Celebrating 20 Years: Whānau & Community-Led Health Responses

Whānau and Community-led (health) responses are a way of improving health and wellbeing that starts with what people say is important to them. It supports communities experiencing disadvantage and poor health to identify what they find important, and to take the lead in developing and implementing their solutions. Te Rau Ora has utilised Community-Led Responses …

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Celebrating 20 Years: Māori knowledge and understanding so that whānau can stand tall

Over three or more decades, responses to Māori health have increasingly steered away from a ‘one size fits all’ approach to greater recognition of mātauranga Māori and tikanga Māori. We have seen the evolution of kaupapa Māori services in health, social services, and education, as well as extraordinary increases in the Māori health workforce. Not …

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Celebrating 20 Years: 20 Years of Service to Māori Nursing.

Huarahi Whakatū was born in the early 2000s from a desire to recognise, affirm and support a workforce that was both clinically and culturally competent. A partnership between Te Rau Matatini, Te Ao Māramatanga – Māori Caucus (New Zealand College of Mental Health Nurses), Te Kaunihera o Ngā Neehi Māori (National Council of Māori Nurses) …

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He Puna Whakaata – Therapeutic Engagement with Māori

He Puna Whakaata is a values-based mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) programme for practitioners which teaches how to improve their therapeutic engagement with Māori clients. He Puna Whakaata is delivered by Dr Andre McLachlan (Registered Clinical Psychologist, Registered Alcohol and Drug Practitioner) and Sarah Kinred (Kaitiaki Mātauranga Māori, Te Rau Ora), a team that has strong …

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