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Mana Ake [Mental Health Support for Children]

Mana Ake will provide 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’.

About Mana Ake

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:

Direct support to children experiencing social, emotional or behavioural challenges
Clarification of local support pathways, making it easier for schools, teachers and whānau to access support when and where they need it.
Support for schools to make improvements to the school environment using the whole of school and classroom wellbeing programmes and wellbeing promotion
Service sector improvements by providing greater collaboration across Health, Education and social sector partners in the provision of support.

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 supports.