Whakatau kaupapa
About our Service
About our Service
Ngāti Toa Rangatira and Te Ati Awa hold long and wide-reaching aspirations for the health, wellbeing and prosperity for our whānau, delivered through a te ao Māori lens.
We are experts in understanding and meeting the needs of our whānau.
Early in 2021 and in recognition of our collective capability, Ara Poutama Aotearoa (The Department of Corrections), Te Rūnanga o Toa Rangatira and Te Rūnanganui o Te Ati Awa signed a partnership that enables Ngāti Toa and Te Ati Awa to exercise our tino rangatiratanga and lead and deliver a kaupapa Māori service to support tāne Māori on their release from a corrections facility or who are serving community-based sentences.
Together, Te Rūnanga o Toa Rangatira and Te Rūnanganui o Te Ati Awa provides Te Whare Whakaruruhau o Raumunuka, a hollistic programme that offers 24/7 supported housing and access to kaupapa Māori health, social, education, employment and cultural services.
Mauri Ora Framework
The Mauri Ora Framework is a kaupapa Māori approach to support, recognising that the success of an individual stems from acceptance, understanding and growth and that once achieved will create success for whānau, community, hapū and iwi.
It also recognises that real and intergenerational success is not just achieved through one aspect of an individiual’s life, but rather all aspects working together in unison.
Using the Mauri Ora Framework we will ensure that all tāne receive kaupapa Māori support that recognises and accepts their life circumstances, addresses trauma from their past, assists in identifying their aspirations and then works to support the achievement of those aspirations.
Te Whare Whakaruruhau o Raumanuka will work to ensure that whānau and tāne are:
Empowered to make mana enhancing decisions
Accessing opportunities that will further enrich their mana and self-esteem where they stand with pride in their identity
Connected to their whānau and their whakapapa
Navigating their way to becoming positive role models and rangatira for their whānau and the community they live in
Free from past trauma and able to lead independent, healthy, safe and resilient lives.