Focus Areas

At Point, our areas of focus reflect emerging priorities across Aotearoa - from early years and whānau wellbeing to youth resilience, inclusive communities, and creative expression. We design evaluation and measurement frameworks that reflect cultural values, support meaningful outcomes, and guide long-term impact.

  • Supporting early wellbeing and strong whānau foundations with measurable, outcomes-aligned interventions.
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  • Enabling youth resilience through evidence-informed evaluation and community strengths.
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  • Shaping paths to learning and work with impact-focused evaluation and real-world insight.
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  • Evaluation that improves wellbeing, rooted in data and lived experience.
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  • Measuring the lasting impact of safety initiatives and preventative interventions
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  • Understanding the needs and priorities of the communities that reflect the diversity of Aotearoa.
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  • Capturing cultural and creative outcomes
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  • Ensuring meaningful evaluation that respects identity, inclusion, and lived experience.
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  • Reading is an important protective factor and predictor of educational achievement and life outcomes. A multitude of studies show a strong association between reading, reading for pleasure, parental reading, and positive health, wellbeing, and social outcomes in children, including children and tamariki living in communities facing disadvantage and inequality.
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