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The Purposeful Peer Support Trust Aotearoa is a charitable trust formed to develop, promote, and educate New Zealand peer workers to use a new peer support framework, which has been created to reflect our local context including our partnership with Tangata Whenua.
Our Organisation
The Purposeful Peer Support Trust was formed by Tautoko Tāne Aotearoa to hold the Purposeful Peer Support Aotearoa (PPSA) intellectual property as a way of protecting and sharing the framework with other organisation and individuals practising peer support in Aotearoa.
The PPSA framework was developed by Tautoko Tāne Aoteroa for particular application in a New Zealand context and mindful of our commitment to partnership with Māori.
The framework had its genesis at a special 2021 national hui of Tautoko Tāne managers and staff representing our Māori, Pasifika and Tauiwi communities. The ‘towards wellbeing’ focus of the framework was born during that hui and the Wellbeing Framework, which sits at the heart of the framework was published in 2022.
Further consultation with our Te Tai Tokerau community led to the adoption of the Maramataka Calendar as a metaphor for the ‘four seasons of relationships’ – the framework’s peer relationship development cycle.
Later that year we piloted Manager training programmes to explore the application of PPSA principles and practises in both individual peer-peer and peer group settings. The outcomes of those pilots and the feedback from 50 peer-worker training participants has further informed the development of the current PPSA framework and the related education programmes.
The framework is intended to be a living system that is continuously quality assured by feedback from the user community to develop and refine its principles, practices, and applications, with an ongoing focus on further developing the framework alignment with Mātauranga Māori principles and practices.
If you are interested in becoming an active PPSA development participant please refer to PPSA Participation.
Our People
Tony Chamberlain
Executive Trustee / Pou Whakahaere
As the Pou Whakahaere of Tautoko Tāne Aotearoa and co-developer of the PPSA framework, I am committed to establishing purposeful peer support as an effective, credentialised, and locally relevant service framework for New Zealand peer workers. The development of PPSA reflects my 10 years of experience in developing a peer support service within the sexual violence sector in Aotearoa, but it has also been co-designed with my colleague Fiona Clapham Howard to be applied in other sectors as well.
Fiona Clapham Howard
Trustee / Lead Educator
Fiona has worked in the New Zealand mental health and addictions sector since 2004, predominantly in lived experience roles. She has led teams working in peer support, as well as in individual and systemic advocacy. She is an experienced peer support and advocacy trainer with a particular interest in exploring the impact of systems, structures, power imbalances, and the legacy left to survivors of childhood adversity and trauma.
Philip Chapman
Trustee / Chair Tautoko Tāne Aoteroa
I have worked in men’s health for over 30 years and currently operate the Male Room in Nelson, which has a focus on supporting male survivors and homeless people. As the Chair of Tautoko Tāne Aotearoa, I have supported the development of PPSA and its application to enhance the quality of our peer support services, which are an essential support service for survivors of sexual violence. As a trustee of the PPSA Trust, I am keen to see peer workers in other sectors also benefiting from the development of a framework that has been specifically designed for our New Zealand context.