November 30, 2022
Kaupapa Māori approach proven for crime prevention
The Minister for the Prevention of Family and Sexual Violence says addressing crime and violence can mean working with people where they are rather than tearing them away from their families and communities.
Marama Davidson says National’s boot camp plan and its attack on the Kahukura drug rehabilitation programme for gang members in Hawke’s Bay shows it isn’t interested in addressing the intergenerational harm behind much offending.
“The research is clear that the sustained, kaupapa Maori-led, whole of whanau and community-led approaches are the only way to interrupt inter-generational trauma and healing and reinstill inter-generational goodness for our people, especially when led by the very people and communities on the front line of this trauma,” she says.
Ms Davidson says the kaupapa Maori approach aims to get real accountability from the people closes to the harm, but there are no quick solutions.
She’s in Te Tairawhiti this week looking at marae and community based anti-violence programmes.