Te Manaia Leadership Awards

Te Manaia Award Winners 2009 ~~ Te Manaia Award Winners 2008 ~~ Te Manaia Award Winners 2007 ~~ About the 2007 Winners ~~ Master Carver Bevan Climo ~~ Te Manaia Award Winners 2006 ~~ About the 2006 Winners

Te Manaia – the Guardian Angel
Te Manaia has the head of a bird, the body of a man, and the tail of a fish-representing the balance between sky, earth and water. Te Manaia, as the Guardian Angel, has a special role in the Māori world. It can be described as the unseen light surrounding each individual. Every person on earth has a Guardian Angel to ward off danger and evil. Te Manaia represents safety.

Aim:
To recognise and honour outstanding commitment and contribution to injury prevention in New Zealand and to the Injury Prevention Network of Aotearoa New Zealand (IPNANZ)

Nominee and nominator eligibility: Current or past member of IPNANZ.

Nominees must meet at least two of the following criteria:

1. Outstanding commitment and contribution to IPNANZ
2. Demonstrated excellence in an injury prevention activity
3. Outstanding contribution to the injury prevention community
4. Development of an exceptional career in injury prevention:
   a. Academic achievements
   b. Employment achievements.
   

Process:
Nominations are made using the IPNANZ Leadership Awards Nomination Form.

Applications are invited annually and close on 1 September.The decision regarding who will receive the award(s) will be made by a committee of three consisting of at least two current members of the IPNANZ Committee (including one member of the Executive) and the IPNANZ National Manager. Recipients will be notified by 1 October of each year. Award recipients will be announced and awarded at the IPNANZ AGM.

If necessary a maximum of $500 will be made available by the IPNANZ committee to assist with travel costs for recipients attending the AGM to receive their awards.

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Te Manaia Award Winners 2009

Cherie Brown

Cherie has given six years to the IPNANZ Committee. She was initially elected to the IPNANZ Committee in November 2001 and resigned in May 2003. In November 2005 Cherie was elected to the IPNANZ New Zealand caucus and was re-elected in 2007 for a further two years. During this time Cherie held the position of treasurer and deputy chairperson

Cherie was instrumental in preparing and promoting the change to the IPNANZ constitution in 2003 to ensure Pacific representation on the IPNANZ committee. She also fostered the development of the IPNANZ Pacific Strategy that paved the way for specific Ministry of Health funding of the IPNANZ Pacific Manager position.

Throughout all this time Cherie has very actively contributed to the governance of IPNANZ and always provided very sound advice.

In particular Cherie is a proud mother of two sons Matthew (20 years) and Nathan (15 years), a wife, an auntie to over 15 nieces and nephews, being creative and enjoying life.

In her position at Pacific Island Safety and Prevention Project for the past 14 years Cherie has been involved in delivering injury prevention projects on child car restraints, as well as a lot of work in the area of intentional injury (including violence and abuse prevention, counselling, youth programs and support and advice for Pacific Communities).  She is always a strong advocate for community development and working to benefit our communities as a whole.

Bridget Kool

Bridget was an IPNANZ Committee member from 2005 till 2007, where she fulfilled the role of Secretary on the IPNANZ Executive. This was done during a period of strong growth and new challenges for IPNANZ and Bridget brought superb reasoning and planning skills to this process. In addition, Bridget continues to teach on the IPNANZ Foundation Certificate in Injury Prevention Te Aho Tapu, adding value to the learning experience of students on the course.

In her role at the University of Auckland, Bridget has undertaken two very important areas of study. She led the Auckland Falls Study, which examined the contributing factors to falls amongst adults in the home setting. This robust and comprehensive study was able to show a number of important causal factors for adult falls, particularly that of alcohol consumption. Bridget is now leading the home safety study, which is being run with case studies in Auckland, Waikato, Eastern Bay of Plenty and Otago. This study builds on the Auckland Falls study and focuses particularly on falls and cutting/piercing injuries. Throughout these studies Bridget has been active in disseminating and sharing her results and progress with the wider injury prevention sector.

Bridget has now been awarded her PhD degree in Population Health, with her thesis being regarded very highly by examiners and being placed on the Dean's  list, in acknowledgement of its excellence.

Bridget has also made many presentations on her work and has been acknowledged for the excellence of her presentational style and content.

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Te Manaia Award Winners 2008

Carolyn Coggan 

Carolyn Coggan is well known to all of us. Carolyn you have been, and continue to be a mover and shaker for the injury prevention sector. We value your absolute determination to make things happen.

Carolyn is the Director of the Safe Communities Foundation New Zealand. She has been involved in injury prevention for over 15 years in Aotearoa New Zealand during which time she has been recognised internationally and nationally as a leader within the fields of Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion.

