INVOLVE 2025: Kotahitanga - Weaving Cohesion in the Youth Development Sector. 7th August - Opening of the conference and opening keynotes Dr Claire Achmad, Matua Ruru Hona
INVOLVE 2025: Kotahitanga - Weaving Cohesion in the Youth Development Sector. 7th August panel on 'State of the Nation'. Day 1 - Panel - State of the Nation with Dr Claire Achmad Chief Children’s Commissioner, Josiah Tualamali'i, Arena Williams MP and Van
INVOLVE: Kotahitanga - Weaving Cohesion in the Youth Development Sector. 8th August opening keynote with Eru Kapa-Kingi and Riana Te Ngahue
INVOLVE 2025: Kotahitanga - Weaving Cohesion in the Youth Development Sector. 8th August with Chris Jansen
INVOLVE 2025: Kotahitanga. 7th August Panel - To age or not to age - That is not the question. The youth development sectors’ role in online safety with Terryann Clark University of Auckland, Lola Fisher Gen-Z Aotearoa, Kate Whitaker Classification Office,
INVOLVE 2025 Keynote: Intersectionality
Breakout Concurrent Session - Arts
Concurrent Breakout Session: Intersectionality
Multiple speakers on a joint topic. Topic: Systems change.
Climate Change Panel Discussion
Matekino Marshall, CEO of The Ngāti Tamaoho Trust, gives his opening address to the INVOLVE 2023 conference.
How to stay angry and hopeful - intergenerational reflections from the frontlines of change.
How to Youth Develop in an Election Year
Ramon Narayan is a keynote speaker at Involve 2023 where he gives the final keynote address of the conference. With his team of young people, Ramon talks ad reflects on the theme of this years conference supported by a series of spoken word performances fr
Research consistently identifies quality relationships with adults as a key driver of positive youth outcomes. However, few studies have explored how the communication strategies adult helpers such as youth workers and mentors use can either help or hinder
Did you know that 96% of old people are enrolled, and only 61% of young people are enrolled? Do these people represent your views? Do you want them to decide your future? How about the young people you work with? This year we'll all be voting in a national
ProjectSEARCH Canterbury is responding directly to the goals and aspirations of young people with intellectual and learning disabilities for paid employment. The programme directly encourages a collaborative, partnership approach to the transition from sch
Mana Taiohi are Aotearoa’s youth development principles, authored by the youth development sector. They provide the foundation for our mahi with young people in this nation. These are informed by young people, people who work with young people, Te Ao Māori
A snapshot from a panel of experts on gender, sexuality and general health for young people in Aotearoa.
Guled and Veena talk about the work they do with a group of third culture young people in the Wellington region. They speak to the experiences of former refugee and migrant communities coming to New Zealand and help the Involve audience better understand w
David Shanks is a keynote speaker at Involve 2020 where he helps us to think about his role and what it means to have a Chief Censor. He speaks more widely about the world of the Classification Office as it relates to young people. He mentions key topics o
Susan speaks about the health landscape at this moment in time, including the COVID-19 global pandemic. She gives insight into global statistics and trajectories when it comes to youth health and uses some of her most recent publications to draw these toge
Kaweti shares his story of being a young person who was mentored, and how he now uses this platform to support and mentor other young people in Northland. He brings a uniquely creative and hearty te ao Māori perspective.
This session explores the Core Competency 'Practices whai wāhitanga – creating space for youth participation'. This is informed by the Mana Taiohi principle of Whai Wāhitanga.
This session explores 'Youth workers are reflective practitioners, informed by rich and diverse mātauranga'. This competency is informed by the Mana Taiohi principle of Mātauranga.
In this session, Jane Zintl will explore the Core Competency 'Upholds and extends manaakitanga - caring for young people, ensuring their holistic safety'. This is connected to the Mana Taiohi principle of Manaakitanga.
This session will be exploring 'Works in a strengths based and mana enhancing (uplifting) way'. This Core Competency is informed by the Mana Taiohi principle Mana Manaakitanga.
