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Press Release – New Zealand Government Budget 2021 shows the Governments commitment to tackling the long-term challenge of Mori reoffending while putting the focus on the wellbeing of whnau, with the launch of Whine Mori Pathways at Christchurch Womens Prison, Corrections Minister …
Budget 2021 shows the Government’s commitment to tackling the long-term challenge of Māori reoffending while putting the focus on the wellbeing of whānau, with the launch of Wāhine
Māori Pathways at Christchurch Women’s Prison, Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis said today.
The Wāhine Māori Pathways are a series of initiatives designed in partnership with Māori to build better outcomes for women in Christchurch Women’s Prison.
Māori Pathways at
Christchurch Women’s Prison, Corrections Minister Kelvin
Davis said today.
The Wāhine Māori Pathways are a
series of initiatives designed in partnership with Māori to
build better outcomes for women in Christchurch Women’s
Prison.
“The Wāhine Māori Pathways recognise and
respond to the specific needs of women in the criminal
justice system, and will also improve wellbeing outcomes for
tamariki and whānau alongside the women,” Kelvin Davis
said.
“Our corrections system has largely been
designed and developed to provide for men, however women
have specific needs that require a unique approach and
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Irene and Nikita share how their lives transformed when they embraced their Māori heritage at the launch of a new $10 million Government initiative designed to break the cycle of wāhine reoffending. The Wāhine Māori Pathways programme was designed in partnership with Māori to build better outcomes for women in prison, and putting the focus on the wellbeing of whānau. The initiative would be available to women serving sentences in jail or in the community, with priority for those who identify as Māori or have a connection though their children or whānau.
An agreement to open the clinic was approved by the Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) last week, and would open next month, Ngatai said. He expected the clinic could vaccinate 150 to 200 people per day and would focus on Māori, Pacific, and “the high needs community in east Christchurch”. As of May 6, the CDHB was operating 10 Covid-19 vaccination clinics for border and MIQ workers and their household contacts, frontline health care workers, and people who lived in communal environments where there was a higher risk of Covid-19 spreading. The risk of dying from Covid-19 was at least 50 per cent higher for Māori than people from European backgrounds, according to research published in the