History of Te Puaruruhau
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Our team was born in Princess Mary Children’s Hospital in the 1980s, but began a new journey with tangata whenua in 1990, when we were first gifted a name by Ngāti Whātua, the iwi on whose whenua (land) we are located. That name was Whakaruruhau (a place of shelter or protection), and the name moved with us into the new Starship Hospital in 1991. A decade later, we amalgamated with Te Pua Pohutukawa, a service for the victims of adolescent sexual assault which had evolved within sexual health services. Ngāti Whātua gifted the new combined team with a new name: Te Puaruruhau (sheltering the bud).
In 2002, we moved across the road from Starship to 99 Grafton Road, to be co-located with Police and Oranga Tamariki in a multi-agency centre informed by the experience of Child Advocacy Centres overseas. Ngāti Whātua gifted this new concept another, over-arching, new name: Puawaitahi (blossoming in unity). |
The Puawaitahi logo, represents our joint commitment to working together for the welfare of tamariki, rangatahi and their whānau.
For 30 years, our team has delivered 24/7 services to children and young people who have experienced any form of child abuse or neglect, not only regionally here in Tāmaki Makaurau but nationally across Aotearoa for any who have required consultation with our specialist team or admission to Starship Children’s Health.
For 30 years, our team has also been training health professionals, statutory social workers, police officers and many others to try and help improve the front-line response to child abuse and family violence.
Further information and registration is available through this website for two comprehensive training courses for health professionals that we have been delivering for many years and which are now available online:
COVID has opened our eyes to the potential of online learning as a tool in our mission to support continuous quality improvement in the front-line response to abuse, neglect and family violence. We hope to make much more online training available in the months and years to come.
For 30 years, our team has delivered 24/7 services to children and young people who have experienced any form of child abuse or neglect, not only regionally here in Tāmaki Makaurau but nationally across Aotearoa for any who have required consultation with our specialist team or admission to Starship Children’s Health.
For 30 years, our team has also been training health professionals, statutory social workers, police officers and many others to try and help improve the front-line response to child abuse and family violence.
Further information and registration is available through this website for two comprehensive training courses for health professionals that we have been delivering for many years and which are now available online:
- Assessment of Suspected Sexual Abuse in Children and Adolescents (ASAC). This takes place in March each year.
- Assessment of Suspected Physical Abuse in Children and Adolescents (APAC). This takes place in August each year.
COVID has opened our eyes to the potential of online learning as a tool in our mission to support continuous quality improvement in the front-line response to abuse, neglect and family violence. We hope to make much more online training available in the months and years to come.
In the words of Sir James Henare: |
Dr Patrick Kelly
Paediatrician | Course Director, Te Puaruruhau | Starship Child Health
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