Join Simon Mareko and a group of Pasifika men as they explore Hononga – Identifying And Strengthening Connectedness. This session includes reflections on past quality connections, methods for fostering quality connections and other pearls of wisdom.
This session explores prioritising whanaungatanga - the building of quality relationships. This is related to the Mana Taiohi principle of Whanaungatanga.
This session is on Core Competency 4 - Practices Te Tiriti-based partnerships. The related Mana Taiohi Principle is Whakapapa Te Ao.
This session explores Core Competency 2 and is hosted by Tane Keepa - Supports the development of identity. This relates to the Mauri Whakapapa Mana Taiohi principle.
John Harrington explores the third Core Competency in this session - Critically reflects on the context of youth work in Aotearoa. This is connected to the Whakapapa (of youth work) Mana Taiohi principle.
This is the first of ten webinars unpacking the Core Competencies of Youth Work in Aotearoa. In this first session, Fiona Beals discusses CC #1 - Understands the Context of Young People. The connected Mana Taiohi principle is Te Ao Taiohi Whakapapa Mauri.
Watch our webinar to hear Sam Pilisi explore how and why New Zealand-born Pacific youth serve their families, churches and communities.
‘Resilient Rangatahi’ leverages from mentoring experience of over two decades of mentoring rangatahi as well as delivering highly effective mentoring programmes for hundreds of mentors, parents, social workers, police, youth advocates etc...
This webinar will overview the importance of worker wellbeing, and consider ways organisations and individuals can foster workplace wellbeing and practice self-care to foster the resilience and energy essential for supporting others.
Dr Kelsey Deane explores tensions surrounding different conceptualisations of what is and what leads to positive youth development and wellbeing from three popular international perspectives: adolescent health, resilience and Positive Youth Development.
Donna and Emma kick-off the INVOVLE Webinar Series with their whakaaro on the Office of the Children’s Commissioner's Life in Lockdown Report.
3 workshops run by Youthline Wellington: 1) Self-care in Our Changed Environment, 2) How Youthline changed My Life, 3) Navigating Anxiety
We will hear from experts in the fields of youth participation, indigenous youth and digital youth work, as well as a panel discussion on the state of the youth sector with the CEOs and Directors of 5 peak bodies for youth work.
The core topics are:· Nailing the Foundations of Youth Work; Youth Participation & Empowerment; Practical Tools for Youth Work; Sustaining Yourself For the Long-Haul
This is a training for mentors wanting to develop their skill building quality relationships with taiohi. NZYMN is the national hub for youth mentoring in Aotearoa, offering support in a diverse range of circumstances where mentoring relationships operate.
Youth forensic services are specialist AOD services for young people with mental health disorders, AOD problems and/or intellectual disabilities (under the Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003 (IDCC&R Act)
Learning in Lockdown topics are: Learnings from the COVID crisis we can take into the future of youth work; Best practices for engaging young people online; Cultural competencies in youth work; Applying lessons of a successful drop-in to the online world.
John is an Internet Safety and Risk Assessment Consultant working with schools, the private sector and the health sector, providing specialist advice and direction on the safe and ethical use of Digital Communication Technology.
This presentation over views online tools Sparx, Aroha chat box and Quest Te Whitianga and how these can be used in practice with young people and whānau
This is a narrated PowerPoint presentation providing basic guidance on how to use telehealth systems for working with service users and their families. The presentation includes guidelines, ethics and boundaries, working with children and managing risk.
How we support whānau to understand: * That looking after themselves will support them looking after their children * The top parenting Go To's during Covid-19 * What kids need during Covid-19
This presentation provides people working with youth online with information on exploring and managing safety concerns such as suicidal ideation. Liesje also provides information on valuable resources supporting young people's wellbeing.
This presentation features childhood anxiety with a focus on recognition, assessment and intervention. Information is also shared on the experience of anxiety for children and parents in a COVID-19 environment.
Supporting Grief and Trauma in Children
This webinar discusses how the Choice and Partnership Approach can enable organisations and systems to become more trauma-informed when responding to community trauma and provide practitioners with a framework to support whānau experiencing trauma.