Carolyn established the Safe Community Foundation of New Zealand in 2004 to further support the development of International Safe Communities in New Zealand. Prior to this, she was the Director of the Injury Prevention Research Centre, and an Associate Professor at the School of Population Health, University of Auckland.

As the Chairperson of the New Zealand Injury Prevention Strategy Stakeholder Reference Group, Carolyn has been extensively involved in the development and implementation of the Strategy. She established the annual NZ Community Safety Awards, which recognise, reward and promote best-practice community-based injury prevention and safety promotion in New Zealand.

There is much, much more we could say. Carolyn, thank you.

Geoff Wilson

Geoff Wilson's nominator, Dee Young, said Geoff is a star in the injury prevention sector.

Dee wrote: "Geoff's 43 years of involvement is proof of an exceptional career in injury prevention. His management of both injury prevention strategies and his roles as a people manager at both OSH and ACC qualify him for this award, demonstrating excellence in an injury prevention activity of management.

"He has shown commitment and contribution to IPNANZ as a founding member of the Workforce Development Steering Group, and by ensuring NZIPS continues to be supportive of IPNANZ in general. Geoff is a vocal supporter of the Injury Prevention community, and sees the New Zealand Injury Prevention Strategy Stakeholder Reference Group representing community injury prevention practitioners, as pivotal to NZIPS and the whole sector.

"In leading the implementation of NZIPS, Geoff has successfully managed to bridge the gap between the community and government sectors. His diplomacy and networking skills have been instrumental in his success. He is an exemplary individual, who is a role model to many and trusted by all."

It's all true, Geoff; you are a star, a trusted guiding light. Thank you.

We are delighted to be here at the 17th International Safe Communities Conference. Congratulations for this award and very best wishes for what we are anticipating will be a brilliant few days.

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Te Manaia Award Winners 2007

IPNANZ established the Te Manaia Leadership awards in 2006. You can read about last year's winners below.

In 2007 Joyce-Anne Raihania and Alan Parsons were honoured for their outstanding contribution to the Injury Prevention Sector and the setting up of the Injury Prevention Network of Aotearoa New Zealand. They were presented with IPNANZ Te Manaia carvings.

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About the 2007 Winners

Joyce-Anne Raihania

As a working wife and mother, Joyce-Anne recognises her commitment to injury prevention is about 'whānau ora' and must start in her home first, or on the rugby field, or at the ballet or violin and Kapa Haka practices!

She says, "Sadly Māori injury statistics continue to increase and the national media is committed to ensuring that all these Māori stories are told- but let's also invite the media to celebrate those whānau who work very hard in ensuring that they continue to connect to their elderly, are communicating daily with their Rangatahi and that babies and young children's growth are exciting milestones for all and not seen as a burden."

Kia Tupato!

Outstanding Commitment and Contribution to IPNANZ
Joyce-Anne was a member of the foundation committee that led IPNANZ in the early stages of its development in 1998. At that time she was employed by ACC as the Programme Manager Cultural Strategies and bought a wealth of experience and initiative to assist in the development of IPNANZ. Joyce-Anne was a very active member of the Māori caucus and an active committee member from 2002-2004 and Deputy Chairperson 2004-5.

CONTRIBUTION TO THE INJURY PREVENTION SECTOR

Demonstrated Excellence in an Injury Prevention Activity
Joyce-Anne was instrumental in the development of the IPNANZ Māori strategies document Te Huarahi Hou which remains the foundation of the IPNANZ Māori work programme today.

Outstanding Contribution to the Injury Prevention Community
Joyce-Anne was the ACC Injury Prevention, Programme Manager Cultural Strategies for four years. Within that time she worked with communities and other government agencies including LTNZ, Te Puni Kokiri and Police to consider strategies to reduce road injuries among Māori.

Development of an Exceptional Career in Injury Prevention
In 2004 Joyce-Anne was invited by Health Canada to present at the First Nations Injury Prevention Conference in Winnipeg, Canada. Her presentation reflected on the association between indigenous peoples and injury. She was also invited to provide an overview of the Māori role in the New Zealand Parliamentary system and this led to her being invited as a guest speaker at a dinner hosted by the Assembly of First Nation Department in Ottawa, Canada.

Academic Achievements
Joyce-Anne holds a Bachelor of Education degree and Diploma of Teaching from the University of Auckland and is presently completing the last paper of her Postgraduate Diploma Public Health, from the Wellington School of Medicine, University of Otago. In recent years she has been appointed as a JP and is presently formalising her role as a Marriage Celebrant.

Employment Achievements
Joyce Anne has worked as a Primary School teacher, and then as Regional Māori Advisor for the West Auckland region for an organisation known then as Skill New Zealand. She joined ACC in 1998 as the Injury Prevention Division Programme Manager Cultural Strategies, where her injury prevention skills began to develop and grow.

