Our Resources

Aro ki te Hā Reflective Journal

Audience: Youth & Whānau

Taken from our youth programme of the same name, our interactive Aro ki te Hā journal resource gives young people the opportunity to explore their ideas around respectful relationships. Since the introduction of the programme in early 2023, Aro ki te Hā has helped rainbow rangatahi to learn ways of being in safe and respectful relationships with themselves and others.

This resource is broken down into six key sections covering the topics of connection, consent, communication, conflict and community care, with information and ideas to read, as well as lots of exercises to get young people thinking about each idea and how it relates to them. The resource can be used independent from taking part in an Aro ki te Hā course, and all participants in a course will also receive one. While designed with rainbow young people in mind, people of all ages and backgrounds are welcome to utilise this resource.

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Ending Rainbow-Focused Bullying and Discrimination

Audience: Primary, Intermediate and Secondary Schools

This interactive workbook was created with the support of the Ministry of Education to help schools address and prevent the different types of bullying that takatāpui and rainbow young people across Aotearoa New Zealand have told us they experience. Building on existing frameworks such as Bullying Free New Zealand’s roadmap, this workbook aims to build confidence in identifying rainbow-focused bullying and its impacts, creating rainbow-inclusive learning environments to counter bullying, and building strategies within bullying prevention plans and policies to ensure rainbow students are acknowledged and cared for. The information in this resource is relevant to all primary, intermediate and secondary schools in Aotearoa.

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Creating Rainbow-Inclusive School Policies and Procedures

Audience: Schools

This resource can be used by school boards, school leaders, and staff members to identify both strengths in existing policy frameworks, and areas where processes and guidelines can be updated or added. It can also be used to provide starting points or ideas for further discussion. Schools are encouraged to adapt the information to align with their kaupapa, values, and commitments.

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Making Schools Safer

Audience: Youth & Whānau, Schools

This resource provides information and guidance for schools to create safer and more inclusive environments for their trans, gender diverse and intersex students.

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Additional online resources to Making Schools Safer are available to download here:

Gender transition support plan template

Responding to community concerns

Starting and Strengthening Rainbow Diversity Groups

Audience: Schools, Youth

This resource is aimed at students who have or would like to start a rainbow diversity group or queer straight alliance in their school.

The resource contains information such as how to start a group, what to do in your group, facilitation tips, information for staff, examples of other groups and lots more.

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Starting and Strengthening Rainbow Diversity Groups

Audience: Schools

This resource aims to support teachers, guidance counsellors, and other school staff who support rainbow diversity groups/QSAs in their school. The resource covers background information about rainbow communities in Aotearoa, the role of staff supporting a QSA, information about advocating for the group, safety and culture, and working within your school’s culture.

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Legal Rights at School

Audience: Youth & Whānau, Schools

Rainbow young people often experience discrimination at school, which can take many different forms. This resource aims to give you an overview of your legal rights at school, covering both issues that might affect an individual, and a queer straight alliance/rainbow diversity group.

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Join this Chariot

Audience: Schools, Churches, Christian organisations

This resource aims to support Christian faith-based schools to be welcoming and safe places for rainbow rangatahi. We also hope this resource will be useful for mainstream schools in communities where a significant proportion of the community holds Christian beliefs.

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Supporting Aotearoa’s Rainbow People – A Mental Health Guide

Audience: Schools, Mental Health Professionals

Rainbow people in New Zealand face a range of complex issues, and mental health professionals don’t always receive specific training about their needs and experiences.

This guide is for anyone who provides mental health support in Aotearoa, including (but not limited to) counsellors, psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, tohunga (Māori healers), social workers, mental health nurses, and GPs. It will also be helpful for youth workers, group facilitators, and peer supporters.

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Pōwhiri Guidebook

Audience: Youth & Whānau

InsideOUT’s Pōwhiri Guide Book was created as an inclusive resource to support young people to understand what a pōwhiri is, and how a pōwhiri can be inclusive of takatāpui, whakawhahine, tangata ira tane and trans and gender diverse people given that gender roles are involved.

The resource is free to be shared and used as it is, however we recommend always checking in with tangata whenua at the marae you are visiting around their inclusion/knowledge around gender diversity. Each marae may have different understandings, and it is best to have a conversation about this early on. You are welcome to use this resource as a tool to support these conversations, and we also recommend the resources at takatapui.nz

Activating Our Values

Insights from our staff and volunteers in the Young Activists Project

InsideOUT Kōaro was one of six youth-led groups and campaigns to take part in the Young Activists project, led by a team of researchers from the University of Otago between 2018 and 2022.

As part of this project, InsideOUT Kōaro and the research team collaboratively developed Activating Our Values, a resource that provides a snapshot of the key values InsideOUT Kōaro staff and volunteers identified throughout the project’s interviews.

Some of the main values that interview participants talked about include fostering community, flexibility, reciprocity, and centring self-determination.

This resource was written to encourage other volunteer-led or non-profit organisations in Aotearoa and beyond to document and share how they enact, activate and communicate their values.

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