ONLINE | Provider Connection Hui - Monday 8 December 2025
2025-12-08 09:30 - 11:00 (Pacific/Auckland) | Online – Zoom link will be emailed to you
Join us for the next provider online session.

🟪 Following the Parliamentary event we need to review the proposal for the Cross-Party Suicide Prevention Group, we will be providing a full update of PADA’s work since the event and creating space for networking and discussion.

🟦 We will be issuing formal invitations once again to the Minister for Mental Health, Matt Doocey, and to Ingrid Leary.

🟩 A full agenda will be circulated shortly.

The Zoom link will be sent 24 hours prior to the session to all registered attendees – please RSVP below.

ONLINE | Provider Connection Hui - Monday 9 February 2026
2026-02-09 09:30 - 11:00 | Online – Zoom link will be emailed to you
Perinatal Mental Health Sector Hui
Focus: Strategic Communications & Public Narrative to Support the Cross-Party Suicide Prevention Briefing
Host: Perinatal Anxiety & Depression Aotearoa (PADA)
Date: 9 February 2026
Time: 9.30am -11.00am
Location: Zoom
AGENDA
Karakia & Whakawhanaungatanga
Purpose & Desired Outcomes
Brief Progress Update Since Last Hui
Draft Briefing Cross-Party Suicide Prevention Briefing: Final Sense Check
Strategic Communications & Public Narrative (special guest speaker)
Defining the Shared Narrative
Storytelling: Ethics, Consent & Cultural Safety (special guest speaker)
Closing Reflections & Karakia

PADA Rainbow Series | Takatāpui - Monday 23 February 2026 - Ōtautahi | Christchurch
2026-02-23 09:00 - 15:30 | Raupō Room at Papa Hou, 4 Rolleston Avenue, Christchurch, Christchurch, 8013, New Zealand
These seminars provide professional development for healthcare providers supporting families affected by perinatal distress related to pregnancy, childbirth and early parenthood.
Join us at the TAKATĀPUI seminar for our PADA Rainbow Series to explore how we can co-create a maternity system that honours the diverse journeys of Takatāpui and Rainbow parents. Together, we can ensure every whānau feels valued, seen, and supported.
Takatāpui individuals and Rainbow communities deserve a maternity system that recognises their mana and supports their journey to build their whānau. Research shows that at least 20% of trans individuals aspire to have tamariki (Trans Pregnancy Care Project), and this number is bound to grow when care becomes genuinely inclusive, culturally responsive, and mana-enhancing.
Midwives can attract Continuing Education Hours.
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:
Professor Elizabeth Kerekere (she/her/ia)
Scout Barbour-Evans (they/them)
Natalie Allen (she/he/they) and Tash Wharerau
Ngā mihi to Rāta Foundation, The Tindall Foundation, and The Kind Foundation for their financial support towards this seminar. We could not do it without you!

Spaces are limited, you must register below to attend.
REGISTRATION OPTIONS
General Admission/Non-Member: $125
PADA Members/Full-time Students: $100
For any queries, please email admin@pada.nz

Neurodiversity Workshop - Tuesday 10 March 2026 - Te Whanganui-a-Tara | Wellington
2026-03-10 09:30 - 15:30 | Venue TBC, Wellington, New Zealand
NEURODIVERSITY WORKSHOP
Perspectives of Neurodivergent Parents in Birth, Pregnancy and First Year of Baby’s Life
This workshop provides resources, education and strategies on common neurodevelopment conditions by exploring how we can help those effected by mental illness in the perinatal period focusing on the role of neuro-difference has on perceptions of self, others and the future.
💜💚💙
Presented by Marina Elisara and Hannah Cleaver-Marshall, with special guest Amy Castle, PADA GM.
Limited tickets – you must purchase below to attend.

ONLINE | Provider Connection Hui - Monday 18 May 2026
2026-05-18 09:30 - 11:00 | Online – Zoom link will be emailed to you
AGENDA TO COME

Please RSVP below, and a Zoom link will be sent closer to the date.

ONLINE | Provider Connection Hui - Monday 17 August 2026
2026-08-17 09:30 - 11:00 | Online – Zoom link will be emailed to you

ONLINE | Provider Connection Hui - Monday 16 November 2026
2026-11-16 09:30 - 11:00 | Online – Zoom link will be emailed to you
