Noho mai ki taku taha, your story isn't over...
Mā te kōrero, ka mōhio, mā te mōhio, ka mārama, mā te mārama, ka mātau, mā te mātau, ka ora.
In April, we came together with Mataatua whānui at STAY – a suicide prevention and community action-based wānanga led by whānau, for whānau.
You shared your kōrero, your struggles, and your solutions for suicide prevention, intervention and postvention in our rohe.
The journey didn’t end there. We’ve carefully shaped your kōrero into findings that will help other whānau.
Te Puna Ora o Mātaatua (TPOOM) hosted the STAY wānanga on Friday, 11 April 2025, at Te Hau o Te Rangi Tutua Reserve, Whakātane.
The purpose of the wānanga was to create a safe space for our whānau to come together and share their experiences and solutions for suicide.
By listening and working alongside whānau, we hope to strengthen our communities’ response to adversity and support them towards collective flourishing.
Suicide is a serious area of concern for Aotearoa, constituting a significant threat to the health and well-being of all New Zealanders. Unfortunately, these concerns are heightened for Māori.
As of 2020, the rates of suicide for Māori men and Māori women were double that of their non-Māori counterparts. These disparities have remained consistent for the last ten years (Ministry of Health, 2024). While the causes for high rates of suicide among Māori are complex and layered, they are rooted in our settler-colonial history. Colonisation segregated Māori from our whenua, attacked our ways of knowing and being, depleted the Māori population through the introduction of various diseases, and fragmented Māori social structures.
Learn more about the STAY Community Feedback Suicide Wānanga in September
Express your interest in attending this wānanga, and download the full summary report of our findings at the link below.
