Tūmunako is a space to ignite the voices and experiences of whaiora Māori. The programme provides a vehicle for whaiora Māori to share their own personal journey to health and wellbeing through creative expression, culture, and music. Tūmunako was developed by Te Kete Pounamu in partnership with Mana o Te Tangata. It started with the formation … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
Te Kete Pounamu is the National Organisation for Māori 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 … Read more
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 … Read more
Whānau and community-led (health) responses is 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 … Read more
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 … Read more
The Henry Rongomau Bennett Memorial Scholarship programme was instrumental in increasing numbers of practicing Māori psychiatrists, supporting 10 psychiatrists in total from 2002-2010. The first Māori Psychiatric Registrars who received support from the Henry Rongomau Bennett Memorial Scholarship were (1) Hinemoa Elder (2) Donna Clarke (3) Mark Lawrence (4) Thomas Ricket (5) Cameron Lacey In … Read more
The development of cultural competency and cultural safety is embedded throughout Te Rau Ora Training Programmes. Cultural competence is the ability to interact respectfully and effectively with persons from a background different from one’s own. It goes beyond an awareness of or sensitivity to another culture, to include the ability to use that knowledge in … Read more
As a national workforce centre, Te Rau Ora has had the privilege of enabling and supporting emerging leaders, workforces, networks, community groups and professional organisations. Our 100 Māori Leaders programme is one of the ways we build the profile of the Māori Leaders of today. The programme identifies Māori at the top of health career … Read more