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Recognising and celebrating educational achievement for Pasifika communities is important. Some scholarship recipients may have defied all odds to get to this point in their academic and professional career, and it’s also important to visibly role model that success is possible, especially for future generations.

One in 5 New Zealanders live with mental illness or addiction in a given year, and for Pasifika people, it’s 1 in 4. 173,933 New Zealanders accessed mental health and addiction services in 2016/17 – a 73% growth in access over the last decade, whilst funding increased by 40%.

The Tongan Youth Trust are pleased to announce a very successful evening at the Tongan Youth Excellence Awards on Friday 16 March; with a full house of 300 guests, nominees and families present.

Teagan Moore is a recipient of the 2017 Future’s that work scholarship and is now an Assistant Programme developer and trainer for the Graeme Dingle Foundation.

Mark Tuifao Anae is a recipient of the Pacific mental health and addiction scholarship shares his story.

There’s a lot of banter out there at there at the moment about the governments’ new mental health inquiry, and the impact it will have on improving mental health in the future. The fact is, the success of the inquiry for Pasifika people will actually be dependent on the success of Pasifika people standing up and speaking out.