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Jade Speaks Up Educational Trust
Empowering tamariki with practical tools to build emotional resilience and strengthen wellbeing.
Managing difficult emotions
In a world of increasing uncertainty, it’s natural for tamariki to feel worried, anxious, or overwhelmed at times. When tamariki are empowered with practical coping strategies, they build trust and resilience, which gives them a greater sense of agency.
Change starts with the choices we make.
Equip yourself with practical tools and strategies to support tamariki experiencing anxiety, stress, or the impacts of family harm.
Empower tamariki to understand, express, and manage their emotions so they can flourish.
Together, we can make a change, strengthening the wellbeing of our tamariki, our whanau, our community.
Speaking up makes an impact
Every child has a right to feel safe and understood.
Using trauma-informed, interactive methods, we equip you with practical, evidence-based strategies to support the emotional needs of tamariki—empowering them to become the change-makers in their own lives.
Teachers who engaged with our programmes saw meaningful improvements
Ko te oranga tonutanga o te tamaiti kei te tihi o te mātauranga
Keeping child wellbeing at the heart of learning
Equipping adults to empower children
Our programmes offer a range of solution-focused, strengths-based tools and strategies to use with children, whether you are a parent, whānau member, teacher, sports coach, youth mentor, or social worker.
Gain skills as well as learning the theory.
We provide opportunities to practice and integrate the skills into all your interactions with tamariki that enhance trust, connection, and emotional environment.
Go beyond a handout with a list of techniques.
We deliver extensive solutions that enable you to manage a wide array of emotional and behavioural challenges, ensuring you are prepared for any situation.
Our programmes are grounded in te ao Māori principles.
We respect and celebrate the rich cultural heritage of Aotearoa and integrate the Māori worldview in our programmes to foster an inclusive learning environment.
"One of the strongest messages I got from this workshop: a child lacking a voice in a violent home will be powerless and become lost."
At the end of 2019, it became evident that the school had to manage and help support children in increasingly complex situations around violence and unsafe children.
By teachers, teacher aides, principals, Oranga Tamariki, NGO’s and myself being able to complete this training of Jade Speaks Up, it meant that the students and teachers can have stronger, trusting relationships and the pupils feel more connected and grounded.
One of the strongest messages I gained from this workshop was that a child lacking a voice in a violent home will be powerless and become lost. They won’t reach their full potential and lack self-belief. Children will still be victims of violence, they will still disclose at school.
Children need to know that someone understands and can find help and support for them. It is imperative that the teacher feels strong and able to help the child’s voice be heard by appropriate people and action taken.”
~ Lisa Sell ~
Empower tamariki with emotional literacy skills
With Jade Speaks Up, you're not just signing up for a programme; you're embarking on a journey that will equip you with practical strategies and a deeper understanding of how to build children’s resilience.
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