Community Research Newsletter | Apr 2020
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E ngā roopu hapouri, tēnā koutou
In these difficult times, we offer you these resources in the hope that they may help you in your lives and in your mahi.
Kia kaha koutou. Be kind, be safe.
Sharon Armstrong - Staying Safe and Well in Isolation
Exploited by online fraudsters and scammers. Locked away in a foreign land, far from her whānau and country.
Watch Sharon's video on valuable tips and tricks for staying safe, well and positive during Covid-19 isolation, now available on our website here.
Also coming soon, Sharon discusses how to stay safe from online scammers. Keep an eye on our Facebook page for the next installment here.
Mahi a Atua - Treatment for Racism?
In our April webinar, Dr Diana Kopua gives us an insight into her work developing Mahi a Atua, a Māori approach to wellbeing drawing on the stories, narratives and healing practices of te ao Māori. Join Dr Kopua to learn about the importance of language and narratives in how we understand our world and improve our being, our whānau and our communities.
11am NZ time, Mon 20th April 2020. Book here.
Tech training and support for Community Groups
Are you interested in running webinars for your community or workplace? We are working on a video to assist those working in communities in Aotearoa to be able to run their own webinars. Until that video is available we have some capacity to run webinars at a reasonable cost. For more information click this link.
Watch the Recording: Indigenous Criminologist - Inequities of the NZ Justice system
Watch our webinar to hear Dr Juan Tauri – a.k.a The Indigenous Criminologist – present on the challenges and opportunities for improving Māori justice outcomes, following the recent social sector reforms. These have the potential to make significant changes to allow for a more just system and society in Aotearoa.
How Pākehā in Not-for-profit Organisations Implement Te Tiriti o Waitangi
After attending her first Treaty training, Nicolina found that basic knowledge about the treaty is not enough to know how to apply it in organisational context. The aim of her research was to understand how to bring the Treaty into her practice in the not-for-profit sector.
This research brings fresh perspectives to a complex systemic problem about power sharing and decolonisation in this country, showing not-for-profit workers how we have been part of the problem of colonisation, and how we can be part of the solution.
