WAKA HOURUA

Leadership Group

Ko Au, Ko Koe, Ko Tātou

FLO: Pasifika for Life

Community Fund

Strategic Research Agenda

Provides strategic guidance to the programme, and a voice for Māori and Pasifika suicide prevention.

Fosters local leadership and supports communities across Aotearoa to develop whole-of-community Suicide Prevention Action Plans.

Leads and supports the development of suicide prevention and postvention resources, research and training for Pasifika families and communities.

A one-off fund of $2 million to support Māori and Pasifika communities to deliver their own suicide prevention initiatives.

A one-off fund of $600,000 to support researchers to contribute to the evidence base for Māori and Pasifika suicide prevention.

Leadership Group

Leadership Group

• Professor Sir Mason Durie (Rangitane, Ngāti Kauwhata) (Chair)

• Phyllis Tangitu (Te Arawa, Kahungunu and Mataatua)

• Dr Francis Agnew (Cook Islands)

• Tuwhakairiora (Tu) Williams (Whakatohea, Ngaitai, Ngāti Porou)

• Usufonoimanu Peseta Betty Sio (Samoa)

Ko Au, Ko Koe, Ko Tātou

Ko Au, Ko Koe, Ko Tātou

Ko Au, Ko Koe, Ko Tātou

Wave One Pou Ārahi

Taupo Bay, Northland

Angela Witana (Te Aupourī, Te

Rarawa)

Kirikiriroa, Waikato

Jon Royal (Ngāti Tamaterā,

Ngāti Whanaunga,

Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga)

Gisborne, Tairāwhiti

Jo Vanna Ropiha (Ngāti Porou,

Ngāpuhi)

Flaxmere, Hawke’s Bay

Hana Stevenson(Ngāti

Kahungunu, Ngāi Tahu)

Aranui, Canterbury

Karen Morgan(Ngāi Tahu,

Whakatohea)

Mataura, Southland

Rex Tau Kapea (Ngāi Tuhoe, Ngāi

Tahu)

Ko Au, Ko Koe, Ko Tātou

Pou Ārahi suicide prevention and community development training

Community Fund

Te Rau Matatini supported 17 Māori organisations through Waka Hourua Community Funding.

Community Fund – Round 1

Takerei Ruha Whānau Trust completed a four part Whānau 4 Lyfe Wānanga and Whānau healing day to identify solutions and foster their own whānau champions to help implement of whānau plans.

Te Rau Matatini supported 30 Māori organisations through Waka Hourua Community Funding

Community Fund – Round 2

The Mika Haka Foundation is responding to bullying, alienation and suicide risk among Māori and Pacific with a focus on LGBTQQ youth through a 6 episode webseries and performance called the Aroha Project.

Waka Hourua Māori Community Fund Programmes

• Te Taitimu Trust held wānanga to promote the revival, use and retention of traditional knowledge and practices in the nurturing of rangatahi to become tomorrow's rangatira.

• Ngā Waka O Te Tai Tokerau held a series of waka wānanga for high risk young people to learn life skills and healthy lifestyles from leaders trained in suicide prevention and healthy lifestyles.

Strategic Research Agenda

Te Rā o Te Waka Hourua

A Strategic Research Agenda identified strategic priority areas for a one-off Waka Hourua research fund to contribute to the evidence base of ‘what works’ in suicide prevention for Māori and Pasifika.

• Realising the potential of supporting recovery • Realising the importance of cultural identity

Waka Hourua Research Lead Dr Kahu McClintock (Waikato/Maniapoto, Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Porou)

Māori Research

There are two Māori research teams undertaking research:

Dr Catherine Love is examining the outcomes of Ahikaa, a specialised Kaupapa Māori entrepreneurship education programme for rangatahi experiencing recurring trauma, and their whānau.

Ngaropi Cameron is exploring whānau experiences of suicide, behavioural patterns, warning signs and cultural and social systems in Taranaki.

FLO: Pasifika for Life

Its time to talanoa• “it is important that the community is made to feel ok

to talk about suicide” Tongan Clergy, Hamilton.• “.. Suicide was once tapu, but it is now apparent it

needs to become noa…” Cook islands elder, Auckland• “don’t sugar coat the subject of suicide, just say it

straight” Year 13 Samoan student, Dunedin

15 Community Fono…

Be innovative & relevant with resourcesCultural and youth appropriate information face to face

engagement ( e.g. Churches, sports, music, performing arts) and social media

Appropriate community led educationFace to face workshops facilitated by Pasifika community

leaders empowered with the right knowledge

17 Pasifika Community Fund Initiatives

Just some examples:

• Kinetic Wayfinding presents a play titled ‘The Tautai of Digital Winds’, which is a merger of two plays ‘Tautai’ and ‘Digital Winds’. It gives voice to urban Pasifika youth born and raised in Aotearoa and explores cultural alienation, cultural disconnection and the search for identity.

• Hair4Life (Youth Team Trust) focuses on the role hairdressers and barbers can play in the prevention of suicide. It includes workshops to empower hairdressers with suicide prevention tools and resources, and create greater community awareness of suicide prevention.

Pasifika Research

There are two Pasifika research teams undertaking research:

Dr Jemaima Tiatia-Seath is examining what Pasifika communities consider are the most important, appropriate and effective components to include in the development of Pasifika postvention guidelines.

Taimalieutu Kiwi Tamaseseis investigating cultural strengths and the links with suicide prevention approaches in Tokelauan, Cook Island and Samoan communities.

Relevant & Effective Resources & Information

Goals and Outcomes

The Proposed Outcomes Framework

Kia ora tātouMalo ‘aupito