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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

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TYMS Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Project (2025)

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.

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Mana Whānau Evaluation (2025)

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.

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Little Libraries (2025)

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.

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Hurihanga Initiative Evaluation

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.

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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.

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Storytime Foundation care packs (2022)

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.

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TSI First 1000 Days Early Years Project

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

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