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Positive and Proud

Positive and Proud. building a community that supports tamariki and whānau in life crises. POSITIVE & PROUD. Merivale, Tauranga. Demographics Only decile 10 community in Tauranga 2,400 people in <900 homes 30% under 15 37% single parent families 40% Māori 34% no qualifications

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Positive and Proud

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  1. Positive and Proud building a community that supports tamariki and whānau in life crises

  2. POSITIVE & PROUD Merivale, Tauranga • Demographics • Only decile 10 community in Tauranga • 2,400 people in <900 homes • 30% under 15 • 37% single parent families • 40% Māori • 34% no qualifications • Unemployment rate double the national rate • BOP has 5th highest suicide rate in the country

  3. POSITIVE & PROUD Findings • People want to feel safer • We need to provide opportunity to young people • We need to enhance support for parents and whānau • People want to improve our physical environment • Our model to meet these needs: • Connecting Merivale • Manaaki Mokopuna • Transition Merivale

  4. POSITIVE & PROUD Manaaki Mokopuna • What’s going on in Merivale? • Factors: alcohol, violence & the recession • Anomie & strain theory • Affluenza • Manaaki Mokopuna is a rebellion • we want to grow a community that: • eschews dysfunctional societal goals & means • becomes an intentional urban community [resilience]

  5. Mertons Deviance Typology Institutional Means Accept Reject Accept Cultural Goals Reject Conformity Innovation Ritualism Retreatism New Means New Goals Rebellion

  6. MVL LOCALZ

  7. POSITIVE & PROUD Connecting Merivale • Community development = relationship development • When people feel safe they can engage with services • Professional boundaries OR relational distancing? • Increasing specialisation of services • SO, we... • focus on building relationships and connections with people (rather than building a client base) • creatively link people with the services & supports they need

  8. POSITIVE & PROUD Current approach • population-based programmes for depression & alcohol use • mental health and problem-solving skills • community-level suicide prevention programmes • educational programmes for professionals • integrate & enhance community & primary care • psychotherapeutic & pharmacotherapeutic treatments Suicide Prevention in New Zealand A contemporary perspective: Social explanations for suicide in New Zealand Published in May 2005 by theMinistry of Health

  9. POSITIVE & PROUD It’s the economy stupid Why inequality matters child wellbeing is worse in unequal societies - and despite what many of us fondly imagine to be this country's egalitarian values, we are, thanks to some accelerated widening in incomes between rich and poor in the 1980s and 1990s, one of the most unequal countries in the developed world. Tapu Misa – NZ Herald The long term solution... is therefore to move beyond the "growth at all costs" economic model to a model that recognizes the real costs and benefits of growth. We can break our addiction to fossil fuels, over-consumption, and the current economic model and create a more sustainable and desirable future that focuses on quality of life rather than merely quantity of consumption. It will not be easy; it will require a new vision, new measures, and new institutions. It will require a redesign of our entire society. But it is not a sacrifice of quality of life to break this addiction. Quite the contrary, it is a sacrifice not to.Robert Costanza

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