Attached are post-event notes from the Pillars 2023 Youth Led Hui, hosted by the Pillars youth advisory panel: “Ngā Rangatira Mo Apōpō (Leaders for Tomorrow). The notes have been posted on the St Luke's website (with the panel's permission) in honour of sharing their kōrero with others in the progressive justice space.

Ngā Rangatira Mo Apōpō are a group of outstanding rangatira who are all members of the Pillars alumni community. They are aged from 16 to 24 and have lived experience of parental and whānau incarceration.  

Throughout 2023 they worked together in some impressive spaces and places, including contributing their thoughts and ideas to:

• Upcoming youth mental health policy renewal
• Effective youth crime intervention and support research
• Oranga Tamariki’s caregiver policy renewal
• Calls for legislation to make support for children of incarcerated parents’ standard practice.
• What does transformative justice look like in 2024 and beyond?

These notes capture their thoughts and ideas.