Tangible evidence of transformational change for providers and the impact on whānau are highlighted in the latest Whānau Ora research and reporting results.

Whānau Transformation Reporting

(September 2012 – December 2012)

Whānau capacity building is pivotal to a Whānau Ora approach and to ensuring that whānau have the resilience and self-determination to meet their aspirations.

How are collectives building whānau capacity?

• Supporting whānau to come together, identify their aspirations and needs, and identify how they can prioritise these.
• Specialist advice and counselling for mental health, relationships and family violence enable whānau to deal better with their issues and support each other.
• Tailoring collectives’ programmes and services around common issues occurring through whānau planning.
• Whānau have gained knowledge and skills that improve their options for employment, ability to manage money better, choice of healthier food options, to connect with wider whānau and to strengthen cultural links and identity.

“Whānau Ora is a wonderful thing – it’s embracing, you can’t put a number to it. Whānau Ora saved me, it really did. It hauled me up and kept me going – that’s what it’s all about.” Grandmother Case Study – Whānau Transformation Reporting

Action Research Reports

(December 2012 – March 2013)

Key themes and findings indicate a definite ‘shift’ towards a collective approach that is more whānau-centred and influenced by best outcomes for whānau.

Key findings

• A growing confidence in a collective approach.
• Navigation drives organisational change.
• A developing workforce combining inherent skills with professional practice.
• Resourcing and capacity needs to match whānau-centred service delivery.
• Whānau planning is a ‘change’ tool for whānau.
• Collaboration to affect change for whānau.

“One whānau champion identified education as a vehicle to transformation for his whānau. He moved ... to a place of empowerment ... his enrolment at a local polytechnic led to other whānau enrolling also ...” Navigator Case Study – Action Research Reports

“[Whānau Ora is] the one programme that does appear to have the ability to reach those families in real deprivation, and their surrounding communities – that is why we have continued to support its rollout and expansion.” Hon Bill English Deputy Prime Minister