The objectives of Mahitahi are to support the following areas:
MAORI HEALTH
Promote Whanau Ora - Maori Ora as the foundation on which service provision is built and ultimately delivered on.
Recognise the supportive role of tikanga models of programme delivery ensuring that kaupapa Maaori is prominent and paramount in its structure.
Strengthen whanaungatanga as the medium of transparency for service delivery at both administrative and practicuum levels.
MENTAL HEALTH
Decrease the prevalence of mental illness and mental health problems within the community .
Increase the health status, and reduce the impact of mental disorders on tangata whaiora their whanau, hapu and iwi.
SOCIAL SERVICE
Foster and collaborate for the improvement of community-based health care facilities, and to support and promote services of all kinds for those people in the community with a disability through Kaupapa Maaori.
Promote the inclusion of kaupapa Maaori health models as an approach to assisting in the recognition of quality social service delivery.
Strengthen and foster whakawhanaungatanga, in the planning and implementation of services for those with disabilities and their whanau through recovery
Provide support toward sustainable employment
Provide opportunities to engage meaningfully with communities, services and programmes of choice
HEALTH AND DISABILITY TRAINING SERVICE
Provide quality education and training health programmes that assist in providing a kaupapa Maaori workforce that health can be confident of.
Develop training that in its provision supports and protects the integrity of Maaori health services and their intellectual knowledge
Support the Maori Health and Disability sector to strengthen community workforce development
SOCIAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY SERVICE
Assist with suitable housing options
seek additional options to natural support services that will enable retention of the suitable housing
link tenant with housing agencies to ensure appropriate knowledge of legal rigts and responsibilities
