Practice Foundations is a monthly public sector community of practice hosted online by The Auckland Co-Design Lab and Healthy Families Far North.
Practice Foundations focuses on the opportunities and challenges that exist across the public sector. In our sessions we explore topics, tools and resources that public sector practitioners have told us are the most useful in building practice and tooling them up for implementing complex and ambitious work.
Wednesday 7 May, 9:30-11:00am
Place-based evidence with Dr Ingrid Burkett
Wednesday 4 June, 9:30-11:00am
Te Tokotoru
Wednesday 2 July, 9:30-11:00am
Wednesday 6 August, 9:30-11:00am
Wednesday 3 September, 9:30-11:00am
Wednesday 1 October, 9:30-11:00am
Wednesday 5 November, 9:30-11:00am
Most of our sessions are recorded. You can find the recordings, and any accompanying slide decks, resources and shared links, below.
Realising the Potential of the First 2000 Days: Lessons from Community-led Systems Approaches in the United States
There is increasing recognition that investing in the early years is the most effective way to get upstream of our most pressing social challenges. But how do we approach the ‘first 2000 days’ as a policy issue? What can we learn from other countries about what it takes to unleash the power of locally-led solutions?
In this session, Aimee Hadrup (Manager, Tamariki Wellbeing at The Southern Initiative) reported back on her Harkness Fellowship, where she engaged with a range of innovative early years focussed place-based initiatives across the US, as well as visited teams at leading academic institutions including the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, the Stanford University Centre on Early Childhood and the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities.