KIA PIKI O TE ORA
Maori
Suicide
Prevention
All Age
Strategy
Goal 1
Promote mental health and
wellbeing and prevent
mental health problems
Trina Markland
Project Manager He Oranga Pounamu
Otautahi
How will Goal 1 Prevent Mental
Health Problems for Maori?
 Strengthening - ‘I’ dentity
 Whanau
Identity
 Secure Cultural Identity
 Community
 Promote and Enhance Protective Factors
 Advance toward Whanau Ora
Matauranga Whanui
A Project of
The Ngati Hine
Health Trust
Goal 2
Improve the Care of People who are
Experiencing Mental Disorders
Associated with Suicidal Behaviour
Jacqueline Te Huia
Kia Piki te Ora Coordinator
Mid North / Whangarei Region
Objective 2 - Focus
Development of strategies, policies & services:
• Improved - recognition, treatment & management
of Maori who are experiencing mental disorders
Objective 2 – Key actions
Population Strategies
Community, Health & Institutional approaches
• Mental Health Awareness
• Reduce Stigma & discrimination
• Improve Access to services
Promotion
Mauri Ora
• Improve effectiveness of services
Service Analysis
• Improve community responsiveness
Maori Models of Health
Health Promotional events
Hui
Mauri Ora
Goal 3
Improve the care of people
who make non-fatal
suicide attempts
Te Oranga
Service Delivery Unit of Te Runanga o Te Rarawa
Local Community Action &
Intervention
Health Expo - Kaeo
Totara North School delivery
Off da wail – Kaitaia College
Whakawhanaugatanga and
Support
teAo
Hou
Goal 4
Reduce Access to the
Means of Suicide
Emma Kutia
Kia Piki o Te Ora Coordinator
Te Ao Hou PHO
Bay of Plenty
He kaupapa hauora mo nga iwi o Te Whanau a Apanui,
Ngai Tai, Te Whakatohea me Ngai Tuhoe
Te Moana –nui-a-Toi : Bay of Plenty
KAUPAPA 1 :
Gun Licensing Courses
Te Kaokao o Takapau Health & Disability Service
Taneatua, Eastern Bay of Plenty
KAUPAPA 2 :
Environmental Project
Raukura Hauora o Tainui Trust
Papakura , Tamaki-makaurau
Goal 5
Promote Safe Reporting
and Portrayal of Suicidal
Behaviour by the Media
Honoria Rophia
Kia Piki o Te Ora Coordinator
Te Kupenga Hauora-Ahuriri – Hawkes Bay
ACHIEVING GOAL 5
WITHIN HAWKE’S BAY?
 Collaboration
- Media representation on stakeholder groups
- Media training provider representation on stakeholder groups
 Education & Support
- Encourage all newspaper editors to support staff training in the safe
reporting and portrayal of suicidal behaviour
- Encourage all media training providers to include safe reporting and
portrayal of suicidal behaviour within media courses

Suicide and the Media
Goal 6
Support Families, Whanau,
Friends and Others
Affected by a Suicide or
Suicide Attempt
Terence Matthews
Kia Piki o Te Ora Coordinator
Ngaa Tai o te Awa - Whanganui
Maaku anoo e hanga tooku nei
whare
I shall fashion my own house
E raka te mauii
E raka te katau
A community can use all the
skills of its people
Goal 7
Expand the Evidence about
Rates, Causes and
Effective Interventions
Danielle Oakes
Raukura Hauora o Tainui
Papakura
Whaia e koe ki te iti
kahurangi; ki te tuohu koe,
me he
maunga teitei.
(Pursue excellence - should you
stumble let it be to a lofty
mountain)
REDUCED SUICIDE RATES
&
WHANAU ORA
GOAL 7: Expand the evidence
about rates, causes and effective
interventions
Expanded research base:
In particular causes of suicidal
behaviour and effective
interventions for Maori / tangata
whenua
Improved quality and
timeliness of suicide data
International
&
National
Timely
statistical
information
Iwi
Evaluate
new
initiatives
Improved dissemination of
research and information
Hapu
Maori
suicide
research
Marae
Analyse
existing
databases
Community
Evaluations
Whanau
Research
dissemination
approaches
IASG
Whakatauki
Korihi te manu
Takiri mai i te ata
Ka ao, ka ao, ka awatea
Tihei , Mauri Ora
The bird sings
The morning has dawned
The day has broken
Behold there is Life!