Te Huringa ō te Ao Whānau Voice (2025)
Te Huringa ō te Ao Whānau Voices Project is a shift in how we listen, how we design, and how we honour whānau voices. The research is led by Point and guided by a Kaitiaki Steering Group. It uses a kaupapa Māori-informed, trauma-aware approach to uplift tāne, whānau, and community voice - exploring aspirations, service needs, and opportunities for culturally grounded, whānau-centred change on Waiheke Island
Growing Collective Wellbeing in Whanganui: A Community-Led Response to Toxic Stress (2025)
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.
User testing nau-mai.nz (2025)
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.
Ford Foundation Strategy Visualisation
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.
Anglican Trust for Women and Children Evaluation (2024)
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.
Kōhine Toa (2024)
A developmental evaluation to support intensive & individualised support, coaching and mentoring for kōhine toa in Tamaki Makaurau
Student, whānau and parent insights for the Literacy & Communication and Maths Strategy (2023)
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.
Rheumatic Fever Co-Design: Samoa Team (2022 - 2024)
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.
ABCpro Pilot Evaluation (2020 - 2022)
Point assisted the Breast Cancer Foundation New Zealand to evaluate the ABCpro digital telehealth nurse service for advanced breast cancer (ABC) patients.
The experience of Takatāpui and Rainbow rangatahi in care (2022)
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.
Voices of tamariki and rangatahi in care: Ombudsman research (2020 - 2021)
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.
Bridge to Employment (2017 - 2019)
Working together, Johnson & Johnson, secondary and postsecondary schools, and community organizations develop programs that feature academic enrichment, career readiness and exploration activities, and higher education preparation.
Connecting communities and education (2010 - 2020)
CEC was a 10-year, multi site initiative of the JR McKenzie Trust for which Point provided evaluation support and guidance.
Showing Impact: a Toolkit for Auckland local board-funded groups (2019)
This step-by-step social impact measurement process helps Auckland local board-funded groups to: create a simple social impact (contribution) statement; create a simple plan to help assess impact; Understand what basic data needs to be collected, and the tools to collect it; and report on the changes and learn and make adapt in response to feedback.
Hei Māreikura, Hei Mauriora (MPHS Community) (2017-2019)
This evaluation captured the impact of a community-based coaching initiative that empowers vulnerable women.
Patient Experience: What Matters Most
Since 2011 Point has collaborated with DHB’s and private providers to capture the areas of patient experience most important to patients and their whānau and families.
Understanding the experiences of new migrant parents (2018)
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.
Young people’s experience of communication within youth justice in Aotearoa New Zealand (2017)
Thirteen young people who have experience with the youth justice system in New Zealand were interviewed in July and August 2017. This report shares these young peoples’ experiences of communication, and voices their ideas about the youth justice workforce.
“This is Our Story” Evaluation of the Ranui 135 youth agency (2016)
West Auckland-based youth agency Ranui 135 coordinates services and activities, including mentoring, leadership camps, weekly sports activities, career planning, employment pathways and a new social media project which upskills young people in event planning and management.