1. Presented By Harry Tam, Julia Carr
Youth Violence: Cutting to the Core
Brisbane 2015
Mobilising Hard to Reach Maori Communities

2. mobilising hard to reach maori communities
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3. What is hard to reach?
H2R is a process of social exclusion by policy intent…
…because no one is hard to reach if we really want to reach them.
It depends on whether we intend to reach them and whether we are prepared to.
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4. why use the h2r definition?
The H2R definition challenges the
people with the power
to reach rather than to marginalise

5. Why use the h2r definition?
Reaching H2R communities is premised on
the need to penetrate and to engage with marginalised communities

6. Why use the h2r definition?
Engagement is an ongoing participatory process
that enables the active participation of H2R communities to design, develop and deliver
services and initiatives for themselves.

7. Who are h2r?

8. Who are h2r?
People who are marginalised because of their affiliations to particular groups and sub cultures:
gang members
drug users
criminal offenders

9. Who are h2r?

10. Who are h2r?
H2R can be a two way process where certain people or communities don’t want be reached because of their involvement in crime or drugs.
Consequently, they avoid authorities like Child Youth & Family Services etc.

11. community mobilisation
is a process that is often used in the delivery of public health initiatives particularly to address complex epidemics such as HIV/Aids

12. community mobilisation
“ … is a process through which local individuals, groups and organisations identify needs and plan, carry out and evaluate activities on a participatory and on-going basis to improve their lives”.
Reviewing Community Mobilisation and HIV/AIDS: What works? What next? (2005), Josh Levene and Alexandra Maclean, International HIV/AIDS

13. h2r community mobilisation
is premised on the notion that communities will change because they want to change
The challenge:
How do we encourage and support H2R communities to change?

14. does mobilising h2r communities work?
Too early to know conclusively, however, there is some evidence of this approach working:
He Pūrongo Arotake:
Hard to Reach Youth (CART), 2008
Evaluation Report: Hard to Reach Youth (CART)
He Pūrongo Arotake 2:
Hard to Reach Youth (CART), 2009
Evaluation Report 2: Hard to Reach Youth (CART)

15. WORKING WITH H2R COMMUNITIES IN MURUPARA
A CASE STUDY
WORKING WITH H2R COMMUNITIES IN MURUPARA

16. Murupara: “lost paradise”
Former forestry centre
Significant population decline
90% of population Māori
27% unemployment
31% under 15 years old
54% have formal qualification
46% sole parent families
Tribesmen dominated until 2007 when Mongrel Mob established a chapter

17. Tribesmen Motorcycle Club
The two gangs
Mongrel Mob
Tribesmen Motorcycle Club

18. Gang incidents Tensions between rival gangs
Hell in the heartland
Gang war led to Murupara death, court told
Brother saw Jordan trip then ‘run down’
Murupara cursed by gang violence - Judge
Tensions between rival gangs
Two young people die as result of gang violence
March for Life – condemning gang rivalry

19. Minister of Māori Affairs, Dr Pita Sharples
Gang mediation
Minister of Māori affairs directs Te Puni Kōkiri to mediate
Mediation and follow up meetings prevents further violence
Change of affiliation by resident identified as source of tension
Mediation team meets with wider community
Desire to stop harm and address unwanted behaviours
Common ground sought by wider community rather than division
Minister of Māori Affairs, Dr Pita Sharples

20. Te Hā o te Ora Umbrella group
Strategic plan implemented to strengthen Māori identity in whole community, culture of education and work with gangs on kaupapa of reconciliation common values
Gangs implement health hui and driver’s licensing
Health hui
Driver’s licensing

21. Initial outcomes One year on, the situation had stabilised
Māori designed, developed and delivered initiatives implemented to improve community safety
Leadership wananga
Family activities
Leadership wananga
Health checks

22. Statistics & Results Greater than average crime reduction in Murupara
22% reduction of recorded offences (per 10,000) in 2009/10 & 2012/13, with 18% reduction in 2011/12
Compared to neighbouring Rotorua police area, 16% reduction (2009/ /13), with 7% reduction 2011/12
Contrast similar districts’ (EBOP and Tairāwhiti) increase over the same periods, 12% and 2% respectively
New Zealand overall, 19% reduction in 2009/ /13, with 8% in 2011/12

23. Implications Implications
During period of engagement Murupara achieved higher than average crime reduction
Mobilisation delivered outcomes and created new hope
Working with youth in the context of whanau (extended family) and community
Working differently: long term, community directed, mobilising culture of hope

24. Waka Moemoea – Being the Change Trust
The Waka Moemoea – Being the Change Trust was established in 2012 at the direction of the then Minister of Maori Affairs, Dr Pita Sharples.
The Trust employs H2R community leaders to work with Mongrel Mob and Black Power communities in the Far North/Auckland, Hawkes Bay, Wellington/Hutt Valley and Christchurch areas.

25. Reference list
Carr J, Tam H. Changing the lens – positive developments from New Zealand. The Chronicle. International Assoc of Youth and Family Judges and Magistrates
Roguski, M. (2009). He Pūrongo Arotake 2: Hard to Reach Youth. Evaluation Report 2: Hard to Reach Youth (CART). Te Puni Kokiri: Wellington. New Zealand.
Spee, K. (2008). He Pūrongo Arotake: Hard to Reach Youth. Te Puni Kokiri Evaluation Report: Hard to Reach Youth (CART) – Te Puni Kokiri Wellington New Zealand.