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Jade Speaks Up Educational Trust
Empowering tamariki with simple, effective tools to strengthen emotional resilience and 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.
A child without a voice in a violent home feels powerless and may struggle to realise their full potential.
"This is one of the most powerful lessons I learned through Jade Speaks Up. Adults face many stressors, and children caught in these situations need to know there is a trustworthy adult in their life who can understand and support them.
Completing this programme alongside teachers, aides, principals, child advocacy workers, and health professionals like myself helps build stronger, trusting relationships, allowing children to feel more connected and grounded. Many children need to develop resilience and coping skills in a safe environment, and school provides that space.
This programme offers practical strategies that empower both children and adults, so that when a child feels safe enough to disclose family violence, adults feel confident and equipped to listen, understand, and ensure the child’s voice is heard and appropriate action is taken."
Lisa Sell
Public Health Nurse
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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