Donovan Clarke
Waikato-Tainui, Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Manu, Ngāti Te Ata | Chairman of Te Rau Ora Board of Directors
Te Pōari
Te Pōari Te Rau Ora has a passionate and committed Board of Directors who have dedicated themselves to making a difference for Māori health and wellbeing outcomes.
Ō Tātou Kaimahi
Ngā Kaimahi Te Rau Ora (TRO) kaimahi are passionate and committed to making a tangible difference for Māori health and wellbeing outcomes. With a diverse range of skills and life experiences kaimahi work alongside whānau, hapū, iwi, NGOs, Government, education, and communities across Aotearoa. Executive Leadership Team Our Kaimahi
Kēmu – Māori Health Quiz
Looking for an activity to increase your organisation’s knowledge of Māori Health? Then the Kēmu – Māori Health Quiz could be for you. Kēmu is a daily Māori Health Quiz designed to test people’s knowledge of “All Things Māori Health – including Māori Health Leaders, Māori Frameworks, Māori Strategies, Mātauranga Māori and Te Reo Māori …
Celebrating Frontline Workforces: Ngā Mihi Campaign
Ngā Mihi is an online campaign to demonstrate our gratitude, appreciation and love to our essential workforces responding to COVID-19. Launched in December 2021, the campaign has reached a combined audience of 336,000 people through partnerships with Māori Media, Māori Radio Stations, and Social Media. The programme has also curated and shared over 1,500 stories …
Pulse Survey: Māori Provider Wellbeing COVID-19
Over the past two years, it has become increasingly clear how vital our Māori Organisations are to the communities they serve. They have been unwavering in their commitment, ingenuity, and innovation – often going above and beyond to ensure the health and wellbeing of whānau. As a national workforce centre, we work closely with Māori …
Celebrating 20 Years: Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing
The Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing is a peer-reviewed, open-access, scholarly online journal that shares multi-disciplinary indigenous knowledge and research experience amongst indigenous health professionals, leaders, researchers, and community members. In 2003, under the leadership of Dr Nancy Gibson and her team at the Edmonton ACADRE Centre the inaugural issue of Pimatisiwin: A Journal of Aboriginal …
Celebrating 20 Years: Centre of Māori Suicide Prevention
The Centre of Māori Suicide Prevention offers a range of kaupapa to promote wellbeing for Māori whānau to address the issue of suicide within communities throughout Aotearoa. The Centre fosters local leadership, building our young people, communities and whānau capacity to enhance their own wellbeing. For Māori, the reasons for suicide are many and varied. …
Celebrating 20 Years: Manaaki Ora Wellbeing App
The Manaaki Ora app is designed to provide guidance and tips on how to self-help or support others who might be going through hard times or distress. Individuals and whānau can find creative, simple, and innovative activities to build wellbeing and resilience. This includes helping whānau identify their feelings and when they feel overwhelmed, where …
Celebrating 20 Years: Tiaki Whānau, Tiaki Ora
Building the capacity and capability of Māori whānau and Māori communities, to prevent suicide is a core goal of Te Rau Ora and the Centre of Māori Suicide Prevention. Launched in 2018, the Tiaki Whānau – Tiaki Ora programme is designed to build healthy whānau by fostering awareness of protective factors and strategies that will …
Celebrating 20 Years: He Puna Whakaata – Therapeutic Approaches
He Puna Whakaata was developed by Dr Andre McLachlan and tested with whānau in the Rangitīkei and Whanganui, as well as the Māori psychologists who attended He Paiaka Totara, Māori psychologist wānanga at Tokorangi Marae in June 2016. This resulted in the development of the workforce resource He Puna Whakaata: Therapeutic Activities to Guide Change. …
Celebrating 20 Years: Māori Addictions
Over the last 20 years, Te Rau Ora has played a key role in the development of the Māori Providers and Māori workforces that support healing from substance misuse. Our work is helped to foster Māori Addiction Sector leadership, build the evidence base for kaupapa Māori Addictions practice, support kaupapa Māori informed education and training, …
Celebrating 20 Years: Mauri Ora – Social Innovation Model
A unique social innovation model was implemented during COVID 19 Pandemic in New Zealand, with eight Māori who live with Schizophrenia and health and social challenges. The social innovation was made possible through a partnership between Te Rau Ora, Waikato District Health Board, Janssen, Johnson & Johnson Global and Manawanui. The innovation piloted a suite …
Celebrating 20 Years: Education for Social Change
Nōku te Ao is a social movement to end prejudice and discrimination and increase inclusion for people with experience of mental distress. It is a multi-level programme, based on kaupapa Māori principles, with national campaigns and communications, media monitoring and community-led social movement activities, education, and social action grants. Te Rau Ora, in partnership with …
Celebrating 20 Years: Te Kete Pounamu
Te Kete Pounamu is the National Organisation for Maori with lived experience. The movement was formed in 2015 following increasing concern of the use of harmful restrictive practices on Māori and the increasing inequities in Māori Health and Wellbeing. Since their formation, Te Kete Pounamu has established regional networks spanning the length and breadth of …
Tiakina te Āhuru Mōwai Wānanga
Tiakina te Āhuru Mōwai wānanga aims to develop strong reflective practitioners who place Wahine and their whānau at the centre of their practice. Tiakina te Āhuru Mōwai is a programme led by Wahine Māori developed to enhance frontline workforce capability to work effectively with Wahine Māori and their whānau, in contexts where there are vulnerabilities …
Celebrating 20 Years: He Whare Wahine
He Whare Wahine is newly established to deliberately focus on Wahine and Kotiro Māori, and to restore their status through a workforce that honours and values Oranga wahine, Mana wahine and Rangatira wahine. The team of Wahine Māori are committed to restoring the status and mana of Wahine Māori as endowed at Kurawaka. The goal …
Celebrating 20 Years: Pātikitiki Māori Frameworks
Kaupapa Māori services, programmes and approaches will continue to play an essential role in addressing whānau wellbeing, especially when there is a greater prevalence in complex health and social issues that require holistic, culturally led, and ongoing interventions which can only be provided by a skilled Māori multidisciplinary workforce, able to sustain effective long-term relationships …
Supporting Kaupapa Māori IMPHA Workforce Development
In December 2021, the Ministry of Health approached Te Rau Ora to support workforce development within the Kaupapa Māori Providers selected to deliver the Tuakana-Teina Stream of the new integrated primary mental health and addiction (IPMHA) services for Access and Choice. The Ministry has asked Te Rau Ora to engage in an analysis of Māori …
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 …
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 …
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) …
Te Rau Ora Celebrated 20 Years of Service
2022 is a special year for Te Rau Ora, as we celebrate our 20th Anniversary, reflecting a generation of dedication to the transformation of Māori health. Throughout our history, we have advocated for Māori and challenged the status quo – for a world where our people could thrive. We are now entering a time of …
Tuari Potiki appointed to the Board of Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission
Tuari Potiki has been appointed to the Board of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission. Tuari brings over 30 years of experience in the alcohol, drug, and mental health sector, contributing at all levels of sector development from his personal experience, to working as a clinician and involvement in strategic management. Tuari is Chair of …
Te Rau Ora congratulates Donna Matahaere-Atariki our 2021 Dame Tariana Turia Award Recipient.
This is Donna’s Story I was born in Tuatapere in Western Southland, one of the first babies born in the newly opened Maternity Home in the late 1950s. I was what was termed back then a ‘blue baby’, my mother was told to take me home and keep an eye on me. Not many blue …