This report outlines key findings of a Health Research
Council-funded project, Working on Wellbeing with Young
People, Mahitahi ki ngā Rangitahi i te Hauora (18/651).

Our findings draw on interviews conducted in 2019
and 2020 with rangatahi aged between 16 and 20,
living in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland). We sought
out young people with diverse experiences and
identities in relation to culture, gender, sexuality,
class, disability and educational stage and
trajectory. Interviews were open-ended, with plenty
of space for connection and exploration to ensure
that the ideas, experiences and issues our analysis
foregrounds aligned well with rangatahi priorities.
Our analysis builds from these conversations and
has also been shaped and refined through wānanga
and hui processes with rangatahi during 2021. Our
Report findings are presented in two parts. First,
in Hāpai te Hauora, we explore rangatahi Māori
perspectives. Following on from this, we consider
insights from a range of tauiwi young people in the
section titled That’s my version of wellbeing. (From the executive surrmary). Record #8140