Pari Kawau App

Description Pari Kawau is an interactive app created to support the Pae Tata Pae Tawhiti brief and early intervention model; and practitioners and students seeking to enhance the development of their clinical and cultural practice skills. Allowing practitioners to provide and receive observed practice feedback, helping them effectively enhance a range of clinical and cultural […]

Ko Tōku Ara Rā Aotearoa, Our Journey, New Zealand COVID 19 2020

Description  The investigation into COVID-19 approaches for Indigenous people including Māori (Indigenous people of Aotearoa, New Zealand) has been limited and or inconsistent. For these reasons, it is important to capture the following challenges and particularly the success for Māori as presented over the past four months. Ko tōku ara rā, Aotearoa COVID-19 2020 encompasses […]

Ngā Kōmata o te Rangi Māori Mental Health Hui Report 2019

Description The “Ngā Kōmata-o-te-Rangi: Hauora Hinengaro Māori Mental Health and Addiction Hui” was a tenacious call to Māori to take a proactive stance for the mental health and wellness of our Māori people, ngā mana whenua o Aotearoa. The call to hui focused on realising a vision of – Oranga Tangata, Oranga Whānau, Oranga Taiao, […]

He Puna Whakaata: Therapeutic Activities to Guide Change II

Description The purpose of He Puna Whakaata is to contribute to positive outcomes for Māori. This resource describes activities that access some aspects of mātauranga Māori to be utilised in spaces where Māori seek support and healing, including; the primary health sector, whānau ora, addiction and mental health sectors and any other healing space. Practitioners […]

Mā Purapura Mai Māori Leadership

Description Mā Purapura Mai is a Māori lived experienced leadership kaupapa (programme) that comprises of five wānanga delivered by Te Rau Ora (formerly Te Rau Matatini) over a five month period.  The fifth wānanga provided an opportunity for participants to present to one another and the facilitators their reflections of the wānanga. The Dynamics of […]

He Manaaki Tangata: Tikanga Informed Guideline Adapted for Mental Health Services, and Acute Mental Health Units

Description This tikanga informed practice guideline has been adapted to guide health professionals employed within mental health services.  Targeted toward health professional practice when supporting Māori tangata whaiora and their whānau in mental health services, and especially so in the acute mental health unit.  Founded on Māori values and practices, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, as […]

Kia hora te marino – Trauma Informed Care for Māori

Description A national approach to Trauma Informed Care in Aotearoa (New Zealand) relevant to Māori (Indigenous people) must consider the effects of historical, cumulative, intergenerational and situational trauma. Seminal to this is an understanding of a pre-European Māori society where whānau violence was not acceptable nor common (Cooper, 2012; Durie, 2001; Jenkins & Harte, 2011; […]