Waitemata Hospital: No babies to be removed by Oranga Tamariki
A Māori trust and a senior health board member claim they have stopped Oranga Tamariki taking children into state care at Waitākere Hospital this morning.Dozens of people gathered at the hospital in anticipation of two children being taken into state care.Waitematā District Health Board chief adviser tikanga Dame Rangimarie Naida Glavish said the board decided last year it would not support the state's removal of babies from any of its properties.She said there was "no way" the babies would b...
June 12, 2020Te Kuku O Te Manawa - Ka puta te riri, ka momori te ngākau, ka heke ngā roimata mo tōku pēpi
Tamariki do best when they are cared for and nurtured by their whānau. For pēpi Māori, their connections to whakapapa and the importance of whanaungatanga affirm the importance of them remaining in the care of their whānau. This review recognises that ‘whānau’ extends further than immediate family and includes extended family members. Those we interviewed self-defined who was in their whānau. The Children’s Commissioner has statutory responsibilities under the Children’s Commission...
June 12, 2020Concerns social work students don't get enough cultural training
There are concerns that universities are still churning out social workers who don't have the skills to work well with Māori. It comes as report by the Children's Commissioner reveals harrowing stories of Māori mothers experiences with social workers in the state care system. Oranga Tamariki says their social workers work hard and are trained to understand colonisation and their Treaty of Waitangi responsibilities. But a lecturer in social work at Massey University Dr Paule' Ruw...
June 12, 2020‘Every time an elder dies, a library is burnt’: Amazon COVID-19 toll grows
COVID-19 kills the elderly, those with underlying health conditions, the poor and vulnerable. It is now doing so in the Brazilian Amazon where the virus killed nine Munduruku indigenous elders in just a few days. Forest people elders are typically leaders and keepers of culture, so their loss is especially destabilizing.Officially, 218 indigenous people had died of COVID-19 and 2,642 were infected as of 7 June. But experts say that the numbers are at least three times higher, with poor governmen...
June 10, 2020Eighteen ex-social workers recruited from temporary register through national campaign
Lack of employer demand and knowledge and skills gaps among reasons cited for less than 2% of those expressing an interest in rejoining workforce returning through campaign.The national campaign to bring up to 8,000 former social workers back into the profession to bolster the workforce during Covid-19 has resulted in the recruitment of 18 practitioners during its first two months.Over 1,000 people expressed an interest in returning to work as temporarily registered social workers through the&nb...
June 10, 2020Severely beaten 4yo Flaxmere boy discharged from hospital with permanent brain damage
The four-year-old boy found severely beaten at a Hastings property in January has been discharged from hospital. He was found on January 29 in a Ramsey Crescent, Flaxmere house, and Detective Inspector Mike Foster said at the time the child sustained some of the most severe injuries he'd seen in his 30-year career. The boy was later taken to Auckland's Starship Hospital in a serious condition. "He's received extensive injuries across the whole of his body," he said at the time. "He has a severe ...
June 10, 2020COVID-19 Highlights Indigenous Inequities in Canada
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Canadians have shown their support for front-line workers. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other political leaders have told Canadians “we are all in this together” and “no expense will be spared” to ensure the health and safety of Canadians.Yet, when it comes to the persistent and glaring inequities facing Indigenous communities in Canada, many of these same leaders, as well as Canadians, have fallen drastically short. The stubborn tendency of non-Ind...
June 9, 2020Māori mothers describe child welfare system as dangerous and brutal in new report
Māori mothers of newborns involved with Oranga Tamariki say the child welfare system is dangerous, brutal and racist.Their experiences have been detailed in a report from the Children's Commissioner, which was released today.Judge Andrew Becroft is calling for fundamental change at the Children's Ministry, saying the system is racist and is being let down by some poor social work.'I didn't even get to see him...' The report Te Kuku o te Manawa is focused on how to keep Māori babies a...
June 8, 2020COVID-19 and police violence fuel a push to declare anti-Black racism a public health crisis
For some, the protests erupting in reaction to the deaths of George Floyd and Regis Korchinski-Paquet have been a distraction from the COVID-19 pandemic. But Black health leaders say these two crises are connected by the same deep-rooted ill: anti-Black racism.Researchers, advocates and racialized communities have long recognized racism as being harmful to human health. But there are now calls from multiple groups to declare anti-Black racism a public health crisis — an effo...
June 8, 2020Māori speech therapist walks the talk
The first 1000 days of life are a key part of a child's development. No one understands this more than Māori speech therapist Hana Tuwhare - who helps to develop communication with pēpi.She's part of a whānau-led approach encouraging pēpi not only to korero but to develop early learning skills.As the granddaughter of renowned Ngāpuhi poet Hone Tuwhare, Hana knows the legacy language can create.She is following in his footsteps, using oral language to inspire a new generation. She's a speech...
June 7, 2020Te reo Māori use by under-fours widespread - research
A new study has found te reo Māori is flourishing among pre-schoolers, with nearly three quarters of New Zealand four-year-olds using at least some of the language.The research, led by Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi, analysed information from Growing up in New Zealand, the country's largest study of child development.It found 10 percent of children could speak or understand simple sentences in te reo Māori at age four - and about 20 percent of those were non-Māori.Executive Director of Res...
June 7, 2020Building a country free from violence against Indigenous women and girls
On the land, in classrooms, in boardrooms – wherever we choose to be is where every Indigenous woman and girl should be. Instead, I’ve watched as many of my sisters have been found dead, abandoned in rural ditches and left at the bottom of city rivers. This reality continues to persist one year after the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) released its final report, which symbolized the promise of a new era. It compiled evidence of the forces th...
