Hikitia Te Tai Tokerau

07/09/2026

Nau mai, Hara mai!

Hīkoi ki Kāeo! 👣🥁
Join us for a hīkoi as we celebrate Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori 2026 with waiata, kōrero, and a chance to practice your reo.
📅 Tūrei 15 Hepetema 2026
🕦 11:30am
📍 Whangaroa Memorial Hall, Kāeo
After the hīkoi we'll share kai, enjoy mahi toi and spend time together.
Bring along a piece of kākahu, or fabric, to print your favourite kupu or kīanga Māori!
Give our reo a go, be part of the fun; nau mai, e te iwi 💚
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Hīkoi ki Kāeo! 👣🥁

Join us for a hīkoi as we celebrate Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori 2026 with waiata, kōrero, and plenty of reo.

📅 Tūrei 15 Hepetema 2026
🕦 11:30am
📍 Whangaroa Memorial Hall, Kāeo

After the hīkoi we'll share kai, enjoy mahi toi and spend time together.

Bring along a piece of kākahu, or fabric, to print your favourite kupu or kīanga Māori!

Give our reo a go, be part of the fun; nau mai, e te iwi 💚

05/09/2026

This Father’s Day we’re sending a mihi to Hikitia! Tāne Ora and the awesome tāne who put their love into words this Father’s Day - for their tamariki and the men who’ve shaped them. ❤️

This is how we change the narrative. Speaking love. Showing love. Making it normal for our tāne to say the things that matter.

Because prevention is also about what we grow more of — strong relationships, open aroha and better examples for our tamariki.

Hari Rā Pāpā. Happy Father’s Day.

Head on over to Hikitia! Tāne Ora social media pages to see the full letters.

03/09/2026

Prevention gets stronger when we learn from each other.

This week our Hikitia! whānau have been in Pōneke for the TOAH-NNEST Conference, alongside people from across the motu working towards the same thing - preventing violence before it happens.

We had the opportunity to be part of a panel kōrero on primary prevention in communities and what we’re learning through our collective impact approach. Every chair in the room was taken, with people sitting on the floor to listen and be part of the kōrero - a pretty strong reminder of just how much appetite there is to talk about prevention and what it can look like when communities are trusted to lead.

The value of being alongside the other Hikitia! sites, sharing what’s emerging in different rohe, what we’re learning, and where we can keep learning from each other is untold.

A mihi too to our partners at ACC New Zealand for backing this kaupapa and creating space for communities to lead, learn and try things differently.

Lots to take home to Te Tai Tokerau, and plenty more kōrero to come.

Ngā mihi nui TOAH-NNEST for having us.

30/08/2026

We are sending big awhi to our Hikitia! whānau in Te Tauihu who’ve been working towards this amazing kaupapa, Ordinary Wonders.

Pop on over to the RISE page to learn more about this Kaupapa and their journey of prevention and systems change.

24/08/2026

Still coming down from the Changemakers kaupapa in Te Tai Tokerau last week 💜

Prevention is upstream work. It’s shifting the conditions that allow harm to occur - and strengthening the ones that enable whānau and communities to thrive.

That takes relationships, shared learning and collective action. Working with communities, not on them, and recognising the knowledge and leadership already there.
That’s systems change in practice. And it’s powerful mahi to be part of.

21/08/2026

There’s something powerful about being in a room full of people who care deeply about their communities - and are prepared to do the mahi together.

We’ve just wrapped up the Changemakers kaupapa in Taipa alongside the Changemakers and Hikitia! Tāne Ora whānau and it’s been a privilege to share space with whānau from across Te Tai Tokerau and Aotearoa. To listen, learn, challenge our thinking and strengthen the relationships that sit underneath real, lasting change.

For us at Hikitia, this is what movement and ecosystem building looks like. Not one organisation holding the answers, but communities connecting their knowledge, influence and collective strength around a shared ambition - preventing harm before it happens and creating the conditions for whānau to thrive.

He kaupapa nui, he tāngata tonu. And plenty more to come.

20/08/2026

Nau mai, haere mai ki Te Tai Tokerau!

Systems change moves through relationships. Through knowing our people, understanding place, sharing what we’re learning and building the trust needed to move together.

This week we’ve had the privilege of welcoming our Hikitia! Tāne Ora whānau from Tairāwhiti and Desiree from Hikitia! Ōtepōti to Te Tai Tokerau - connecting, activating and learning alongside one another, while sharing some of the whenua, whakapapa and pūrākau that shape Te Tai Tokerau and our approach to prevention.

Different rohe. Shared kaupapa. Stronger through connection!

This is how we build the conditions for change - together.

14/08/2026

E Tū Rangatahi 🫶🏽

A great day supporting E Tū Rangatahi - a kaupapa led by Far North District Council and the Ministry of Education, giving taitamariki across the Far North the opportunity to develop and pitch solutions to issues that matter to them.
Hikitia! Te Tai Tokerau stood alongside Healthy Families Far North and other local innovators, coaching and tautoko as rangatahi turned their whakaaro into practical ideas.
And there were some good ones - supporting the move from home to university, getting more young people involved in voting and local decisions, restoring our moana by addressing kina barrens, and reducing drug-related harm.
A special mihi to the rangatahi rōpū from Te Hiku Hauora/Kaitaia College, who developed an impressive prototype to support young people to stop va**ng.
When taitamariki are given the space to lead, their whakaaro speak for themselves. 🙌

13/08/2026

Nau mai, haere mai! Another epic kōrero with Whaea Deb from Brainwave Trust Aotearoa on 18 August. Whaea Deb's kōrero will share the brain science and matauranga Māori during this important time of brain development of our taitamariki. Don't forget to register!

05/08/2026

💭 I wonder...

What if the best data doesn't always come from a spreadsheet?

Sometimes it starts with a question. A sticky note. A conversation. A whakaaro someone finally feels safe enough to share.

At Hikitia! Te Tai Tokerau, we're always exploring new ways to capture insight, reflect on what we're learning, and understand what's really changing beneath the surface. Because systems change isn't just measured in numbers - it's measured in patterns, stories, relationships and the questions we're brave enough to ask.

Sometimes, the most powerful data begins with two simple words:

“I wonder..."