Suicide is a complex issue with many contributing causes, and the solutions required to prevent it are broad and far-reaching. Te Mauri The Life Force I Rangatahi suicide report steps into this complexity and asks why rangatahi, compared with non-Māori young people, have higher rates of death by suicide and what Aotearoa New Zealand is doing, and what else we could do, to prevent rangatahi from taking their lives by suicide.

Te Mauri supports the research that connects the effects of colonisation and historical trauma to the social, political and structural setting within which rangatahi Māori are living. Further, it recommends that Te Tiriti o Waitangi is adopted as a framework for policy and relationships, and as a standard for addressing the power, resourcing and constitutional imbalance experienced by rangatahi Māori, whānau, hapū and iwi.

Te Mauri promotes promising practice in prevention and postvention in Aotearoa New Zealand where 'by Māori, for Māori' activities are highlighted as examples of how community-led initiatives can provide support for rangatahi and their whānau. It supports a call to funders to invest in and redirect power to communities, to self-determine, lead and build their own capability in supporting their own whānau, hapū and iwi. (From the website). Record #6906