raising the bar "lines of connection between whanau ora & sexual health"
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"Lines of Connection between Whanau Ora & Sexual Health" was the speech by Wheturangi Walsh-Tapiata to the New Zealand Sexual Health Society Conference 2012. Wheturangi Walsh-Tapiata comes from Ngarauru, Te Atihaunui-a-Paparangi, Ngati Raukawa ki te tonga, Ngati Rangi and Te Ati Awa. She is an educator, having taught social work, social services and Maori development at Massey University, for Te Korowai Aroha o Aotearoa, at Te Wananga o Raukawa and now at Te Wananga o Aotearoa. Her research and writing interests are around Whanau, Hapu and Iwi development, Maori development, Indigenous development, Community development and Maori rangatahi. In the last couple of years she was awarded an Indigenous Fellowship to study at the United Nations, in Geneva Switzerland. On returning to Aotearoa New Zealand, she was invited to be a governance member of the Taihauauru Whanau Ora Regional Leadership group and has visited many communities in the Taranaki, Wanganui, Manawatu and Horowhenua communities promoting and advocating for Whanau Ora. Wheturangi tamariki (children) have all grown up in kohanga reo, kura kaupapa and wharekura and therefore Maori education and the survival of Te Reo within whanau is another passion area.TRANSCRIPT
Wheturangi Walsh-Tapiata
Lines of Connection
between Whanau Ora &
Sexual Health
• He Korowai Oranga report
• The Taskforce Report
• Development of Whanau Centered Services
• Development of WIIES
• Cross Ministry initiatives
The History of Whanau Ora
• Common themes:
– The need for Whanau Ora to demonstrate a ‘Maori heart’
– Ensure local representation in decision making
– Minimal bureacracy
– Sustainability and adequate resourcing
– A research and evaluation component
– Quality relationships between whanau, providers and iwi.
The Taskforce Report
• A whanau aspirational aim
• Principles
• Whanau outcome goals
• Whanau-centred services
• A Whanau Ora Trust
The 5 part framework
Whanau Outcome Goals
• Self managing
• Living healthy lifestyles
• Participating fully in society
• Confidently participating in Te Ao Maori
• Economically secure and successfully involved in wealth creation
• Cohesive, resilient and nurturing
Distinctive features
Whanau Centred Services
WIIE Other Ministry
approaches
A mind set. A way of thinking.
Whanau Centred approach
Te Puni Kokiri (Ministry of Maori
Development) Ministry of Health
Ministry of Social Development
Ministry of Education
Governance CE’s of key Ministries
Ministries Involved
Meet with Community
Link community to government
agencies
Hear community issues and
stories
Review funding applications
Report to Governance
group
Link whanau to TPK
Regional Strategic
relationships
Regional Leadership groups (10)
Collaborations of community
organisations
Integrated contracts
Working collaboratively to
provide a wrap around service
Whanau Navigators
Action Research
Whanau centred services
Whanau Integration, Innovation and Engagement Fund (WIIE)
• Whanau whakapapa (geneology)
• Whanau a kaupapa (interested groups)
• An acronym that represents ‘we’ not ‘I’
Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi,
ēngari he toa taki mano’
(my achievement, was not
mine alone, it belongs to
many)
• Are you interested in being a part of the Whanau Ora initiative?
• What does that mean you need to do?
• How might this differ for the range of practitioners that you have?
• What is your strategy?
• What is your plan?
What needs to happen?
Whakatauki
• “Ko te pae tawhiti whaia kia tata, ko te pae tata whakamaua kia tina” “Seek out the distant horizons and pull them closer, hold steadfast to the ones that you have already attained.”