Te Tai Tikanga Māori Team

Ko wai mātou - About Te Tai Tikanga Māori

In 2018, APM established their first kaupapa Māori team, Ngā Pou Arahi o APM, to guide and support the Māori cultural capability within APM.

As a human services organisation, APM understands the importance of being a good and responsible partner under Te Tiriti o Waitangi and providing whānau with culturally integrated and supportive services.

In 2021, the team expanded to include a National Manager Māori, Cultural Clinical Advisor and two Cultural Advisors and was renamed ‘Te Tai Tikanga Māori’ which speaks to the direction within APM where Māori guidance and support can be found.

In 2022, Te Tai Tikanga Māori grew to include ‘Ngā Kaihāpai o APM’ to ensure a local presence of Te Tai Tikanga Māori within each region, and to provide Māori kaimahi with professional development opportunities to further their own cultural knowledge.

Te Tai Tikanga Māori are supported to continuously review and improve our services to Māori, provide quality education to our teams, build genuine relationships with Iwi Māori and contribute meaningfully within hāpori Māori.

Tēnei mātou tū ngātahi, hei hāpai, hei tautoko, a whānau, a wairua, a manaaki nei.

Te ara motuhake ngā wawata, hei tautokona te ora, o ngā iwi katoa.

Te Tai Tikanga Māori – Strategic team

Kapitorina Hall

Cultural Relationship Lead

(Ngā Puhi, Tuwharetoa, Ngāti Rangi, Tamahaki, Te Ātihaunui-a-Pāpārangi, Kai Tahu, Ngāti Pakeha)

Ngā Kaihāpai

APM NZ tohu

In 2022, APM commissioned Māori artist, Maihi Potaka (Ngāti Hauiti, Ngāti Manawa, Te Ātihaunui-a-Pāpārangi) to create a tohu to represent APM NZ.

Te Tiriti o Waitangi, pro-equity, anti-racism

APM recognises He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Niu Tireni (Declaration of Independence of the united tribes of New Zealand) signed in 1835, which reaffirms Aotearoa as a sovereign nation under Tāngata Whenua.

APM affirms Te Tiriti o Waitangi 1840 as the founding document of Aotearoa New Zealand and supports the articles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi as a guide to improving the lives of Tāngata whenua, and Tāngata tiriti.

As a tangata tiriti organisation, we believe we have a responsibility to lead and support the way health and rehabilitation organisations understand, respond to and address racism and discrimination in all its forms.

We believe by actively working to uphold our obligations to tangata whenua, under Te Tiriti o Waitangi, we will also be able to pro-actively enable positive changes in health inequities.

We recognise the mana of whānau, hapū, and iwi and will work to nurturing authentic and reciprocal relationships.

We understand that racism is pervasive and believe that addressing health inequities also means addressing our own systemic and institutional barriers.

This includes, but is not limited to policies, procedures, approaches, attitudes, models of care, or service design as potential purveyors of racism, discrimination and inequity.

We are conscious, as a large service provider, of the important role we play in supporting, advocating, and creating space for the aspirations of Māori, Pasifika, Rainbow, Tangata Whaikaha-disability, Refugee and other underserved communities.