Following a successful career at ACC Joyce-Anne moved to the Ministry of Health, Māori Health Directorate and was seconded to Parliament to work for the Associate Minister of Health, the then Hon Tariana Turia.

Following a short time as a Business Manager at the New Zealand Open Polytechnic, Joyce-Anne joined the Ministry of Social Development as a Senior Policy Analyst for the Office Community and Voluntary Sector (OCVS) in 2004. Joyce-Anne accepted a secondment invitation in June 2007 year to Child Youth and Family as the National Strategic Relationships Manager.

She is the Māori representative on the National Plunket Ethics Committee providing expertise for Māori projects and also providing input to the proposed injury prevention projects. Over this last year Joyce-Anne was also the mentor for Carol Wrathall, IPNANZ Kaiwhakahaere, and was integral in encouraging Carol to apply for the Sir Winston Churchill Scholarship for which she was successful.

Dr Alan Parsons

Dr Alan Parsons is Head of the Paediatrics department of the Taranaki DHB. His passion and commitment to child health, and particularly the prevention of injury to children, extends over many years and is recognised by the Taranaki community and the wider medical and injury prevention workforce throughout Aotearoa New Zealand.

In the 1980s while in the UK, Dr Parsons lead the development of the first national child injury prevention programme Play it Safe which was funded by the BBC. At this time he was working in the A&E department at Birmingham hospital where he set up the collection of data relating to child injury. He also founded the Birmingham child injury prevention committee.

In 1983 Dr Parsons came to New Zealand and Taranaki. Inspired by Dr Hugh Jackson from the Child Accident Prevention Trust in the UK, he looked at the child injury hospital admissions and then gained permission to photograph the injury sites in the homes as a way of highlighting and promoting injury prevention.

The New Plymouth Child Accident Prevention Group was founded by Dr Parsons in the early 1990s. It later became a legal entity known as Kidsafe Taranaki and went on (and continues) to develop, implement and evaluate excellent child injury prevention programmes. A coordinator of the programme was funded through the Health Promotion Unit, a recognition of the value of Kidsafe Taranaki.

In 2000, when ACC called for expressions of interest from communities seeking to establish broad community injury prevention and safety promotion programmes, Dr Parsons worked with Health Promotion, Tui Ora Ltd (Māori providers) and New Plymouth District Council to gain funding to complete a comprehensive community injury needs assessment. This led to the establishment of New Plymouth injurySafe, a strategic coalition which successfully pushed for the District to be accredited as a WHO Safe Community in 2005. Dr Parsons has acted as a front person for New Plymouth injurySafe in the media and has advocated strongly with Council and the District Health Board to secure funding for the recent appointment of a Safe Community Programme Manager.

Dr Parsons participated in the inaugural IPNANZ conference, was elected onto the committee and assisted in the development of the IPNANZ constitution. He has regularly presented at IPNANZ conferences since then.

He is a member of the NZIPS SRG, representing injury prevention practitioners.

Highlights for Dr Parsons have been the establishment of Kidsafe Taranaki; achieving funding for a coordinator; WHO accreditation and having a core team in Taranaki that have (in his terms) "stuck with it" - this being the reason child injury prevention has and is working for their community.

Alan you are a dedicated champion of child and community injury prevention in Aotearoa New Zealand.

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Master Carver Bevan Climo

Bevan Climo is a master jade carver who lives at Hokitika in Westland. Bevan made the greenstone pendant worn by Beatrice Faumuina, New Zealand's standard bearer at the Athens Olympic Games opening ceremony. His work won the Traditional Māori Design [Iwi] section of the Mana Pounamu Contemporary Awards in 2002. Every one of Bevan's pieces is a unique, "one-off" design which will never be repeated.

Bevan is a born and bred "West Coaster" of Māori descent, his mother's family being affiliated to the Ngai Tahu Kati Mahaki hapu from South Westland. His heritage also includes Scottish, Cornish and German ancestors. He was inspired by pounamu at an early age, by pieces of the stone which his mother found in the wild rivers of Westland and brought home.

Bevan states: "I carve from the heart, like my Tipuna from long ago, and with a sense of pride in and understanding of my Māori culture.

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Te Manaia Award Winners 2006

IPNANZ established the Te Manaia Leadership awards in 2006. The committee wanted to especially recognize 5 people, Margaret Devlin, Molly Pardoe, Jean Simpson, Sandra James and Helen McCracken who have made an outstanding contribution to IPNANZ. Between them they have served over 15 years on the IPNANZ Committee and have given over 60 years of their working experience to injury prevention practice. They are all well known, highly regarded and much loved. They were the ones who started out with a clean slate: Injury Prevention - What is it and how do we do it? They were the ones who took the first steps. Master carver Bevan Climo made five very beautiful pounamou Manaia, one for each of these wonderful women. Thank you!