This presentation will overview the importance of worker wellbeing, and consider ways organisations and individuals can foster workplace wellbeing and practice self-care during this time of uncertainty.
1) Introduction; 2) The CAPA process; 3) Managing CAPA
This presentation and panel discussion focusses on the youth mental health findings from the Youth19 Rangatahi survey. The Youth19 Rangatahi Smart Survey (Youth19) is the latest in the Youth2000 series of health and wellbeing surveys.
This presentation provides guidance for workers when partnering with Māori and Pacifika whānau/families.
Foundations in ICAMH course provides foundational learning in infant, child and youth mental health and working with whānau. It aims to upskill workers in screening and brief intervention work with young people with AOD issues.
This talk discusses the whakapapa of the Ngātahi workforce development programme for practitioners working with children and families experiencing complex mental health, addictions and social issues, its development and impacts on practitioners and whānau
This session explores RSP ICAMH/AOD competency framework, giving an understanding of implementing the framework to enhance service delivery and professional development when implementing CAPA. An overview of Foundations in ICAMH training is also provided.
This presentation is on Supporting Parents Healthy Children implementation and how one of two specific interventions (Single Session Family Consultation and the 5-Step Method) ‘fit’ within a Choice and Partnership Approach (CAPA) service delivery.
This resource outlines treatment recommendations for youth with co-existing (mental health and substance use) problems (or CEP), and guides clinicians working with youth with CEP. It's written for primary care and specialist mental health and AOD services.
The e-module series includes: Childhood Trauma: Impact on Development and Behaviour; Trauma-informed Care for Caregivers; Trauma-informed Care for the Children's Workforce; Self-care in Trauma-informed Organisations.
Foundations in ICAMH explores infant, child, youth mental health and working with whānau. The 4 modules: Core Concepts/Infant Mental Health; Child Mental Health; Youth Mental Health; Supporting Infant Wellbeing, Children, Young People and Whānau.
This workshop explores the online porn landscape and NZ young people's consumption, behaviours and experiences of porn and the impacts on sexual attitudes, behaviours, health and wellbeing. Also discussed is porn literacy tools and NZ support services.
Session themes: 1) Introducing ambivalence, 2) A motivational approach, 3) Know your righting reflex, 4) Practice
This presentation focuses on key concepts underpinning attachment and includes a general overview of attachment, some information on assessment and on the impacts of attachment on development.
This presentation explores drivers of picky eating, Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, dynamics that maintain restricted eating pattern, barriers to changing patterns and strategies for encouraging children to experience new foods.
This session explores psychosis - What is psychosis, Psychosis experiences in children and adolescent, intervention, why does psychosis develop? Recovery and wellbeing following psychosis, early intervention for first episode psychosis
Understanding disordered eaitng and eating disorders; Thinking about eating - sorting out fact from fiction; Working with family/whānau; Treatment options
In this seminar Youth19 co-leaders Associate Professor Terryann Clark and Dr Terry Fleming will present initial findings from Youth19 to highlight new trends, challenges and opportunities for supporting young people.
If you want to know what causes young people to “lose their temper” become angry or violent, what the stages are that lead up to an angry outburst, and how to deescalate the situation as quickly as possible, you need to attend this workshop.
This workshop focussess on supporting staff to become diversity advocates within their organisations, creating gender inclusive, safe environments for all people. It provides a set of tools to take back and implement within participants' own organisations.
This workshop explores the importance of sleep and looks at some basic sleep hygiene and sleep difficulty interventions.
This workshop discusses research about suicide and provides tools to identify people who may be suicidal. Also covered: Sleep deprivation as a risk for suicide, childhood and inter-generational trauma, cluster effect, same day crisis and instant suicides.
This workshop will equip you with: An understanding adolescent brain development; Why HEEADSSSSS is an essential tool to use in youth health; Skills to conduct a HEEADSSSSS assessment.
Dr Sue Bagshaw shares insights on the developing brain of young people, Psychologist Simi Desor shares tools to support positive youth development in uncertain times and Dr. Annie Horton shares research relating to the wellbeing of young people today.
