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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Point and partner Awa Associates describe in this evaluation how SafeMan SafeFamily helps men who have used violence become safe and understand how much of a difference SafeMan SafeFamily has made for the men, their families and whanau. A copy of the draft report is available.