This wānanga establishes the foundations for transforming Aotearoa's response to family, sexual, and gender-based violence. It shifts the focus from crisis response to prevention and healing, centered on Te Tiriti o Waitangi, uplifting Māori leadership, and creating a shared national vision for long-term system change.
Evening Workshop Rotations include:
Child Protection in Practice: Early risk awareness and collaborative support for tamariki.
Staff Risk Assessment & Workforce Safety: Protecting the wellbeing of kaimahi in complex environments.
End-to-End (E2E) & SOS Architectural Framework: An integrated model for system-wide prevention and crisis response.
Facilitator Bio
Associate Professor Alayne Mikahere-Hall Alayne is a senior Māori academic, researcher, and leader specializing in Hauora Māori, Violence and Trauma studies, and Indigenous research. She is the Co-Director of the Taupua Waiora Research Centre and an Associate Professor at Auckland University of Technology (AUT). Her work, affiliated with Ngāti Whātua, Te Rarawa, and Tainui-Maniapoto, is dedicated to reducing family violence and building culturally responsive workforce capability guided by Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
Following the foundations set in Action Plan 1, this wānanga moves from vision to action. It focuses on embedding prevention, whānau-centred responses, and community-led solutions across systems.
Key Learning Objectives:
Strengthening accountability and workforce capability.
Prioritising Māori-led approaches and early intervention.
Creating measurable change to support safer whānau, stronger communities, and systems that foster lasting transformation.
Associate Professor Alayne Mikahere-Hall Alayne is a senior Māori academic, researcher, and leader specialising in Hauora Māori, Violence and Trauma studies, and Indigenous research. She is the Co-Director of the Taupua Waiora Research Centre and an Associate Professor at Auckland University of Technology (AUT). Her work, affiliated with Ngāti Whātua, Te Rarawa, and Tainui-Maniapoto, is dedicated to reducing family violence and building culturally responsive workforce capability guided by Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
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