June 03, 2014
Turia offers whanau ora to world
Whanau Ora Miniaster Tariana Turia says there is growing international interest in New Zealand’s innovative system of whole of family care.
Mrs Turia is in London for meetings and site visits with Government and the community representatives working in housing, inequality and family violence prevention.
She also spoke to police from around the world at the 2014 London Gangs Summit, a forum focused on reducing gang crime.
She says people were interested in the work being done through whanau ora, even if it challenged existing models.
"The groups we met with here didn’t think it would work because they only focus on women, they don’t focus on families, and they don’t work with perpetrators, whereas back at home we work with the whole whanau including people they call the perpetrators. I think what we’re doing at home is beginning to show the way forward for other countries and particularly those that have indigenous communities," Mrs Turia says.
This week Tariana Turia will represent New Zealand at the 2014 Global Summit of Women in Paris before going on to the United Nations in New York to deliver New Zealand’s national statement at the meeting of the Conference of States Parties, on the Convention of the Rights of People with Disabilities.
FOR THE FULL INTERVIEW WITH MINISTER TARIANA TURIA CLICK ON THE LINK
http://www.waateanews.com/play_podcast?podlink=MTg3NTU=
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