Mana Ake

Mana Ake creates a platform for collaboration focused on improving wellbeing outcomes for tamariki and their whānau.

Thirteen NGOs employ Mana Ake kaimahi to work collaboratively in virtual teams following a mutually agreed practice framework. This builds system connectedness.

By working with schools to understand the unique needs of their communities, kaimahi design and deliver programmes to enhance emotional regulation and psychological resilience specific to their context. These include programmes for Māori and Pasifika tamariki that enhance cultural connectedness, programmes for ākonga (learners) with autism that enhance social connectedness and programmes that support ākonga transition to and between schools.

Mana Ake Kaiārahi (team leaders) work with school clusters to use data to identify trends and opportunities for early intervention. Termly cluster forums bring school leaders from across the region together to share innovation and learn from each other, with a strong focus on building sustainability.

To help build long term sustainability, Mana Ake has engaged schools in a journey of transformational change by facilitating collaborative practice and supporting them to develop their knowledge and confidence to contribute to akonga wellbeing.

Through Leading Lights, a web-based tool, educators have access to more than 100 pathways of support agreed locally by sector partners across health, education and social services, that describe best practice for the classroom and when and where support can be accessed.

A website for whānau provides access to information to help them support their tamariki. They can also request support from Mana Ake if they are experiencing barriers to access elsewhere.

Through a range of alliancing forums we continually revisit and reimagine the ways resources can be used to best support tamariki, their whānau, kura and communities.