TANGATA WHENUA SOCIAL WORKERS ASSOCIATION FORMED (Waatea News, Nov 20,2009)
Maori social workers have formed their own association.
About 100 of the country's 1000 Maori social workers gathered at Pukaki Marae in Mangere day to launch Tangata Whenua Social Workers Association.
Kaumatua Taotahi Pihama says the group will support Maori working for mainstream and iwi providers, and help train new kaimahi to operate effectively with Maori whanau.
He says it will build on work done by previous generations since the first Maori graduate social worker, John Rangihau, in the 1950s.
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