eligible for support. He established a programme, which is still used today, for men in prisons who were victims of abuse. Mr Clearwater has shared the peer-support model being used in New Zealand at international conferences and he was the Male Survivor Representative on the Government Taskforce on Action Against Sexual Violence and the Sensitive Claims Advisory Group to ACC. He has been a member of the steering group for Te Ohaaki a Hine National Network Ending Sexual Violence Together. Mr Clearwater helped establish Male Survivors Aotearoa and the South-South Institute on Sexual Violence