CARE

CARE is a global hub for justice-based communication research that uses participatory and culture-centered methodologies to develop community-driven com­munication solutions for building and sustaining human health and wellbeing.

CORE PRINCIPLE

CARE believes that communities are their own best problem-solvers. We work closely with communities at the margins, worker-led unions, community organisations, social movements, policymakers, programme planners and evaluators in developing culturally-cen­tered solutions. The culture-centered process catalyzes community members at the margins to create and participate in communication infrastructures, expressing their voices in building solutions to the problems they conceptual­ize. Past and ongoing work of CARE explores culture-centered social change in solidarity with communities experiencing deprivation, gender diverse communities, indigenous communities, racial and ethnic minority communities, religious minority communities, sex workers, domestic workers, low-wage migrant workers, workers in health threatening industries, and workers in the gig economy.

GOALS

CARE seeks to:

• Create a strategic research core for the social scientific study of international health, development, and social change communication, driven by the cultural worldviews and knowledge systems of local communities at the margins;
• Develop culture-centered preventive and structurally transformative interventions through the participation of local commu­nities in democratic processes for imagining health and wellbeing based on their everyday lived experiences;
• Develop and sustain justice-based knowledge generating tools and resources in communities at the margins;
• Participate in solidarity with communities at the margins as they imagine community-anchored, place-based democratic processes of social change;
• Create community-academic-activist connections that sustain community-led interventions for health and wellbeing;
• Disseminate the core principles and lessons learned from the culture-centered interventions being carried out in communities at the margins across the globe;
• Build community-owned health and social change communication research capacity internationally by creating an international training hub for the next generation of health and social change communica­tion theorists, researchers, practitioners, community organizers, advocates, activists, and policymakers.

• CARE Interventions-Pā Tamariki: Communities coming together to build community-led social cohesion initiativesDecember 20, 2022
• CARE 10th Anniversary Conference – 28th November – 2nd December 2022November 21, 2022
• CARE Director, Professor Mohan J. Dutta, Massey University named in the latest World’s Top 2% Scientists List by Stanford UniversityNovember 11, 2022
• CARE White Paper – Issue #10 Vol 2: Connecting across cultures: A framework for anti-racist strategies in Aotearoa New Zealand rooted in Te TiritiOctober 31, 2022
• CARE White Paper – Issue #16 Replacing Colonial Theft and Capitalism by LunchtimeOctober 21, 2022
• CARE Activist In Residence – Catherine Delahunty | 10-14 October 2022 at Massey University – Manawatū campusOctober 3, 2022

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