Strategic Research Agenda WAKA HOURUA Leadership Group Ko Au, Ko Koe, Ko Tātou FLO: Pasifika for Life Community Fund Strategic Research Agenda Provides strategic guidance to the programme, and a voice for Māori and Pasifika suicide prevention. Fosters local leadership and supports communities across Aotearoa to develop whole-of-community Suicide Prevention Action Plans. Leads and supports the development of suicide prevention and postvention resources, research and training for Pasifika families and communities. A one-off fund of $2 million to support Māori and Pasifika communities to deliver their own suicide prevention initiatives. A one-off fund of $600,000 to support researchers to contribute to the evidence base for Māori and Pasifika suicide prevention. Every year, approximately 500 New Zealanders take their own lives by suicide. These deaths are preventable: 1 in 5 people who die by suicide are Māori Rates for Māori youth are 2.5 times higher than those for non- Māori youth Pasifika have higher suicide ideation than all other ethnicities Pasifika have suicide attempt rates three times the general population. Waka Hourua – the double-hulled canoe – is a visual representation of the strategic relationship between Te Rau Matatini and Le Va. Waka Hourua aligns with Action item 1.1 in the Ministry of Health’s New Zealand Suicide Prevention Action Plan 2013-2016: To support Māori whanau, hapū, iwi, Pasifika families and communities to develop solutions to suicide prevention A four-year national suicide prevention programme for Māori and Pasifika communities to build the capacity of Māori whānau, hapū, iwi, and Pasifika families and communities to prevent and reduce suicide and respond effectively if and when a suicide occurs.

Leadership Group

Leadership Group Professor Sir Mason Durie (Rangitane, Ngāti Kauwhata) (Chair) Phyllis Tangitu (Te Arawa, Kahungunu and Mataatua) Dr Francis Agnew (Cook Islands) Tuwhakairiora (Tu) Williams (Whakatohea, Ngaitai, Ngāti Porou) Usufonoimanu Peseta Betty Sio (Samoa)

Ko Au, Ko Koe, Ko Tātou

Ko Au, Ko Koe, Ko Tātou Te Rau Matatini is leading the Māori Community Suicide Prevention programme to support communities to develop their own whole-of- community suicide prevention plans. Pou Ārahi are facilitating the development of community suicide prevention action plans, supported by Kaitiaki who will ensure cultural safety. The approach is ‘rangahia te taurawhiri tangata’, weaving whānau, community leaders and groups together to create safe, sound individual, whānau and community responses to suicide prevention and postvention.

Ko Au, Ko Koe, Ko Tātou Wave One Pou Ārahi Taupo Bay, Northland Angela Witana (Te Aupourī, Te Rarawa) Gisborne, Tairāwhiti Jo Vanna Ropiha (Ngāti Porou, Ngāpuhi) Aranui, Canterbury Karen Morgan (Ngāi Tahu, Whakatohea) Kirikiriroa, Waikato Jon Royal (Ngāti Tamaterā, Ngāti Whanaunga, Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga) Flaxmere, Hawke’s Bay Hana Stevenson (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāi Tahu) Mataura, Southland Rex Tau Kapea (Ngāi Tuhoe, Ngāi Tahu)

Ko Au, Ko Koe, Ko Tātou Pou Ārahi suicide prevention and community development training

Community Fund

Community Fund – Round 1 Te Rau Matatini supported 17 Māori organisations through Waka Hourua Community Funding. Takerei Ruha Whānau Trust completed a four part Whānau 4 Lyfe Wānanga and Whānau healing day to identify solutions and foster their own whānau champions to help implement of whānau plans. The Waka Hourua Community Fund was a one-off contestable fund of $2 million established in 2014 to support community-based suicide intervention initiatives or projects. The Fund encourages communities to work together to develop and implement solutions to local issues.

Community Fund – Round 2 Te Rau Matatini supported 30 Māori organisations through Waka Hourua Community Funding The Mika Haka Foundation is responding to bullying, alienation and suicide risk among Māori and Pacific with a focus on LGBTQQ youth through a 6 episode webseries and performance called the Aroha Project.

Waka Hourua Māori Community Fund Programmes Te Taitimu Trust held wānanga to promote the revival, use and retention of traditional knowledge and practices in the nurturing of rangatahi to become tomorrow's rangatira. Ngā Waka O Te Tai Tokerau held a series of waka wānanga for high risk young people to learn life skills and healthy lifestyles from leaders trained in suicide prevention and healthy lifestyles.

Strategic Research Agenda

Te Rā o Te Waka Hourua A Strategic Research Agenda identified strategic priority areas for a one-off Waka Hourua research fund to contribute to the evidence base of ‘what works’ in suicide prevention for Māori and Pasifika. Realising the potential of supporting recovery Realising the importance of cultural identity Waka Hourua Research Lead Dr Kahu McClintock  (Waikato/Maniapoto, Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Porou)

There are two Māori research teams undertaking research: Dr Catherine Love is examining the outcomes of Ahikaa, a specialised Kaupapa Māori entrepreneurship education programme for rangatahi experiencing recurring trauma, and their whānau. Ngaropi Cameron is exploring whānau experiences of suicide, behavioural patterns, warning signs and cultural and social systems in Taranaki.

FLO: Pasifika for Life

15 Community Fono… Its time to talanoa “it is important that the community is made to feel ok to talk about suicide” Tongan Clergy, Hamilton. “.. Suicide was once tapu, but it is now apparent it needs to become noa…” Cook islands elder, Auckland “don’t sugar coat the subject of suicide, just say it straight” Year 13 Samoan student, Dunedin Be innovative & relevant with resources Cultural and youth appropriate information face to face engagement ( e.g. Churches, sports, music, performing arts) and social media Appropriate community led education Face to face workshops facilitated by Pasifika community leaders empowered with the right knowledge

17 Pasifika Community Fund Initiatives Just some examples: Kinetic Wayfinding presents a play titled ‘The Tautai of Digital Winds’, which is a merger of two plays ‘Tautai’ and ‘Digital Winds’. It gives voice to urban Pasifika youth born and raised in Aotearoa and explores cultural alienation, cultural disconnection and the search for identity. Hair4Life (Youth Team Trust) focuses on the role hairdressers and barbers can play in the prevention of suicide. It includes workshops to empower hairdressers with suicide prevention tools and resources, and create greater community awareness of suicide prevention.

There are two Pasifika research teams undertaking research: Dr Jemaima Tiatia-Seath is examining what Pasifika communities consider are the most important, appropriate and effective components to include in the development of Pasifika postvention guidelines. Taimalieutu Kiwi Tamasese is investigating cultural strengths and the links with suicide prevention approaches in Tokelauan, Cook Island and Samoan communities.

Relevant & Effective Resources & Information

Goals and Outcomes

The Proposed Outcomes Framework

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