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Mana Ake provides early intervention to promote wellbeing and mental health support for our primary and intermediate aged tamariki across Te Tai Tokerau.
The aim is to help enhance resilience, wairua, and mana so they are ‘stronger for tomorrow’.
E atawhai ana mātou
Te whakatōkia o ngā kakano i ruia mai
E nga māhuri tōtara e tipu ana mō āpōpō.
Nā tātou katoa hei awhi te kaupapa,
Hei mana ake te tū tauira tonu ai.
Haumi ē, Hui ē, Tāiki ē
We nurture and protect
the seeds sown near and far,
so that they may grow into mighty tōtara for a not so distant tomorrow.
We embrace our responsibility
To encourage students on a path of lifelong learning.
Unified! Together! Strong!
Mana Ake provides a new approach to delivering additional mental health support for children in primary and intermediate schools across the Te Tai Tokerau region.
Mana Ake seeks to provide holistic support through:
Mana Ake is strongly aligned with the recommendations made in He Ara Oranga: Report of the Government Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction (He Ara Oranga) to better equip teachers, schools, and communities to respond to the wellbeing needs of Tamariki, support Tamariki to build resilience and coping strategies, and to increase access to early intervention support.
We are:
We embrace:
Mana Ake works with local school communities to enhance wellbeing outcomes for tamariki. It provides strengths-based, evidence-informed, wellbeing and mental health support to children in the context of their school, whānau, community, and natural networks of support. This table below outlines a framework and menu of services Mana Ake may be able to offer based on the needs of the schools and tamariki involved.
Te Whatu Ora in Te Tai Tokerau have partnered with 7 community and iwi organisations to help us to deliver Mana Ake services. Our community partners will employ the Mana Ake kaimahi who will be based within schools. Our community partners have been chosen because of the range of support that they already offer within the communities including existing school-based services.
Our community providers along with the Te Whatu Ora team will be working together to ensure that services are provided in a consistent way across Te Tai Tokerau.
Our community partners are:
We recommend you speak with the school to decide if a referral to Mana Ake is appropriate for your child or young person. The school will follow this referral process.
Mana Ake will be taking a phased approach to implementation across the 2023 and 2024 school years. If you would like to receive more information about when your school or region comes online for the service, please feel free to contact us. Otherwise, one of our team will be in touch with your school when we are ready to offer the service to your school.
Mana Ake provides support for students in years 1-8, where possible, early in the life of a wellbeing or mental health concern. Early intervention helps to prevent problems escalating and ensures students have the greatest likelihood of remaining engaged and achieving at school.
If you feel a child in your classroom or school displays a range of indicators that may suggest an emerging wellbeing or mental health concern and have observed these consistently for any extended time, please follow the school referral process.
We recommend you speak with the school to decide if a referral to Mana Ake is appropriate for your child or young person.
Our Mana Ake Canterbury site has pulled together lots of useful information for supporting your child.
HUIA publishers have nearly completed the first stage of our online platform that will provide access and resources for teachers and professionals to ‘Recognise, Respond and Refer’ to all student wellbeing pathways. If you are a wellbeing agency or professional working in schools in Te Tai Tokerau and wish to access this platform then please contact us.
We are now collecting local agency information across Te Tai Tokerau so that wellbeing pathways can be connected to local supports via the agency directory connected to the Pūmau platform above. If you are an agency or aware of any agencies that your school already work with and you would like to be featured in this directory, then please complete this online form.
In an emergency call 111 and ask for an ambulance.
Contact after-hours general practitioners
If you would like more information about Mana Ake, or would like to send us your feedback, please fill in the contact us form.