Our organisation offers a range of online course including: Fundamentals of Child Protection; Child Protection for Out-of-School Care Providers; Child Protection for Local Government Children’s Workers
This introduction or refresher level course covers: Cultural protocols in our programmes; Te Reo pronunciation tips; Why staff are required to do Treaty education? The Treaty in today’s context
This course introduces -Tahi: building social skills with te reoRua: greetings and farewells. Toru: asking and saying how you are. Wha: mihimihi pronunciationRima: karakia. Ono: vowel, consonants, diphthongs, and correct pronunciation of Māori words.
Topics covered• Drowning explained• The statistics• Incident management• Health & Safety• Dead water• Active supervision• Bystander rescue
This course will give you more confidence and ideas when working with physically disabled people. Topics covered: STEP model; Ways to include; Inclusion scenarios; Social v medical model; Communication and Terminology.
This is a two part workshop: Part one: Safer Sites Safer Children. Part two: Safer Excursions Safer Children. Topics include: Health & Safety law, duty of care, hazard & risk assesment, transporting young people, third party providers.
Topics covered (part 2)- How do we respond if we have a concern or there is a disclosure? How to document and report concerns. How the law guides and protects us.
This is a two-part webinar. Part one: What is child abuse? What are the signs or indicators? Part 2: How do we respond to a disclosure or if we are concerned? Documenting and reporting concerns. How the law guides and protects us.
This training covers: What the Children's Act 2014 states regarding safe recruitment of staff; Following steps to ensure staff are safe and suitable; What checks are needed and how to undertake these; Example questions for interviews and reference checks
This course covers meeting Food Act training and compliance requirements: Food safety essentials; Legal & ethical responsibilities; Safe food 'KEYS'; Legalities; Food control plans; Verification's & self review; Documentation & record keeping
Learn practical strategies for helping teens with ADHD to succeed in school. Topics covered: ADHD and changes in the teenage brain, medication, strategies for positive change, dealing with emotions, adjusting our expectations, allowing for independence
This talk focusses on understanding the stress response system in young people, recognising environments that activate the stress response system and the ongoing effects and positively effecting behaviour change and calm in young people
Based on actual experiences with young people who have been extremely excited, rowdy, defiant and inspiring, this workshop reframes how we respond to behaviours that challenge us, with a fundamentally strengths-based approach.
Topics module 1- What is autism?- A nonlinear spectrum- Executive functioning- Theory of Mind- Managing autism and anxiety. Topics module 2- Sensory difficulties – adjusting the environment to be autism friendly- Stimming- Meltdowns vs tantrums
Topics covered:• Managing asthma attacks, allergies and allergic reactions• Epi-pen use and management• Managing a seizure or partial seizure• The diabetic child• Choking• Treating bee-stings / insect bites• Head injuries, broken bones and bleeding
Topics covered (part 1):• Understanding what ADHD is and how it presents in the child – how the world works for these children• Support strategies for working with the ADHD child• Tailoring your environment to prevent the frustration and anxiety build up.
Psychological First Aid is a ‘best practice’ approach to providing emotional and practical support to anyone in distress.This webinar includes: What PFA is; Helping with the 5 elements relating to COVID-19; The Action Principles of LOOK, LISTEN, LINK.
This presentation describes research on international responses to COVID-19 for the care and protection of children and young people.
In this session we consider the complex interplay of biological and environmental processes which contribute to the emergence, progression and improvement of mental health issues in adolescence.
Gain a basic understanding of anxiety and how it relates to children. Learn how to support parents/workers with anxious children to feel confident and competent to manage anxious behaviours in a way that promotes the child’s bravery and wellbeing.
Learn about the importance of Attachment, how to identify patterns in children and develop a framework for working with Attachment needs in practice. Also emphasised is the need for reflective practice in relation to Attachment Theory principles.
INVOLVE is a three-day conference that runs every two years, moving location around the country. It is our vision that INVOLVE acts as a meeting place for the entire sector - anyone who works with or for young people - to gather, share and learn.
