We worked with Whau Local Board and a rangatahi co-design team to listen to young people across the Whau about their experiences, aspirations, and hopes for the future. The research highlights the importance of safe places to belong, affordable and accessible opportunities, support for the future, and genuine youth voice in local decision-making. A big mihi to the rangatahi and community stakeholders who shared their insights and helped shape this work.

After a few years behind the scenes, our work with the Ombudsman on how tamariki and rangatahi in care raise concerns is finally out in the open.

Listening matters. What you do with it matters more.

Many whānau step into caregiving unexpectedly, navigating complex systems with limited support. In Whanganui, Woven Whānau walks alongside grandparents raising mokopuna, parents, and whānau of tamariki with additional needs, creating pathways from isolation to belonging. In 2026, we're working with Woven Whānau to harvest outcomes and build a Theory of Change, grounded in the voices of whānau, staff, and community. It's community-led mahi that deserves to be seen.

When health gets in the way of learning, ākonga still deserve the chance to flourish. Te Kura Whaiora ki te Tonga / Southern Health School supports around 700 young people across the South Island each year- meeting them where they are and walking alongside them and their whānau. Our evaluation is helping make that work visible, so it can keep growing.

Mission Grocer is reimagining food security in central Auckland - and our role was to walk alongside the Mission Grocer team as an independent research and evaluation partner. Through interviews with staff, volunteers, partners and stakeholders, alongside customer feedback, we helped the team pause, reflect and make sense of what had been learned during the first nine months of operation.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

This research was commissioned by the Ombudsman to provide key insights into the design of new communications channels and content to support and facilitate the Children in Care complaints process.

This evaluation captured the impact of a community-based coaching initiative that empowers vulnerable women.

This project considered how systems might be improved to remove barriers which stop young parents from achieving their ultimate goal to give their children a better life.

This research, funded by the New Zealand Lotteries Research Fund, aims to better understand the parenting practices of new migrants in Auckland’s North Shore communities.