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Central Plateau REAP’s Rangatahi and Whānau Programme

About twelve years ago Brian Griffin from Central Plateau REAP started mentoring the men whose partners and babies were being supported by Oranga Tamariki’s Family Start programme. So successful was the service that after a few years other agencies, such as Police and Probation began asking REAP to provide their clients with support – and as the community learned about the programme self-referrals also grew.

Brown Pride: helping young men to achieve their dreams through fitness, the arts and the community

“In a nutshell; we’re just three ordinary Samoan dudes from South Auckland. No flash qualifications or thick wallets, just three young men on a mission to better our people. We pretty much grew up together and now we’re more like brothers. We had this phase where we were sick of just working weekdays then just wasting it on the weekend and repeating the cycle over and over again, so we thought, why don’t we start something we can call our own … fast forward five years later and God blessed us with Brown Pride. We’re only getting started but we got big ambitions and plans ahead of us.

Getting on the right pathway using the Mana Rangatahi Ko Wai Au? Who am I? Framework

The Mana Rangatahi programme has been developed by Heidi Renata, co-founder and CEO of Dunedin-based INNOV8HQ.

After two years, even with the challenge of Covid, there is now a waka of over 150 18–24-year-olds who have used the framework to find their pathway. They may have decided to become their own boss and set up a business, or upskill and enrol in further education, or get a job. Many become a youth leader or ambassador, which means they go and speak, host at events, at places like Youth Leadership, University and council meetings.

Ko te ngako te kōrero: Māori understandings of literacy and numeracy

By Jane Furness, Bridgette Masters-Awatere, Gemma Piercy-Cameron, Bill Cochrane, Mohi Rua, Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato, University of Waikato