Some of our wonderful Schools Pride Week Youth Advisory Group members share experiences of rainbow young people in schools, the challenges they're facing, the positive work schools are doing and what they want teachers to know!
Ths resources provides audio from the InsideOUT intergenerational, online panel discussion to celebrate Lesbian Visibility Day on 26 April 2020.
More Than Four is a video resource from InsideOUT, exploring the experiences of and beyond ‘LGBT’ identities which aims to give visibility and representation to marginalised experiences within rainbow communities.
Delivered with honesty, sensitivity, and sometimes humour, Francis discusses psycho-therapeutic techniques that can pull young people back from the brink. It focuses on what you can do to make a difference.
Compassion fatigue and burnout can be serious occupational hazards within the helping profession. This seminar provides information to help identify the signs/symptoms of compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burnout and ways to retain your wellness.
This training explores the importance of fostering resilience in young people. Practical skills are shared through 3 activities within resilience training 1. Make Me Resilient, 2. Real Stress Management Skills, 3. Making Difficult Conversations Easier.
This training gives an overview of E-therapies, guidelines for use and where SPARX fits clinically, who benefits from SPARX, depression in adolescence: prevalence rates, barriers to care, brief screening and monitoring of outcome and evidence behind SPARX.
This session explores actively engageing young people in shaping your work this from a practice, leadership and organisation perspective and offers some practical ways to involve and unlock the power of young people.
This session summarises and redefines ”strengths-based” practice, builds upon existing strengths-focused and mana-enhancing approaches, offers ways of reframing your language, provides skills and frameworks for creating change and hope with young people.
This session explores practical considerations for using Zoom effectively, using breakout groups, polls and other techniques for discussion, the importance of chat and reactions features and the benefits of Zoom vs Microsoft Teams and other platforms.
Responding to the global pandemic by exploring online options requires unique ethical considerations. This session introduces ethical concepts for digital youth work and provides information and resources to enhance youth work online.
Christian Gallen explains effective and creative ways that youth organisations can use social media and online platforms. This workshop offers an introduction-level training that may help generate fresh ideas for how to engage with youth online.
This session covers important information that Christian (session facilitator) has learned about creating social media policies for his team.
This session provides an overview of the current social-mediascape including what you need to know about the popular platforms, and what platforms you don't know but should.
This workshop will focus on the Wānanga in the pōwhiri process.
This workshop will continue to look at the pōwhiri process with particular focus on the whare and kai.
Join Danette Abraham-Tiatia and Tane Keepa as they carry on the conversation begun in previous workshops about the pōwhiri process. This workshop will focus on the Whaikōrero.
This training session will continue on the discussion of the pōwhiri process with a particular focus on Waharoa/Karanga with connections made to working with youth
The pōwhiri process is introduced beginning with the wero (challenge) including: What to consider before entering into a relationship with tangata whenua, hapū and Māori? Rules of engagement. Who are we are approaching? How does this relate to youth work?
The main focus of this training will continue discussion from last week on the Treaty of Waitangi and will cover: - Why a Treaty in Aotearoa? What did the treaty say? Historical contex. Relevance for youth work practice.
Introduction to and discussion of Te Tiriti o Waitangi/The Treaty of Waitangi
This is the first in a series of trainings around understanding tīkanga through exploring the pōwhiri process and how the different elements can help both in our practice and in our lives. This session unpacks the importance of knowing who you are.
This workshop is intended to further develop skills of experienced youth work supervisors and includes sharing practical experiences to deepen learning in supervision. We explore creative supervision agreements and common ethical issues
This workshop explores how to get the best out of supervision. The outline of the session includes: defining supervision, what should supervision be doing?, building a supervision agreement and preparing for and reflecting in supervision.
This workshop is intended to develop supervision skills and covers the roles and functions of supervision, guiding reflective conversation, questioning techniques, skills for balancing support and challenge, reflection and future development
This workshop explores responding to disclosures about depression, anxiety, self harm, suicidal ideation, sexual abuse/violence and responding to young people coming out about sexual/gender identity.
This workshop will brainstorm ideas for how youth workers can find strength and hope for the challenges after lockdown and ideas for assisting young people they work with do the same.
