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Te Huringa ō te Ao Whānau Voices Project is a shift in how we listen, how we design, and how we honour whānau voices. The research is led by Point and guided by a Kaitiaki Steering Group. It uses a kaupapa Māori-informed, trauma-aware approach to uplift tāne, whānau, and community voice - exploring aspirations, service needs, and opportunities for culturally grounded, whānau-centred change on Waiheke Island

Since 2014, Point & Associates has supported TYMS to grow its impact. In 2025, we are helping embed evaluation and reflective practice into their FASD initiative - turning their inspirational mahi into powerful learning and insight.

Since 2019, Point & Associates has supported the Champions Initiative as its evaluation partner co-designing a multi-year strategy, leading Social Return on Investment studies, and helping shape a model that’s as impactful as it is inspiring.

Y-North is redefining how impact is measured across its services, shifting from output tracking to outcome-driven insights that reflect real change in the lives of its members. Through a collaborative, light-touch approach grounded in Vision 2030, the Y is building tools that empower staff, engage communities, and make social impact visible and actionable.

Eighteen months into a shift from event-based funding to grassroots activation, the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board is reviewing how well its community development model is fostering local leadership, inclusion, and connection.

Youth voice groups play a vital role in shaping local decision-making and civic engagement. This project helps ensure that their contributions are recognised, supported, and amplified - so that rangatahi across Tāmaki Makaurau can continue to lead, influence, and thrive.

Annalise Myers is conducting a series of in-depth interviews with programme participants who work with LEAD, an organisation which supports conservation and climate change organisations across Aotearoa through tailored capacity-building initiatives.

Toxic stress affects too many tamariki - but even removing one stressor can make a big difference. In Whanganui, the Growing Collective Wellbeing Project is helping whānau build resilience, together.

The Mana Whānau evaluation is capturing how intensive, in-home parenting support is helping keep tamariki safely with their whānau. Through hui, interviews, and shared learning, the process is surfacing what works - and what matters most.

The Auckland Writers Festival’s Hōtaka Kura programme was evaluated to understand its impact on literacy, creativity, and student wellbeing. With thousands of tamariki and rangatahi attending each year, the findings show how storytelling can inspire, connect, and transform.

The Christchurch Youth Hub is co-developing a youth-friendly evaluation framework that centres rangatahi voice, trauma-informed practice, and collaborative service mapping. It’s a model for how youth services can measure what truly matters. 

The Ombudsman’s nau-mai.nz website - a digital resource designed to help care-experienced children and young people understand their rights and navigate the Oranga Tamariki complaints process - was tested by care-experienced rangatahi and their trusted adults to ensure it was clear, safe, and empowering.

Rangatahi in Maungakiekie-Tāmaki and Puketāpapa shared what helps them thrive - and what’s missing. A new asset mapping and needs assessment highlights youth-led solutions, safe spaces, and creative pathways for change

The ECVP Programme supported ethnic communities across Aotearoa to prevent family and sexual violence. Researchers spoke with over 200 people from 17 communities in 20+ languages, using interviews, focus groups, surveys, and site visits to evaluate impact.

With 100 bookshelves delivered to ECE centres in 2024, the Little Libraries project is lifting the status of reading for tamariki and whānau. This evaluation shows more reading, more engagement, and more joy - one book at a time.

This collaborative research with WaiRangahau and GravitasOPG explored how elder abuse is understood across diverse ethnic communities in Aotearoa, highlighting cultural perspectives, systemic barriers, and opportunities to shape more responsive, culturally grounded prevention strategies.

The Hurihanga Initiative is a whānau-led response to intergenerational harm in gang-connected communities, and was evaluated using developmental, kaupapa Māori-informed methods that prioritised reflective practice, relational insight, and whānau voice.

This “Amazing Race” style community-led research project found that the Rānui community hope for a safe, family-friendly environment, more parks, events, and improved emergency preparedness

In 2024, ATWC partnered with Point & Associates to evaluate its Granger Grove residential programme - supporting mothers and tamariki through complex transitions. Through interviews, literature reviews, and thematic analysis, the project surfaced powerful insights into trauma-informed care, parenting, and systemic change. The final report will help shape a stronger, more sustainable programme for wāhine and their whānau.

A developmental evaluation to support intensive & individualised support, coaching and mentoring for kōhine toa in Tamaki Makaurau

In recounting their positive experiences with literacy & communication and maths, students, whānau and parents helped to provide some clarity around what learning looks and feels like when it’s successful, the role of whānau and parents in contributing to this success, and what indicators show it’s working.

This evaluation aims to assess the difference arts and culture programming makes in Aotearoa prisons.

This Rheumatic Fever co-design initiative was facilitated by a team who held Samoan cultural and social capital as well as extensive professional skills and expertise. Point was lucky enough to be invited along for the ride.

Point assisted the Breast Cancer Foundation New Zealand to evaluate the ABCpro digital telehealth nurse service for advanced breast cancer (ABC) patients.

Point and Associates evaluated the Writers in Schools programme drawing on feedback from students, authors and illustrators and school staff including teachers, librarians and principals.