A developmental evaluation to support intensive & individualised support, coaching and mentoring for kōhine toa in Tamaki Makaurau

This evaluation aims to assess the difference arts and culture programming makes in Aotearoa prisons.

This Rheumatic Fever co-design initiative was facilitated by a team who held Samoan cultural and social capital as well as extensive professional skills and expertise. Point was lucky enough to be invited along for the ride.

Point assisted the Breast Cancer Foundation New Zealand to evaluate the ABCpro digital telehealth nurse service for advanced breast cancer (ABC) patients.

Annalise Myers and Kelly Maung worked with Belong Aotearoa to understand how they have positively impacted the wellbeing of refugee and migrant women and their families.

Point and partner Awa Associates describe in this evaluation how SafeMan SafeFamily helps men who have used violence become safe and understand how much of a difference SafeMan SafeFamily has made for the men, their families and whanau. A copy of the draft report is available.

The Caring for children and tamariki with family and whānau care packs programme was informed by and followed on from the Storytime Foundation Lockdown care packs projects. These evaluations explain the underpinning evidence and the strategies used with the care pack projects, and provide a window into the perspectives of whānau, children, probation officers and police.

Read the latest reports from the Peter McKenzie Project to understand how the project is making a difference to whānau wellbeing, how it is impacting the causes of poverty by supporting upstream systems change work and how it has adopted a participatory model of philanthropy

In this report, Alex Woodley reports on how child-centric prison visiting has deepened whānau connections in a positive way, decreased stress for children, and created the conditions to improve educational and wellbeing outcomes.

The purpose of this report was to evaluate the Tupu Tai Pasifika Internship Programme to gauge the current status of the programme, its ability to inform future programme design, and necessary changes needed to continue to promote greater diversity in the policy space.

Scouts Aotearoa want to better understand the benefits and impacts of the scouting movement. Point has worked with Scouts Aotearoa to develop ongoing evaluation framework enabling them to monitor progress, create a culture of continuous improvement and measure outcomes and impacts.

The Billy Graham Foundation wants to have “national impact at the local level” and “learn as we go”. The Foundation have partnered with Point for three years to understand the impact they are having on young people and their host communities, and identify where there are opportunities for improvement so the Foundation and the academies can achieve their vision.

Peers support workers who have their own experiences of mental distress support young people to develop skills and resources to get through the tough times.

Working together, Johnson & Johnson, secondary and postsecondary schools, and community organizations develop programs that feature academic enrichment, career readiness and exploration activities, and higher education preparation.

West Auckland-based youth agency Ranui 135 coordinates services and activities, including mentoring, leadership camps, weekly sports activities, career planning, employment pathways and a new social media project which upskills young people in event planning and management.

Restorative justice is an opportunity for people who have been harmed, and those responsible for the harm, to come together talk about what happened and why, how they have been harmed. Point is working with Project Restore to evaluate their restorative justice model.

Point is working alongside Take2 to help them measure the impact of a programme that teaches coding, life skills & meditation to people in prisons across Aotearoa.

CEC was a 10-year, multi site initiative of the JR McKenzie Trust for which Point provided evaluation support and guidance.

This evaluation captured the impact of a community-based coaching initiative that empowers vulnerable women.

TOKO has been working with Mangere College for three years on the Manawa Hauora project, to increase the wellbeing of all students. Point has been providing evaluation support throughout the project.