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At BTI, you will learn from staff who are experienced teachers and educators, researchers, practitioners, health workers and graduates themselves. Many have worked in private practice, for public institutions and for universities in Aotearoa New Zealand and overseas.
Biography
Tauha joined the School of Social Practice at BTI in 2020. He is a registered social worker with an extensive and diverse range of work experience, which includes: youth work, alcohol and drug rehabilitation, medical social work, community development, mental health social work, and social work education. His work with children and youth began with designing and facilitating re-employment programmes for long-term unemployed youth, after which he facilitated Alternative Education programmes with youth excluded from the mainstream education system. He has worked within a children’s residential care setting, and was the National Trainer for the Children’s Health Camp movement, facilitating social work training programmes across seven regional sites.
Tauha has been a Social Work Kaiako (educator) for Te Wananga o Aotearoa. He has a passion for supporting organisations to embed tikanga Māori as a praxis into the philosophy and practice of staff, and he is enjoying the opportunity at BTI to weave this teaching together with his faith and love for God.
Originally from Te Tairawhiti, Tauha grew up in Mt Maunganui. He belongs to the Whakatōhea, Ngati Porou, Te Aitanga a Hauiti, Rongowhakaata and Te Aitanga a Mahaki. He and his wife Gayle live in Tauranga Moana and are blessed to have five adult children and 9, soon to be 10 mokopuna.
At BTI, you will learn from staff who are experienced teachers and educators, researchers, practitioners, health workers and graduates themselves. Many have worked in private practice, for public institutions and for universities in Aotearoa New Zealand and overseas.
Biography
Tauha joined the School of Social Practice at BTI in 2020. He is a registered social worker with an extensive and diverse range of work experience, which includes: youth work, alcohol and drug rehabilitation, medical social work, community development, mental health social work, and social work education. His work with children and youth began with designing and facilitating re-employment programmes for long-term unemployed youth, after which he facilitated Alternative Education programmes with youth excluded from the mainstream education system. He has worked within a children’s residential care setting, and was the National Trainer for the Children’s Health Camp movement, facilitating social work training programmes across seven regional sites.
Tauha has been a Social Work Kaiako (educator) for Te Wananga o Aotearoa. He has a passion for supporting organisations to embed tikanga Māori as a praxis into the philosophy and practice of staff, and he is enjoying the opportunity at BTI to weave this teaching together with his faith and love for God.
Originally from Te Tairawhiti, Tauha grew up in Mt Maunganui. He belongs to the Whakatōhea, Ngati Porou, Te Aitanga a Hauiti, Rongowhakaata and Te Aitanga a Mahaki. He and his wife Gayle live in Tauranga Moana and are blessed to have five adult children and 9, soon to be 10 mokopuna.
Tauha joined the School of Social Practice at BTI in 2020. He is a registered social worker with an extensive and diverse range of work experience, which includes: youth work, alcohol and drug rehabilitation, medical social work, community development, mental health social work, and social work education. His work with children and youth began with designing and facilitating re-employment programmes for long-term unemployed youth, after which he facilitated Alternative Education programmes with youth excluded from the mainstream education system. He has worked within a children’s residential care setting, and was the National Trainer for the Children’s Health Camp movement, facilitating social work training programmes across seven regional sites.
Tauha has been a Social Work Kaiako (educator) for Te Wananga o Aotearoa. He has a passion for supporting organisations to embed tikanga Māori as a praxis into the philosophy and practice of staff, and he is enjoying the opportunity at BTI to weave this teaching together with his faith and love for God.
Originally from Te Tairawhiti, Tauha grew up in Mt Maunganui. He belongs to the Whakatōhea, Ngati Porou, Te Aitanga a Hauiti, Rongowhakaata and Te Aitanga a Mahaki. He and his wife Gayle live in Tauranga Moana and are blessed to have five adult children and 9, soon to be 10 mokopuna.