OUR SERVICES

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

individual mentoring

Academic & Life Skills one-to-one

Pacific youth transition services

Transition to adulthood

residential remand learning

TYMS Teachers across five homes

our programmes

healthy Relationships programme

Healthy & Respectful values
In-School Programme

bounce back programme

Covid Response Initiative 
Resilience building
​ In-School Programme

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)

'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)