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Jeremy Tumoana

Ngaariki Kaiputahi, Te Aitanga a Mahaaki, Rongowhakaata and Ngai Tuhoe

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    Jeremy Tumoana

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    Ngaariki Kaiputahi, Te Aitanga a Mahaaki, Rongowhakaata and Ngai Tuhoe

Ko Horouta me Mātaatua ōku Waka
Ko Maungahaumi me Taiarahia ngā Maunga
Ko Waipaua me Ōhinemataroa ngā Awa
Ko Te Aitanga ā Māhaki me Ngai Tūhoe ōku Iwi
Ko Jeremy Tumoana ahau.

"Kotahi te kākano, he nui ngā hua o te rākau" - it only takes one good intention to bear many good things.

Jeremy is of Ngaariki Kaiputahi, Te Aitanga a Mahaaki, Ngati Porou and Ngai Tuhoe decent.

Jeremy is a father of 3, and he and his lovely wife and whanau reside in Kingston Wellington. Jeremy has extensive professional and personal experience in MH&A, and has been the General Manager of Te Paepae Arahi Trust Kaupapa Māori MH&A Services in Lower Hutt since June 2019, and enjoys his role working with a caring and dedicated team supporting whānau. Jeremy has managerial and governance experience working in a range of sectors including roles within the Ministry of Health, GP Practice management, DHB Health management, NGO health and Social services management, Philanthropy, and community and education sectors. ​

Jeremy is passionate about whānau wellbeing and our collective ‘matauranga i te Ao Māori’ concepts of recovery and wellbeing.

He kōrerorero:

My lived experience of mental health and addiction recovery is a key strength that I bring to my professional capability. I believe this has given me a great understanding of varying aspects true and realistic outcomes for tangata Whaiora and whānau katoa. Particularly in reducing the level of prejudice and discrimination that occurs frequently for Māori, and the level of horrendous outcomes experienced by Māori within our health system in general, particularly mental health.

It has been a mix of ‘excitement’ and wariness of the level of change required vs the level of change occurring through the mental health sector, particularly with the recent governmental directives. I wish to acknowledge the hard-working Mental Health & Addictions professionals I have been privileged to meet and work with over recent times, for which we would not have our current ‘strengths’ in terms of leadership and political voices of change that are present today. Kaupapa Māori Mental Health is now my personal and professional priority, and the past decades have seen a great amount of disinvestment and damage done to this service sector that is crucial for the positive change and maintenance for effective service delivery to Māori. This highlights the importance to positively influence and hopefully control a national agenda from a Māori positioning worldview, as control of the agenda ultimately informs the change within the discourse. So “mana motuhake”, “tino rangatiratanga”,” ka whawhai tonu mātou” continue to remain relevant and strong statements today as much as they have ever been since my Auckland University days in 1992 where Ranginui Walker first lectured my peers and I around these important facets of self-determination.

Nō reira, he waka eke noa, he waka hauora mō ngā iwi katoa… kia mau!! Hoe! Hoe! Hoe a raa!!