Co-designed with Maori Participants and colleagues

Objective

Carry out a small research project to partner with a Maori service provider and the people they support to provide leadership in the inclusion of the Maori community through providing feedback on the Pictability Family Vision and Planning tool and make recommendations on culturally appropriateness and respectful planning processes.

Intervention/Activities

Consult with the Maori community regarding the Pictability planning and visioning process and document its cultural appropriateness/relevance.

Research project will include interviews, consultations and co-design with:

1. Key people: families and CCSDA Maori professionals and other key staff

2. Maori Now and Next participants and Maori families who have done the Pictability experience

3. Co-design adaptations to reflect the Maori culture

Interviewees

The interview process started in March 2018. The following people were interviewed:

  1. Maori Now and Next program participants and Maori families who have done the Pictability experience at CCS Disability Action: in total 13 parents

  2. Key informers amongst CCS Disability Action Maori staff and other Maori professionals: in total 10 Maori professionals

Research questions:

  1. How did Maori families experience the Pictability planning process?

  2. Were there gaps in their experiences that could have added impact?

  3. What underlying cultural perspective/model would explain the above?

Deliverables/Outputs

  • Document existing planning processes with whanau

Research and evaluation to answer the above research questions

  • Describe the learning points from our mechanisms as far as their cultural appropriateness for Maori families, and by extension for New Zealand families

  • Write up as report

  • Present findings at the Hawaii Pacific Rim Disability Conference

Partnership with the CCSDA Maori team

A number of sessions were carried out where people contributed photos that are meaningful to them and discussed their role in the planning process

Participants actively contributed

Our co-design participants brought out aspects of their experience which was important to them and their communities. Some contributed personal photos of their university graduation, their mokos, their marae or informal pictures of their families collecting kai moana.

Trialing the visioning experience

Participants were invited to trial the different versions of the planning tool, with open, informal chatting around Kai to capture all aspects, big and small around planning

Reflection and re-cap sessions

The co-design process takes time, but it is rewarding to create some new outcomes and bring the project to a conclusion together.

2019 Research Report Planning for Maori families CitizenYou website FINAL copy.pdf

Engaging Maori Families in Culturally Appropriate Planning and Visioning

With funding from the Innovation Stream (CCSDA, Wellington), we carried out a 6 months project to gather valuable input from Maori participants and organisations. People engaged in this cooperation and the final version was co-created. Some excerpts of this activity is described above, and an interim informal report is presented on the left.

Recommendations from the Social Innovation Report

  1. To add to the New Zealand Pictability a set of goal cards with the Maori themes suggested by participants.

  2. To continue working in partnership with Maori families and embed in future projects ongoing consultation about what matters to Maori families in the process of planning for their child and family.

  3. Most professionals also mentioned that this suite of tools should be rolled out across New Zealand as the goal setting we have to comply to government directives is “​old and stale​”. Evidence from this project is congruent with CCS Disability Action vision items (1) People can make conscious choices about education, training, home, work, real relationships, natural supports and (2) Growing more self-advocacy, confidence, knowledge and resources to bring the voices of people with disabilities to the fore.