Ministry of Health: NGO Health and Disability Network – Media Release

Description Māori NGOs give their perspective on proposed Health & Disability System changes repositioning Health & Disability Non-Government Organisations for the Future (A perspective for Māori NGOs) is a snapshot report by the NGO Council on behalf of the NGO Health and Disability Network. Inspired by the Health and Disability System Review, Waitangi Tribunal Health […]

The Future of Māori Health Forum

Description Sir Mason Durie: Key Note Speaker for The Future of Māori Health Forum, 30th November 2020 Grand Hall, Parliament Buildings Wellington. Download

Māori Suicide Prevention Research, Policy & Practice

Description This report includes the verbatim reports of the speakers, symposium participants and those working in Māori suicide prevention and postvention. This report identifies key issues through the voices and words of Māori Treaty and social justice advocates, academics, service providers, policy writers, researchers and those on the receiving end of current suicide prevention and […]

He Waipuna Koropupū

  Description A literature review has been undertaken in two distinct phases: the first, at the time of proposal submission and the second to provide an overview of the critical and authored literature, agency resources and Action Plans supporting suicide prevention in the Taranaki community. In the first instance, key national health documents informed phase […]

Waka Hourua, ko au, ko koe, ko tātou Māori suicide prevention community programme

  Description In 2014, the first dedicated national Māori Suicide prevention approach coupled with a Pasifika programme was launched, profiled as the Waka Hourua National Suicide Prevention Programme 2014 –2017 funded by the Ministry of Health. Te Rau Matatini, a national Māori non-government organisation and their Pasifika partner organisation Le Va, established and offered the […]

Indigenous suicide: The Tūramarama Declaration

  Description Across the globe, suicide has become a major public health concern. Indigenous suicide rates have escalated over the past two decades and continue to exceed national rates. In 2016, a Māoritribal organisation, Ngāti Pikiao, convened an international conference, Turamarama ki te Ora, to discuss global approaches to the prevention of suicide. To bring […]