Child and Youth Wellbeing Strategy launch

TSI’s Director of Social and Community Innovation Gael Surgenor and students from Mangere College with Hon. Tracey Martin and Waiariki MP Tamati Coffey, holding his son Tūtānekai Smith-Coffey.

On 29 August, TSI was invited to the launch of the Child & Youth Wellbeing Strategy in Rotorua. TSI’s Director of Social and Community Innovation Gael Surgenor and students from South Auckland’s Mangere College travelled to the event and were able to meet with the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Hon. Tracey Martin, Minister for Children and Tamati Coffey, Labour Party MP for Waiariki. TSI is featured in the strategy including the innovation work we are doing in the Early Years System and with the Māori Pasifika Trades Training programme.