This workshop will help you better support the young people you work with, as well as help you understand and manage your own responses to the Covid-19 crisis.
Simi and Annie explore positive youth development in times of uncertainty, and insights about current research on what wellbeing for young people means. They also provide a framework for youth wellbeing and strategies to support young people's wellbeing
This talk focusses on impacts of sexual violence on a young person's life, how best to support from within a youth worker role, discuss the importance of boundaries and self care when doing this work, and how to work alongside families where appropriate.
Building on a model of youth wellbeing developed during a study of NZ High School students, this webinar explores different angles people working with and for young people can take are explored to support healthy development and wellbeing.
This webinar covers the relationship between sleep and wellbeing, bullying, metal illness, suicide, memory, self-esteem. IIt also looks at different sleeping patterns and problems and provides strategies to teach young people to sleep better.
Hear the latest research in effective suicide prevention, where and how to help someone, misconceptions, impacts of sleep deprivation, how to address suicide safely with young people, how to support young people if there has been a death by suicide.
Hear insights Christian Gallen has gained about current trends and research into the topic of pornography, how it may be affecting young people and what helpful messages and support youth organisations could offer.
This webinar covers: What self-harm is, why young people do it, when someone needs medical attention, why self-harm is considered a contagious behaviour, when self-harm turns into suicide, and addresses common misconceptions of “seeking attention”
This workshop focuses on working with people who have experienced traumatic events and present with guilt, grief, relationship problems, etc. It offers a practical framework for intervention using Solution-Focused Brief Therapy and positive psychology.
Solution-Focussed Brief Therapy: A three-day intensive training
DDP Level 1 Training: A four-day intensive
This webinar helps participants to recognise anxiety disorders in children and adolescents by exploring signs of anxiety, where they come from, why they exist and provides a range of practical and powerful intervention techniques
In this workshop participants will learn practical strategies to effectively respond to children and teens with anxiety and ways to capture the powerful buffering role school can play in strengthening all young people against anxiety at school and beyond.
Children's Commissioner Judge Becroft discusses how community organisations can respond to priorities for tamariki and rangatahi and shares insights into how children fared in the Covid-19 lockdown and what is needed to support young people going forward.
Hear about the amazing work the Classification Office are doing with their Youth Advisory Panel! Their young people are speaking and they are listening! Hear the interview with Georgia and Caitlin and the wisdom they have to share!
“Nau mai haere mai! We invite you to come and share space with Char and Jane as we reflect on the journey and the destination… that is Mana Taiohi.”
In this post-covid world, we are learning ways to adapt our lives into the “new norm.” Watch this resource to deepen your knowledge and strengthen your learning on Mātauranga with Drs whaea Elizabeth Kerekere and Kelsey Deane.
Join us to hear from these amazing wahine toa in Nikki Hurst and Annabel Prescott in their discussion of Whakapapa.
Manuia le vaiaso o le gagana Samoa! Tune in to the sweet soulful heart that is Fati Tagoaias he discusses his Kaiparahuarahi article on Hononga.
Hear how Jono Harrison of Dannevirke fame, utilised whanaungatanga in a rural context!
Matekino is the kaihautū for Ara Taiohi and a massive voice in the creation of Mana Taiohi. He brings a wealth of knowledge on Mana and Mauri as well as the entirety of Mana Taiohi and how it all fits together. Trust us. This is not a session to be missed!
Join Sharon Davis as she discusses her article from Kaiparahuarahi on the power of Manaakitanga.
Rod, Hannah and Sarah unpack their article for Kaiparahuarahi on Youth Participation. "This korero is an opportunity to get a glimpse into the weird and wonderful minds behind our article and how it came to be.” – Hannah Dunlop
Bilal is a long-time friend of Ara Taiohi and wrote an excellent article of the place of Te Ao within the Mana Taiohi framework. Here he talks about this article his story and how Te Ao fits amidst a COVID-19 context too.
Live For Tomorrow includes challenging responses to the online crisis, key insights from New Zealand young people and sharing of key tools tto effectively listen to young people in crisis online.