In June 2024, 60 community innovators from 17 community organisations leading health promotion projects that support whānau wellbeing across Aotearoa came together with the Te Whatu Ora Health Promotion Early Years team to wānanga. The wānanga created an opportunity to articulate how the system might better support māmā, pēpi and whānau in the early years.
This report captures key insights from community leaders on how we can meet the needs of whānau. This work demonstrates that when government trusts community to design their own solutions, we can address issues that the system has struggled to solve. The reports details insights about what makes community-led innovations successful, and what the enablers and barriers are.