"Lines of Connection between Whanau Ora & Sexual Health" was the speech by Wheturangi Walsh-Tapiata to the New Zealand Sexual Health Society Conference 2012. Wheturangi Walsh-Tapiata comes from Ngarauru, Te Atihaunui-a-Paparangi, Ngati Raukawa ki te tonga, Ngati Rangi and Te Ati Awa. She is an educator, having taught social work, social services and Maori development at Massey University, for Te Korowai Aroha o Aotearoa, at Te Wananga o Raukawa and now at Te Wananga o Aotearoa. Her research and writing interests are around Whanau, Hapu and Iwi development, Maori development, Indigenous development, Community development and Maori rangatahi. In the last couple of years she was awarded an Indigenous Fellowship to study at the United Nations, in Geneva Switzerland. On returning to Aotearoa New Zealand, she was invited to be a governance member of the Taihauauru Whanau Ora Regional Leadership group and has visited many communities in the Taranaki, Wanganui, Manawatu and Horowhenua communities promoting and advocating for Whanau Ora. Wheturangi tamariki (children) have all grown up in kohanga reo, kura kaupapa and wharekura and therefore Maori education and the survival of Te Reo within whanau is another passion area.

1. Lines of Connection
between Whanau Ora &
Sexual Health
Wheturangi Walsh-Tapiata

2. The History of Whanau Ora
• He Korowai Oranga report
• The Taskforce Report
• Development of Whanau Centered
Services
• Development of WIIES
• Cross Ministry initiatives

3. The Taskforce Report
• Common themes:
– The need for Whanau Ora to demonstrate a
‘Maori heart’
– Ensure local representation in decision making
– Minimal bureacracy
– Sustainability and adequate resourcing
– A research and evaluation component
– Quality relationships between whanau,
providers and iwi.

4. The 5 part framework
• A whanau aspirational aim
• Principles
• Whanau outcome goals
• Whanau-centred services
• A Whanau Ora Trust

5. Whanau Outcome Goals
• Self managing
• Living healthy lifestyles
• Participating fully in society
• Confidently participating in Te Ao Maori
• Economically secure and successfully involved
in wealth creation
• Cohesive, resilient and nurturing

6. Distinctive features
Whanau Centred Other Ministry
WIIE
Services approaches
A mind set. A Whanau Centred
way of thinking. approach

7. Ministries Involved
Te Puni Kokiri
(Ministry of Maori Ministry of Health
Development)
Ministry of Social Ministry of
Development Education
Governance CE’s
of key Ministries

8. Regional Leadership groups (10)
Link community Hear community
Meet with
to government issues and
Community
agencies stories
Report to
Review funding Link whanau to
Governance
applications TPK
group
Regional
Strategic
relationships

9. Whanau centred services
Collaborations of
Integrated
community
contracts
organisations
Working
collaboratively to
Whanau Navigators
provide a wrap
around service
Action Research

10. Whanau Integration, Innovation
and Engagement Fund (WIIE)
• Whanau whakapapa (geneology)
• Whanau a kaupapa (interested groups)
• An acronym that represents ‘we’ not ‘I’
Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi,
ēngari he toa taki mano’
(my achievement, was not
mine alone, it belongs to
many)

11. What needs to happen?
• Are you interested in being a part of the
Whanau Ora initiative?
• What does that mean you need to do?
• How might this differ for the range of
practitioners that you have?
• What is your strategy?
• What is your plan?

12. Whakatauki
• “Ko te pae tawhiti whaia kia tata, ko te pae
tata whakamaua kia tina”
“Seek out the distant horizons and pull them
closer, hold steadfast to the ones that you
have already attained.”