Practice Foundations: Te Tokotoru - Reorienting towards healing and strengthening to better support rangatahi and their whānau
With Kimi Tangaere
The fleeing driver events in recent years and indeed in this year, are a highly visible event that currently demand our attention for action and response by government agencies, community, and other services. The critical detail missed in these deficit focused stories, are all the signs and indicators of trauma and distress in early life that were missed, ignored, or ineffectively responded to. There events are opportunities to support rangatahi to rangatira, through an empathetic and appreciation of broader life realities and priorities of whānau.
Effective responses require a significant shift in how we frame and understand these responses. Te Tokotoru and Ecology of Support are beautiful models that can help us do just that!
In this session Kimi shared insights from her use of these models, particularly around healing and strengthening. This session is an opportunity to learn about these models and apply them in your practice, to better support rangatahi and their whaanau, as well as lifting these insights in a collective effort towards meaningful, whanau led, systems change.
Kimi Tangaere is of Ngaati Porou/Paakehaa decent and is part of the Evidence and Insights team embracing Te Tokotoru and the Ecology of Wellbeing at the South Auckland Social Wellbeing Board. Born and raised in South Auckland, Kimi and regularly bossed around by her older sister, has an academic background in Psychology and Population health, and hopes to pay her student loan off by 2075. Mostly importantly, Kimi is a proud Māmā to her darlings, Kiwa and Akesa.
This session is a build on last year’s Te Tokotoru session that you can catch here! If you’d prefer to read rather than watch – click here for the Te Tokotoru framework on one of our previous innovation briefs
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