Implementing Mahi A Atua as a service response: “Te Kūwatawata ki Hauraki"

In our July webinar, Riana Manuel and Taima Campbell from Te Korowai Hauora o Hauraki, will discuss the newly implemented Te Kūwatawata ki Hauraki. This is a mental health immediate response service that uses an holistic Māori approach based on Mahi a Atua to help whānau suffering mental distress.

11am NZ time, Mon 13th July 2020.  Book here.

Watch the Recording: Māori Recovery: Challenges and Opportunities – Perspectives for Covid-19

Thanks to Dr Regan Potangaroa, Adrian Te Patu and Maire Kipa for presenting on the challenges and opportunities for Māori recovery from the Covid-19 situation, based on learnings from Otautahi and other indigenous disaster experiences.

Watch the recording here

Contribute to a survey about Aotearoa's Community and Voluntary Sector

Community Research is working with ComVoices to gather information from community organisations about how they fared during the Covid-19 lockdown and the issues that affect their work. With the election looming, it is a great time to contribute to this survey, to ensure our Sector gets heard by politicians. Find the survey here.

Help us create a new research collection tackling racism, discrimination and injustice

Inspired by the #BLM movement, as well as the struggles of tangata whenua here in Aotearoa, we are working on creating a space on our website dedicated to research and practical tools that will help individuals and organisations tackle racism, discrimination and overall, injustice. If you have research or tools that'll help us with this kaupapa, please email us here.

Protecting and promoting mental well-being: Beyond COVID-19

Koi Tū, an independent think tank and research centre at the University of Auckland, has released this discussion paper, which focuses on mitigating the threats posed by COVID-19 to the mental well-being of New Zealanders – both the already vulnerable sectors of society, as well as newly at-risk individuals facing major, unexpected disruptions in their lives.

To read this and other papers in the series, click here.

Tamarack Institute - Free webinars on Community Change

Tamarack hosts a number of free webinars throughout the year featuring thought-leaders from the field of community change.  Webinars in July include uncovering the powerful engagement tool of 'Circle Practice' where peoples'  experiences are shared to advance positive change, plus approaches and tools to help change-makers.

More details on their website here.