Day 1 | Cultural competence, hauora Māori and cultural safety
to support Māori health equity and outcomes
The importance of whakapapa: a Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa case study
This presentation provides insights from a mainstream health organisation's participation in the Whiria Te Muka - Anti Racism pilot alongside Kaupapa Māori social innovation consultants Tokona Te Raki.
Sharing the journey that Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa has undergone to understand the impact of whakapapa on its connectedness with communities.
Dr Tania Huria (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Mutunga o Wharekauri)
Director of Hauora Māori and Equity
Tumuaki, Hauora Māori, Mana Taurite
Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa
Tania Huria (she/her/ia) is the Director of Hauora Māori and Equity at Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa, and an Associate Professor at Ōtakou Whakaihu Waka (University of Otago).
One of the outcomes from Tania's PhD was the Consolidated Criteria for Strengthening Reporting of Research involving Indigenous Peoples (The Consider Statement).
Tania has recently supported Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa through an organisational anti racism review.
Tania is also a proud māmā of two tama and a fur baby.
Improving access to abortion care in Kaitaia - a Midwifery led Early Medical Abortion (EMA) service
Shelley shares some stories of the impact this has made for whānau in her community and how she strives to provides a culturally safe service.
Shelley Tweedie (Ngāti Maniapoto)
Midwife Manager
Kaitaia Hospital
Shelley initially worked as a community-based remote rural Lead Maternity Carer (LMC) Midwife in the Far North and then as the Clinical Midwife Manager for Kaitaia Hospital.
Shelley’s time in her different roles has provided her with first hand experience and a deep understanding of the realities and challenges of rural health service delivery and the importance of thinking innovatively to develop rural maternity services that promote and support hauora and health equity for whānau Māori and rural communities.
Health equity, hauora Māori and kaupapa Māori research
In partnership with iwi and communities, our strengths-based mahi explores culturally safe care, holds whānau at the centre and strives to eliminate avoidable harm and death.
Dr Tania Slater (Ngāti Kahu, Ngāpuhi)
Senior Research Fellow
Te Tātai Hauora o Hine (National Centre for Women’s Health Research Aotearoa)
Victoria University of Wellington
The focus of Tania’s work is equitable health outcomes for whānau Māori and this has spanned cancer prevention, screening, detection, diagnosis, treatment and palliative care.
Tania has worked across academia, government, NGO and private sectors. Her PhD research explored the role and potential of community care for Māori with cancer. She has built on this work project managing an implementation trial of HPV self-testing in Te Taitokerau.
Kotahi Mano Kāika, Kotahi Mano Wawata: Livin’ the Dream!
Te reo o Kāi Tahu has not been spoken as a living language in our communities for over one hundred years. Te Tiriti o Waitangi was signed at Ōtākou on the 13th June 1840. Kāi Tahu made their first claim against the Crown in 1849, stemming from the Crown's failure to honour its obligations regarding land purchases and treaty agreements. This pursuit of justice took almost 150 years, culminating in the Ngāi Tahu Deed of Settlement 1997.
In 2000, the iwi launched its Māori language revitalisation strategy, Kotahi Mano Kāika, Kotahi Mano Wawata. Now in its twenty fifth year, this session will discuss the many challenges and share some of the successes of this intergenerational strategy.
Paulette will then lead a short workshop session where participants can identify how they can enact cultural competency by supporting te reo Māori revitalisation within their profession and work settings.