Tuilaepa Youth Mentoring Service (TYMS)
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Tuilaepa Youth Mentoring Services

Our Vision: For Pacific and Maori youth to feel a sense of pride and belonging ​in our communities living their full potential.

Our Mission: To break the cycle of disengagement.

OUR SERVICES

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Individual Mentoring
Work collaboratively with our mentors
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Pacific Youth Transition
​Services
Work with our
​youth transition workers
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Residential Remand Care Education
Teachers who operate across five homes
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In-School Group Mentoring
Get involved in our
​In-school programmes
OUR SERVICES
WHO ARE WE?
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Dale Rasmussen (General Manager) & Robson Tavita (Founder/Head of Advocacy)
Tuilaepa Youth Mentoring Services (TYMS) is a Pacific-led cultural and relationship-based intervention service that provides mentoring, advocacy and support for primarily Maori and Pacific youth, and their families.

​Robson Tavita founded TYMS to address the need he saw in his community to support young people to get the education they needed to succeed.
The "Tuilaepa" name is in honour of Robson's late father, Tuilaepa Ropisone Tavita, who dedicated this life to making sure his family grew up understanding the importance of honesty, integrity, loyalty and a good work ethic. These are the values that underpin all of our work that we do with our young people today.

Our Values: Empathy, Integrity, Respect, Wellbeing, Kindness, Positivity & Aiga (family/whanau)

our services

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individual mentoring

Academic & Life Skills one-to-one
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Pacific youth transition services

Transition to adulthood
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residential remand learning

TYMS Teachers across five homes

our programmes

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healthy Relationships programme

Healthy & Respectful values
In-School Programme

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bounce back programme

Covid Response Initiative 
Resilience building
​ In-School Programme
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polyjammers community basketball

Community Basketball
providing access to mentoring through sport

Jammers After-School Basketball Development

Mentoring through Sport
In-School Programme

'Moana Tautau'

Individual mentoring for
​Pacific Learners
(via Auckland Secondary Schools)
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'Mamanu'

Intensive 5-day Cultural Community Programme
​(ethnic specific) 

'Ofaga'

Weekly after-school Cultural programme
​(via Secondary Schools) 

'Continuity to Care'

Post-care for residential remand 

TYMS Sport & Life SKills Programme

Life Skills Workshop (In-School) accompanied by mentoring through sport (after-school) 

What Our Clients Are Saying

Our Location
Find us at 644 Swanson Road, Swanson, Auckland
“If I can just affirm all the great progress that our boys are showing at school in their confidence, physical health, and their learning. Much of which is attributable to the great work that their mentor is doing."

"TYMS helped me grow as a person. They helped me understand a few things that no one else was willing to help me understand, and help me see through things that no one else could." 

"Watching my son grow in the time that his mentor has been involved with him, aw bro it's been amazing. Without his mentor, my son wouldn't even be this young man that people are now seeing before their eyes. He's not out getting himself into trouble, bullying others, or hurting girls. My son came home one day after his session with the mentor and he said, 'I'm so happy you got me help mum'".

Contact Us 

office@tyms.org.nz
099712746
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  • Home
  • ABOUT US
    • Our Board of Trustees
    • Our Team >
      • In Loving Memory
  • What do we do?
    • Academic Mentoring
    • TYMS Transition to Adulthood
    • Residential Remand Learning
    • Moana Tautua
    • Healthy Relationships Programme
    • Basketball (Polyjammers)
    • Cultural Programmes (Mamanu/Ofaga)
    • Polyjam Classic (Fundraiser)
    • Past Programmes >
      • Trade School Program
    • News & Events
    • Learning & evaluation >
      • Stories of change
      • Blog
  • Our supporters
    • Key Supporters
    • Food Providers
  • Contact Us
  • Mentor Portal
    • Activity Bank
    • Weekly Victories