OUR SERVICES

Individual Mentoring
Work collaboratively with our mentors
Pacific Youth Transition
​Services
Work with our
​youth transition workers
Residential Remand Care Education
TYMS teachers who operate across five homes
In-School Group Mentoring 
Get involved in our
​In-school programmes

What do we do?

                                          Individual Mentoring

Our individual mentoring programme is our core TYMS service. A male mentor is suitably matched with a young person, working with them to develop their academic, social, and basic life skills, as well as fostering their connections with their family, culture, and community. 
 A Personal Development Plan is developed at the onset, whereby the mentor works with their young person to identify their short-term goals to be achieved during the mentoring period, as well as long term goals that will help guide the young person’s long-term thinking. Our mentors also work closely with the young person’s whanau/family, teachers, social workers and other referrers during this period, to ensure everyone are on the same page, working collaboratively with the young person at the centre. 

  Pacific Youth Transition Services

The Pacific Youth Transition Service (PYTS) is a collaboration between Affirming Works and Tuilaepa Youth Mentoring Services. Our transition workers guide and support our young people who have been in state care to look towards the future in developing life skills i.e.
  • Identifying their strengths/interests to help them achieve their goals
  • Identifying/accessing adult services and helping them become confident in doing this independently
  • connecting them to their identity, culture, whanau and wider networks or support.

 Residential Remand Home Education & Pastoral Care 

TYMS partners with Ministry of Education and Oranga Tamariki to provide a unique and individualised education programme to rangatahi placed in supervised Remand homes across Auckland.  Through establishing a trust based relationship teachers motivate rangatahi to learn and see the value of learning in their life.  Teachers integrate numeracy and literacy into learning activities tailored to the interests and passions of the ranagatahi.  Our 'Learning by stealth' approach enables rangatahi achieve positive learning outcomes without even realising it - "Yo this isn't maths, maths isn't fun.  This is easy!".  Based on our understanding that 'life is learning' our teachers help reshape the way rangatahi see education often resetting past negative mindsets of education.  Our programme covers life skills topics such as career planning, CV building, driver’s license study, cultural identity, creative arts, physical well-being, goal setting, taonga carving, computer coding, entrepreneurship along with basic skills in numeracy, literacy, social studies, and science.  

 Healthy Relationships ​programme

TYMS Healthy Relationship programme is an 8-week in-school group mentoring program that teaches young people values such as kindness, respect, integrity and courage. These values enable them to build healthy and respectful relationships with family, peers, and wider community. At the same time, the program aims to foster a strengths-based school environment, where the young people themselves as well as their teachers learn to see the positives rather than the negatives, and to build on these.

bounce back programme

Bounce Back is a weekly programme we deliver in schools based around having healthy, respectful and resilient relationships with our family, peers and the wider community. With our trained facilitators, each group explores their strengths and habits that contribute towards building a resilient mindset. Each session consists of an interactive ice breaker, a reflective group discussion and an activity based on the theme of the week.

              Polyjammers Basketball Programme

​​Our Polyjammers Youth Basketball Programme is a 'Basketball Skills for Life' initiative, designed to support our Maori and Pacific boys to develop life-skills through social sport.

                               Jammers Academy 

The "Jammers Academy" is an adapted extension of our original Polyjammers Basketball programme. Due to the amount of uncertainty this year with organised sports, many Basketball competitions were either placed on hold or cancelled. Every week during and post lockdown our youth were desperate to play, and so we viewed this urge as an opportunity to start our own in-house Basketball development programme.
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