Building engagement and empowerment
Phenomenal Young Women is a youth group for young women only, and creates spaces for young women in Tāmaki to connect. Twice a week, two wonderful facilitators (Latisha and Loma - being young women themselves!) run the sessions and create hang out spots for young women in Tāmaki to connect with each other. Mentoring support …
Our funders wanted to research and document how Tāmaki residents would like to learn about Living Lightly - making lifestyle choices to save money, and have a healthier life and planet. This was then followed by a small pilot programme to test the thoughts gathered in the research phase. We held three community focus groups enabled key …
In October 2017, Rākau Tautoko was approached to support Auckland Council in engaging key Mangere groups to come together and create a way of working together to meet the needs of the Mangere community. The following took place over two half day workshops... The facilitator was to enable all of the groups to work together …
Responding to the need of the community after a contagion of seven young people lost their lives to suicide, Rākau Tautoko led a community meeting, calling people together to create a “united community response to suicide prevention”. This led to an application for funding to The Vodafone Foundation in collaboration with Tāmaki Community Development Trust …
Our of our practitioners Ren, has undertaken a project that spanned more than two years with renewed funding over three phases. The aim was to lower the social supply of alcohol to young people in the community of Oranga - this meant coordinating the community in creating many different activities. Ren was supported by a practitioner from …
What better way to enlist the commitment of young people than Co-Design with them, their own pledge? Our lead practitioner Tara ran a full day session with the support of four Hapai Te Hauora staff to use a Co-Design process to decide collectively on key statements that the young people involved could commit to upholding. The …
TIES being re-designed involved developing and implementing TIES into a sustainable, community-led initiative on behalf of the TIES Taumata Rōpu. The engagement process included several wananga at Ruapotaka Marae, for the Tāmaki community to connect and engage with TIES - learning about the original tools and help to implement the next steps of what TIES …
Tara and Nikki worked together on the Reclaim Project to grow the community of waste based social enterprises through out both Maungakiekie and Tāmaki. This project included, Coordinating the key organisations involved in the project Build Tamaki WRAP’s experience and capacity in establishing and operating community-led resource recovery initiatives and enterprise in the area as …
Tara and Candace have been connecting and developing a network of Waste Based Social Enterprises, primarily in the Maungakiekie-Tāmaki community (and now expanding to South Auckland in 2019) and responding to their needs in their development. This has involved, The management of a warehouse to provide a location for workshops, upskilling capability, and collaborations Coordination …
Rākau Tautoko 