WHIRIA TE TANGATA
PARTNERS
WEAVING PARTNERSHIPS FOR A
STRONGER MĀORI HEALTH WORKFORCE
The relationships we have built with our Māori health sector partners are critical to helping Kia Ora Hauora provide support where it is needed when it is needed and ultimately advancing our commitment to improving Māori health and wellbeing.
We enjoy longstanding, committed and productive relationships with many of the Māori clinical and allied health associations that provide a voice and valuable support networks for our Māori health workforce.
Our mission of increasing the Māori health workforce and helping to achieve equity for Māori health outcomes is a central pou in all our relationships underpinned by Manatu Whakaaetanga, Memorandum of Understandings that sets the foundations of our individual and mutual goals and how we work together.
NGĀ POU MANA
TANGATA WHENUA ALLIED HEALTH
Ngā Pou Mana is the only membership-based national tangata whenua allied health workforce association in Aotearoa. It provides support, supervision, training and mentoring to the Māori allied health workforce.
Ngā Pou Mana and Kia Ora Hauora work in partnership to improve equity for Māori within the Health workforce, including increasing cultural capability and capacity.
Under our formal Manatu Whakaaetanga (MOU) we are committed to work collaboratively at a strategic level to achieve shared goals, particularly increasing the number of Māori working within the health workforce in Aotearoa.
Ngā Pou Mana is committed to improving Māori health and wellbeing by providing support to the Māori allied health workforce to strengthen and grow.
It exists to champion Māori to be lead-advisors to government in allied health. To advocate for health service and practices to be culturally accountable and relevant. To provide a safe space for Māori allied health kaimahi and tauira to network and build relationships. To provide training, supervision and mentoring to develop cultural and clinical practice.
Allied heath covers the diverse range of professions outside of medicine and nursing and includes social work, dentistry, pharmacy, physiotherapy, laboratory technicians, optometry, podiatry, diet and nutrition, respiratory, psychology, paramedicine and occupational therapy as well as rongoā and mātauranga Māori fields with a focus on kaupapa Māori models of practice.