Te Arawa ki Tūwharetoa Collaborative Design Plan

How can Te Ara Tauwhirotanga help reduce inequity for Māori and improve population wellbeing?

 

Kaupapa

The outcome of a sector wide, multi-provider co-design project undertaken in November 2018 sets the platform for this  kaupapa. Te Ara Tauwhirotanga was a purposeful process that maximised consumer and whānau input into what services needed to look like, who should be delivering them, where they should be and how they should maximise access. Enabling the communities of interest in mental health & addictions to engage in the process required pro-active communication and the conveying of certainty that their input was valued and important.

In late 2021 and early 2022, Te Ohu (the project team) utilised the Pou from Te Ara Tauwhirotanga and ran wānanga/workshops to ask people “How” Te Ara Tauwhirotanga can be actioned so that services work better for everyone, especially for Māori.

There were 5 ideas that came from the workshops that stood out. People wanted:

  1. More Te Ao Māori world view with alternative, holistic, and traditional healing practices

  2. More engagement with whānau 

  3. More connection and communication between services and with consumers and whānau

  4. Some form of community 'space' offering immediate friendly and kind support

  5. More lived experience/peer workforce

Ngā Pou Matua (governance group) recommended that the idea of developing a community space which is underpinned by Te Ao Māori and offers peer support, whānau engagement and connects people and services together is explored. 

Governance/Advisory  Group:  Ngā Pou Matua

Key leaders, innovators, motivators and local champions were part of the Governance Group for this project. They represented iwi, service users, whānau and NGO.