This work is with Tāmaki Response (a part of the Tāmaki Regeneration Programme) to understand the needs of people in Tāmaki to create a wrap around support service for whānau in high need. “The Whānau by Whānau service will be for Tāmaki families who face complex and multiple problems, struggle to access the services and …
Early Years Hub Consultation
We were approached by the Tāmaki Regeneration Company to conduct interviews and a group workshop as part of the scoping phase of the Co-Design creation for the Early Years Hub soon to be created in Tāmaki. Three of our practitioners recruited for, then conducted a series of interviews with parents of young children in Tāmaki. We then …
Phenomenal Young Women
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 …
Live Lightly Tāmaki
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 …
The Tāmaki Youth Wellbeing Project
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 …
Lowering Social Supply Project
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 makes The Pockets of Hope Community Dinner successful?
One of our practitioners views of a local community dinner that The HEART Movement facilitates every Friday night.
Hapai Te Hauora Smokefree Youth Pledge
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 Re-designed
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 …
The Community Office
Creating spaces for community groups to flourish and grow, Rākau Tautoko became a part of a partner to create a network of hot desk spaces in Panmure, Auckland.
