Experience

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  Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP)

  • New Zealand

  • Policy Officer

    • Oct 2023 - Present
    • New Zealand

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  Whānau Wisdoms

  • New Zealand

  • Director

    • Apr 2021 - Present
    • New Zealand

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  Te Poho Collective

  • Aotearoa

  • Founder

    • May 2020 - Present
    • Aotearoa

    Te Poho Collective is a digital wellbeing platform humbly brought to you by a crew of aunties and big sistars from Aotearoa. Our kaupapa is whanaungatanga and manaakitanga. We here to tautoko and be the big sisters and aunties for anyone who needs it. In the 'Aunty Lounge' we kōrero, wānanga and tautoko each other. We also offer free movement, fitness, and self-love programmes covering oranga tinana, oranga wairua, oranga hinengaro and oranga whānau. Check us out https://www.tepoho.org/

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  Mind Space

  • Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

  • Founder

    • Jul 2012 - Nov 2023
    • Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

    Mind Space is a peer support group is designed to support and empower students dealing with another's mental illness or addiction in an anonymous and safe space.

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  Mahitahi Trust

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Researcher

    • Jan 2021 - Jul 2023
    • Auckland, New Zealand

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  Ember Korowai Takitini

  • New Zealand
  • Mental Health Care
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • User Experience Designer

    • Oct 2019 - Aug 2020

  • Quality and Innovation Shinobi

    • Mar 2018 - Aug 2020

    This role is intersectional, influential and systems focused. This is perfect, as I see the world as a big messy web of interconnected systems that are inseparable from each other, and shape our day to day and life outcomes. When a bit of the web moves the whole network feels it, and I am curious about which bits of the web we can rework or evolve to do the best mahi we can. In brief, the role exists to ensure consistent quality assurance support.I am focusing on a few key areasInternal audits Policy reviewsWhānau EngagementBest Practice SystemsTrainingService User Engagement DevelopmentYouth representation

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  Auckland DHB

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Mental Health and Addiction Programme Board Member

    • Feb 2017 - Aug 2020
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    Providing leadership and accountability for the development andmonitoring of mental health and addictions services expertise to the MentalHealth and Addictions Advisory Board at the Auckland District Health Board.

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  Changing Minds

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Chairperson

    • Jul 2018 - Dec 2019
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    Interim Position Stepped down from board role to work on the Rakau Roroa online training development

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  Connect: Supporting Recovery Inc

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Innovation Consultant - Seeker

    • Sep 2017 - Mar 2018
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    Revised Ember's youth resilience programme Mindsets. 6 x 1 hour Resilience sessions for year 12/13 NCEA students. 20 Programmes delivered across Auckland in 1-4 decile high schools. Led an organisational inquiry into whānau engagement practice and created strategy to increase staff confidence delivering whānau support.

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  Supporting Families in Mental Illness

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Research and Development Consultant

    • Jan 2017 - Jul 2017
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    Workforce development project for adult mental health and addiction services. Designed and facilitated customised training to increase staff confidence in whānau focused best practice, specifically related to Supporting Parents, Healthy Children.

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  Supporting Families in Mental Illness Taranaki

  • Taranaki, New Zealand

  • Project Lead Supporting Parents Healthy Children

    • Aug 2015 - Jan 2017
    • Taranaki, New Zealand

    Peer Support service design, coordination, and delivery for 10-18 year olds who have parents that experience mental distress or addiction. This role involved community wide whānau mental health promotion and workforce training delivery for DHB, NGOS and MOE services. I am proud of this work. It pulled all parts of the community together to create a service that worked for young people and their whānau. We explored, listened, and researched together to design, deliver, and evaluate best practice. Close to my heart, we create a support system that gives young people and their whānau a platform to share their experiences and access supports they hope for.

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  Taranaki District Health Board

  • Taranaki, Wanganui & Manawatu, New Zealand

  • Taranaki District Health Board Supporting Parents Healthy Children Steering Group member

    • Jun 2015 - Nov 2016
    • Taranaki, Wanganui & Manawatu, New Zealand

    The collective is accountable for the strategic implementation plan for SPHC within TDHB ad NGO services.

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  Housing New Zealand Corporation

  • Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

  • Strategic Research and Evaluation Intern

    • Mar 2014 - Dec 2014
    • Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

    With guidance from Anthropologist Dr Patricia Laing, I led an ethnographic research project using data from the HNZC's Housing Pathways Longitudinal Study. Using discourse and thematic analysis I looked for lived experience patterns, and found shared trends of single mother's hopes and dreams for their futures. Sharing Dreams: Ethnographic inquiry into experiences and priorities of single mothers in state housing New Zealand

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  Victoria University of Wellington

  • New Zealand
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Tutor ANTH-209 – Conflict and Reconciliation

    • Feb 2014 - Jul 2014

  • Student experience assistant

    • Feb 2014 - Jul 2014

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  Victoria University of Wellington

  • Victoria University of Wellington

  • Tutor ANTH-102 – Social and Cultural Diversity

    • Jun 2013 - Oct 2013
    • Victoria University of Wellington