From left to right: Molly Pardoe, Jean Simpson, Helen McCracken, Margaret Devlin and Sandra James

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About the 2006 Winners

Margaret Devlin
Margaret Devlin was the first Chairperson of IPNANZ Committee from October 2000 at the first AGM until November 2002. This committee established IPNANZ constitution, negotiated the core funding with the Ministry of Health, employed the national Coordinator and established the national office in Wellington. In essence laid the foundations. Along side this Margaret has an extensive background in health promotion and injury prevention. She was the Project Coordinator for Safer Waitakere, which she was instrumental in establishing. In 1999, she convened the successful first Community Safety Conference Pacific Rim attended by 280 delegates. Her interests include all aspects of injury prevention with a particular focus on working alongside Pacific Islanders and Māori colleagues to assist better safety outcomes for all. Margaret is currently Project Coordinator for Waitemata Family Violence Project. Margaret your wonderful sense of humour has sustained many of us through difficult issues as well as encouraging us to celebrate our achievements.

Molly Pardoe
In the field of New Zealand Injury Prevention the name ‘Molly Pardoe' is synonymous with Māori safety first.

Molly is of Te Aitanga-A-Hauiti descent and was part of the working group and a founding member which was instrumental in the establishment of IPNANZ. Molly was also privileged to become a committee member of IPNANZ and held the position of Vice-Chair from October 2000 - November 2002 where she was then nominated to be the Chairperson. During Molly's term as Chair she oversaw the MOH core funding increase to support Māori Injury Prevention and the establishment of the first IPNANZ Māori Kaiwhakahaere. Molly was also part of the collective group involved with the delivery of "The Injury Prevention Workshops" and the establishment of the "IP Foundation Certificate".

Molly's IP life started in 1995 with the role of co-ordinating the Tairawhiti Injury Prevention Pilot Programme, from there Molly became the Manager of the Turanganui-a-Kiwa Injury Prevention Project and was instrumental and passionate in the successful achievements of the; ‘Tairawhiti Drivewise Coalition' ‘Tairawhiti car seat Scheme' ‘The first Iwi road safety programme' ‘Kaumatua Falls programme' Driver licence programmes' and ‘SHATTERED DREAMS'

Since July 2006 Molly has established her own business and because of her passion, commitment and drive for injury prevention her leadership stands in the regional, national and international forums of Injury Prevention.

Jean Simpson
Jean was also a founding member of the group that set up the Injury Prevention Network of Aotearoa New Zealand. IPNANZ owes its very sound constitution to Jean's vision and attention to detail. Jean was Secretary for the inaugural IPNANZ Committee for two years from October 2000 to November 2002 and then co-chaired the Committee with Molly in 2003. Pacific representation on the New Zealand caucus committee was instituted during this time. She was mentor to IPNANZ staff who valued enormously her wisdom and balanced perspective.

Jean has worked for the Injury Prevention Research Unit at Otago University since 1994. Areas Jean has been most involved with include: research and evaluation on reducing injury among rugby players; community injury prevention programmes in small communities; and reducing scalds from hot tap water, and child injury prevention. Jean facilitated coordination among those working in injury prevention in the South Island. Jean is currently working towards another outstanding achievement - her PhD in injury prevention. Jean, you support and inspire us.

Sandra James
Sandra has been a member of IPNANZ since the beginning. She was elected as a Committee member in November 2001. In 2003 she was re-elected to the Committee this time as chairperson, a position she held until November 2005. This was a time of growth for IPNANZ with the establishment of Workforce Development funding under the Memorandum of Understanding between IPNANZ, ACC, Land Transport New Zealand and the New Zealand Injury Prevention Strategy.

Sandra been involved in the injury prevention sector for 12 years as the co-ordinator of Injury Prevention Waimakariri, a community based injury prevention programme based in Rangiora for 7 years and facilitated the programmes accreditation with World Health Organisation. Woodend School was the first school in the Southern Hemisphere to be accredited with WHO Safe Communities. Last week Waimakariri was re accredited as a WHO Safe Community and based on injury statistics the Waimakariri district is the safest region in New Zealand to live. Sandra you have contributed enormously to injury prevention in your local community in your region and nationally and internationally.

Helen McCracken
Helen McCracken's award is special recognition for her contribution to Injury Prevention Workforce Development. Helen has worked in the injury prevention sector for many years initially with Safekids and more recently on contract to IPNANZ. Helen's detailed understanding of the injury prevention workforce provided essential knowledge and a very grounded perspective through on which she was able provide leadership and guidance through the very complex process of building the first formal injury prevention qualification available in Aotearoa New Zealand and seeing it established on the New Zealand Qualifications framework. Helen your wonderful sense of humour, your unconditional respect for your colleagues and students have supported and mentored many, many of us through the development of our injury prevention practice over the last 10 years. We honour you!

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