Nadine has been working with the Ford Foundation since June 2021 to visually represent the complex thinking behind the Foundation’s program strategies so they can be easily understood by a wide audience.

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.

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 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.

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.

This report, commissioned by the Oranga Tamariki Voices of Children and Young People's (VoCYP) team and led by Point and a community design team, centres on what takatāpui and rainbow care-experienced rangatahi want Oranga Tamariki to know about them and their experiences of care.

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.

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.