At The Workshop, we research and develop ways to communicate with people to help shift their mindsets to support changes that make the most difference to unlock whānau and children from poverty in Aotearoa New Zealand. This includes:

• deepening people’s understanding of the upstream causes of poverty

• shifting mindsets

• sparking hope in advocates to drive change.

An important aspect of our work is measuring its efficacy and impact. This impact report, developed for our PMP community, focuses on one case study – our work to shift mindsets about income support and benefits. This work has contributed to change in the public discourse and at the government level, resulting in increased benefits. In this report, we show the contribution and impact of our work on family wellbeing. In just the first two and a half years of operation, we have had some crucial wins. However, we have not finished this work. In this impact report, we show our lessons and suggest directions for the future.

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