THMCT service objectives respond to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the need to prevent or mitigate the impact of external threats to whānau, hapū, iwi, and Māori communities as a response to COVID-19 pandemic.   

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought new challenges for us all, to maintain a healthy lifestyle, quality of life, and well-being. Preliminary evidence has suggested that higher odds of both mortality and severity of the COVID-19 are closely associated with unhealthy lifestyle behaviours. Thus, to contribute to this challenging global situation. 

Rongoā Māori is informed by a body of knowledge that has, as its core, the enhancement of Māori wellbeing. In this way, Rongoā Māori differs from a Western medical paradigm, whose focus is primarily the absence of health and wellbeing and treatments/interventions to return to a state of health. Traditional healing is formulated in a Māori cultural context, in which THMCT delivers services that include Mana Moutuhake (autonomy, identity, and self-actualisation).  Traditional Rongoā Māori is where THMCT has invested, Te Houtaewa footprint, to contribute various services into Te Tai Tokerau communities.