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 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.

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.

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.

Policies for children need to be accessible to children. One of our Point families, the DubP whanau, believes this so strongly that they redesigned the Scouts Child Safeguarding Policy, which is now being shared with every Scouts group in Aotearoa.

Annalise Myers and Kelly Maung worked with Belong Aotearoa to understand how they have positively impacted the wellbeing of refugee and migrant women and their families.

The arts enable us to thrive. A vibrant arts, culture, and creative sector is a vital part of community. An investment in the arts, culture, and creativity is an investment in our wellbeing. This report helps us to better understand the extent and impact of income and housing insecurity, and the level of interest in artists’ community housing and the Universal Basic Income (UBI).

The Caring for children and tamariki with family and whānau care packs programme was informed by and followed on from the Storytime Foundation Lockdown care packs projects. These evaluations explain the underpinning evidence and the strategies used with the care pack projects, and provide a window into the perspectives of whānau, children, probation officers and police.

Read the latest reports from the Peter McKenzie Project to understand how the project is making a difference to whānau wellbeing, how it is impacting the causes of poverty by supporting upstream systems change work and how it has adopted a participatory model of philanthropy

In this report, Alex Woodley reports on how child-centric prison visiting has deepened whānau connections in a positive way, decreased stress for children, and created the conditions to improve educational and wellbeing outcomes.

The purpose of this report was to evaluate the Tupu Tai Pasifika Internship Programme to gauge the current status of the programme, its ability to inform future programme design, and necessary changes needed to continue to promote greater diversity in the policy space.

Scouts Aotearoa want to better understand the benefits and impacts of the scouting movement. Point has worked with Scouts Aotearoa to develop ongoing evaluation framework enabling them to monitor progress, create a culture of continuous improvement and measure outcomes and impacts.

Restorative justice is an opportunity for people who have been harmed, and those responsible for the harm, to come together talk about what happened and why, how they have been harmed. Point is working with Project Restore to evaluate their restorative justice model.

Reading for pleasure is one of the most important indicators for the future success of a child, improving literacy, learning, health and wellbeing and social outcomes. This report helps to understand the conditions that could help grow communities of readers, how to make books and reading for pleasure more accessible and how reading projects might be sustained.

Point undertook a needs analysis to help Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau and the Crown (the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development better understand how this heritage site could be given a new lease of life as a cultural heritage, community arts, creative and well-being hub while it is vacant, and its longer-term future is decided.

There are enormous personal, whānau, community and societal benefits in supporting tamariki to stay in the care of their families. This evaluation found that, if implemented with fidelity to the principles, approach and key components, Mana Whānau provides a safe and successful alternative to foster care.

Point supported The Southern Initiative to explore how early experiences shape lifelong outcomes for tamariki in South Auckland. Through data, co-design, and whānau-led insights, the project aimed to shift systems to better support families in those critical first 1000 days

This report provides some early evaluative findings of the prison extension to Storytime and the emergence of the Early Reading Together® Programme.