June 6, 2020Indigenous communities, land rights and Covid-19
Indigenous territories impacted by oil palm, mining and criminalisation are disproportionately affected by Covid-19 - yet still they support those most vulnerable. Food sovereignty within the Indigenous communities of the Indonesian archipelago is under threat, not least during a pandemic. The Banten Kidul Indigenous Peoples are known for their advanced technique of food preservation, but violent incursions by mining companies and complicit governments threaten trad...
June 6, 2020Defending Land and Water From Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19
Over the years, the mining industry has taken advantage of dictatorship, disasters, and a variety of distractions to expand operations in Latin America. In the time of Covid-19, with entire populations under lockdown and economies falling apart, mining companies have also hopped on the pandemic profiteering bandwagon.The potential implications are wide-reaching. In Latin America, the areas of interest to mining companies whether they are exploring or digging for gold, silver, copper, iron-ore, a...
June 6, 2020A message for NZ about racism
As protests sparked by the death of George Floyd unfold across the US, David Mayeda has a message for NZ: 'For those of you who don’t experience racism, be publicly anti-racist - support those of us who do'.Monday evening in Washington D.C. shortly before a 7pm curfew and just before President Donald Trump made a White House speech, police “fired tear gas, flash-bang shells, and rubber bullets into a crowd of peaceful protestors”. By now, most of us are aware of the protests unfo...
June 4, 2020Māori-led Oranga Tamariki inquiry did not require response - Minister
Children's Minister Tracey Martin says she was never officially asked to do anything about the Māori-led inquiry into Oranga Tamariki which was commissioned by Whanau Ora.The inquiry was one of five initiated after Oranga Tamariki tried to take a newborn baby from a Hawke's Bay mother last year.The three-part report, released in February, was based on contacts with more than 1000 whānau on their experiences of the Ministry.The review detailed three key actions to overhaul the system: supportin...
June 3, 2020Nature is key to NZ's post-Covid future
Ngāi Tūhoe is coming through the Covid-19 crisis with a much stronger sense of mana motuhake, says Tāmati Kruger, chair of the iwi who are guardians of the Te Urewera mountains and land to the north in the eastern Bay of Plenty.“It is the capacity to be self-reliant, to provide care and support to each other. That proves the value and the worth of the iwi because essentially an iwi is a kinship organisation. Without hesitation I say to you, this crisis has been the best opportunity to exhib...
June 1, 2020COVID-19 ADVICE FOR MĀORI
"We are still operating under the fallacy that one size fits all. A national programme, while necessary, will exacerbate health inequities. While things are being done for the general population, they don't have an equity lens, which is essential from the beginning." - Professor Papaarangi ReidAs tangata whenua, it’s important that Māori have access to tailored and relevant information, resources and practical guidance and advice on how to manage the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-1...
June 1, 2020How COVID-19 impacts Indigenous communities
Even before COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, people were receiving the directive to repeatedly and thoroughly wash their hands. As the days go on, the need for self-isolation, whether you’re showing symptoms or not, is increasing in an attempt to flatten the curve. But what does that mean for the countless Indigenous Peoples across Canada who don’t have access to clean water or proper housing? Currently there are more than 100 drinking water advisories, external link in First Nations ...
May 30, 2020Youthline Supporters Squad
...
May 30, 2020An iwi-based futures lab is reimagining outcomes for its rangatahi
While many areas of the workforce have been shaken by the effects of Covid-19, a Ngāi Tahu futures lab has been working to give rangatahi Māori the opportunity to decide their own futures.Futurists have thought up myriad strategies for how the world should look post-Covid. For all its hurt, the global pandemic is offering nations a once in a lifetime opportunity to reshape their economies, the way people live their lives and the help they’re given along the way. For Māori, this could be a c...
May 29, 2020Covid-19 and Māori health: ‘The daily 1pm briefings have been an exercise in whiteness’
Looking at the outward face of the Covid-19 pandemic response in Aotearoa/New Zealand, you’d be forgiven for wondering where one of the Treaty partners is.No matter where you look – cabinet, those delivering official communications, experts informing the government response, submitters at the special parliamentary select committee or the go-to voices in the media – the partnership appears to be pretty lopsided.If there has been genuine Māori engagement in any of these spheres, it’s been...
May 29, 2020The vilification of ‘the Māori mother’ in Aotearoa: family violence and victim-blaming
New Zealand’s shameful rates of family violence place us at the bottom of the heap when it comes to intimate partner violence and child abuse in the OECD. Māori are among the greatest offenders and victims alike. Simon Day spoke to Denise Wilson about the history of family violence in this country and her solution to the problem.In New Zealand 194 people were killed as a result of family violence in the seven years from 2009 to 2015, according to the Family Violence Death Review Committee. M...
May 29, 2020Hokia ōu maunga kia purea koe e ngā hau o Tāwhirimātea
Wainuku and whakamā There are lots of ways to describe not feeling right or feeling like life is going in the wrong direction. This site calls it depression or anxiety. As Māori, these are some of the things we might experience:Wainuku – when your mood is really low and you feel down in the dumps. When we’re anxious or feel depressed, the waters of our bodies are dragged towards Papatūānuku. Whakamā – when you feel ashamed or shame about who you are or your situation. Maybe you’re s...
May 29, 20206th International Indigenous Voices in Social Work Conference: 2022: Aotearoa
...
May 25, 2020 Posts 4426-4450 of 4483 | Page prev next
