Priscilla Bilby

Nurse Specialist in Family Violence Intervention Team / Starship Child Protection Team
Te Toka Tumai / Auckland & Starship Hospital

Priscilla Bilby is a dedicated Nurse Specialist working with the Family Violence Intervention Team and Starship Child Protection Team at Te Toka Tumai and Starship Hospital in Auckland. She is a trained Sexual Abuse Assessment and Treatment (SAATS) responder, supporting victims of sexual violence, FV co-ordinator for MoH VIP and is an accredited trainer for the Safe & Together Institute. This institute focuses on a model that empowers professionals to become allies to family violence survivors.  A key strength of this approach is its shift away from blaming survivors as “failing to protect,” and instead placing accountability on the person using violence by examining their pattern of coercive and controlling behaviour and its impact on children and family functioning.

Priscilla is a proud mother to three adult children and has been married to Glenn for 30 years. She continues to be a voice for change particularly in the way health professionals (HP) see children within an adults’ violence, and how HP’s use of language in documentation either supports or causes further harm for survivors.