Social Service Providers Aotearoa
SSPA is a voice and support for non-profit organisations that turn lives around in their work with vulnerable children, young people and families/whanau.
November 2020 - Social Service Providers Aotearoa (SSPA), the sector representative group for child, family, whānau and community providers, looks forward to continuing our work with the government and is pleased to present this briefing paper. We are seeking dialogue and we are seeking action. We are committed to making progress together in this term of government.
Read our Briefing to Incoming Ministers here
Improving Outcomes for Tamariki Māori Workshop Series
Registrations open
The Tiaki Tamariki Whakamana Whānau programme (click here for a summary) is a series of one-day interactive workshops that will help you enhance your organisation’s capability to respond to the Act’s changes and help your staff work alongside tamariki and whānau.
Changes to the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989 Section 7AA mean that now more than ever there is a need for service providers to have the skills, practices and structures that support their Māori clients to achieve improved outcomes.
Many of you will have participated in the Tū Rangatira Governance hui held in July, where we discussed these changes. We also explored the Tiaki Tamariki: Whakamana Whānau programme designed to enhance your organisation’s capability to respond to the Act’s changes and help your staff work alongside tamariki and whānau.
The programme’s skilled facilitators will work with you so that you can adapt and respond to your local environment. Regions include: Wellington, New Plymouth, Palmerston North, Hamilton, South Auckland, Central Auckland and Northland
The programme is designed around a whole-of-organisation approach. Such an approach will involve you:
Supporting two or three of your staff to participate in and promote organisational approaches within your workplace to achieve improved outcomes for tamariki Māori and their whanau.
Participating in the four one-day workshops in your region over the next eight months.
This programme is free to attend for Oranga Tamariki contracted providers and their staff.
Read more here
September 2020 - CSIA, in partnership with Social Service Providers Aotearoa, have launched the Community Services across the Tasman series. This is a free online event bringing together speakers from across Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia to share their insights, learnings, research and more. The three sessions include Service Adaptation, Employment and Inclusive Growth, and Social Investment and Commissioning. Tickets are limited! You can find out more and secure your spot here
Please join us on Thursday 10 September at 11am-1pm (NZST) to walk away with fresh insight to Industry-led approaches to commissioning as well as new ways of working that focuses on empowering communities in the process.
Don’t miss out on this opportunity. The borders may be closed, but we can still come together and share what’s working and what isn’t as we move into COVID-19 recovery.
August 2020 - CSIA, in partnership with Social Service Providers Aotearoa, have launched the Community Services across the Tasman series. This is a free online event bringing together speakers from across Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia to share their insights, learnings, research and more. The three sessions include Service Adaptation, Employment and Inclusive Growth, and Social Investment and Commissioning. Tickets are limited! You can find out more and secure your spot here
Tuesday 1 September 2020 at 11am NZ time via Zoom. Your biggest asset is your workforce. Join us at a FREE online event to hear from organisations delivering creative and innovative workforce and inclusive growth solutions to meet demands now and into the future. Community Services Industry Alliance CEO Belinda Drew (Australia) and the panel of speakers will share the insights, learnings and research you need to know now, to build your most important asset, your workforce!
Don’t miss out on this opportunity. The borders may be closed, but we can still come together and share what’s working and what isn’t as we move into COVID-19 recovery.
August 2020 - The Covid-19 lockdown period demanded new ways of responding to old problems. This provided an opportunity for family and sexual violence services, and child and family services, as well as many others, to reconsider their methods of both staff and service user engagement. This report documents the findings of an online workshop faciliated by Dr Emily Keddell from the University of Otago with input from social service providers. Read it here