This is a Ministry for Children initiative with a particular focus on mātauranga Māori parenting knowing it alligns with secure attachment and positive brain development. I am a national partner for Tākai where I write articles, create interactive resources, social content and an a child wellbeing advisor.

Manahau is a school-based resource with a focus on kaupapa Māori apporaches to whole-school wellbeing.  Here I work alongside my colleagues and buddies Aaron Hāpuku and Meg Fisher designing classroom activities and resources that support tamariki and kaiako to feel good and function well. 

Contracting to the Canterbury DHB/Te Whatu Ora, I worked as the Sparklers project lead for its first seven years. 

I am really proud to have written Sparklers' predominant content as it still stands, and while under my strategic direction it was utilised by 86% of Aotearoa Primary Schools. 

Working alongside the writers of a news segment for tamariki, TVNZ's 'News 2 Me.' I had the truly lovely role of working across the 'explainer' segment of this show, advising the writing team on all things tamariki wellbeing and other psychological concepts.

I am the director of Real Parents. We have a dynamic reputation as great parent supports, a website of family adventures and popular fortnightly podcast supported by Plains FM. I work across the team as a trainer, coach, presenter and write all of Real Parents content. We are all about supporting nurturing relationships between parents and tamariki, but also 'keeping it real'!

This is an incredible team of wellbeing specialists led by Drs Lucy Hone and Denise Quinlan. I'm lucky enough to be a wellbeing trainer for NZIWR across schools and workplaces, and more recently I've been supporting the Coping With Loss kaupapa developing resources.  

My work across the post earthquake All Right? campaign in Ōtautahi lasted 8 years morphing into the national campaign 'Getting Through Together' during covid's onset.  Anything pertaining to whānau and tamariki was a lovely part of my brief where I wrote and supported the design of all whānau, school and tamariki content, including All Right? and Getting Through Together resources. Sparklers was developed from this initiative. 

Kākano is a fun parenting app created by Te Whatu Ora and Auckland University Department of Psychological Medicine, funded through Cure Kids. 

Contracting to this project I co-designed and wrote  the content alongside whānau so they (and more even more whānau) could join their tamariki in a  journey - choosing goals, collecting NZ native animals and working together on emotional regulation and family connection. 

Research from this project has been published here.