We focused on working with the Pacific community to build capability - Annual Report 2019/20
We seek to build strong connections with the Pacific community so that we can achieve better outcomes for Pacific people, both internally and in partnership with community providers.
This year we:
- launched our Pacific strategy and action plan, Pacific Prosperity, to improve the overall wellbeing of our Pacific families and communities
- set up a Pacific Steering Group and a Pacific Reference Group to inform the implementation of Pacific Prosperity.
We continued to partner with Pacific community providers to ensure that the right programmes were available to support our Pacific families and communities. These relationships were especially important during the COVID-19 response; for example, providing food parcels to Pacific families.
Under Pacific Prosperity, this year we:
- worked with South Seas Healthcare to pilot a communication hub and navigation service to distribute funding during the nationwide lockdown period so that Pacific communities were able to support Pacific families to cope with job loss and the provision of food for their families, and to provide pastoral care for families
- partnered with Pacific communities to capture real-time data to activate rapid responses to the needs of Pacific communities
- engaged Pacific providers to make calls to Pacific seniors aged 70 years and over, to check on their welfare and safety
- funded Pacific providers to deliver pastoral care, food and other services to Pacific families and communities during the April/May lockdown and beyond
- assisted Pacific providers to achieve accreditation levels and/or improve their capability to deliver to families and communities.
