Get Involved
Be part of what we're building.
COS I MATTER NZ is building a community of informed, prepared and persistent people — while working to bring lived experience into conversations about how health, disability and aged-care systems can work better.
Whether you have lived experience, care for or advocate for someone you love, work within these systems, or simply believe things can be better, there are different ways to get involved.
Founding Members
Be part of COS I MATTER from the beginning.
Founding Membership is for individuals, families, whānau, carers and supporters who believe people should be better equipped to advocate effectively and that lived experience should have a stronger voice in the systems that affect people's lives.
As a Founding Member, you'll become part of the early COS I MATTER community and help support the development and growth of our advocacy education and wider systems-change work.
Your Founding Membership includes access to the COS I MATTER Advocacy Programme when it launches.
Use it. Gift it. Pay it forward.
- Use it — access the Advocacy Programme yourself and strengthen your own advocacy knowledge and skills.
- Gift it — give your programme access to someone you know who may benefit from it.
- Pay it forward — allow your programme place to be passed on through COS I MATTER to a person or family who may need the support but may not otherwise be able to access it.
You don't have to personally need advocacy support to become a Founding Member. You can simply believe in what we're building and help make that support available to someone else.
Founding Membership opening soon.
Interested? Select Founding Membership in the form below.
Founding Alliance Partners
Partner with us to create greater impact.
Meaningful systems change cannot happen in isolation.
COS I MATTER is building relationships with organisations, businesses, professionals and community leaders who share our commitment to stronger advocacy, lived-experience-informed practice and systems that put people first.
Founding Alliance Partners will help strengthen the reach, sustainability and impact of COS I MATTER while becoming part of a growing network committed to meaningful change.
Partnership may include financial support, professional expertise, collaboration, community connection or other forms of aligned contribution.
Founding Alliance Partnership information is available on request.
Interested? Select Founding Alliance Partnership in the form below.
Workshops & Advocacy Programme
Learn to advocate from a stronger position.
Our workshops and developing Advocacy Programme are designed to help individuals, families and whānau better understand rights, processes and systems — and develop the practical skills needed to advocate effectively.
Our approach is grounded in:
Informed. Prepared. Persistent.
The full COS I MATTER Advocacy Programme is currently in development, with workshops and learning opportunities being introduced as we grow.
Select Workshops & Advocacy Programme below if you'd like to receive updates.
Stay Connected
You don't have to join anything to be part of the conversation.
If COS I MATTER's work resonates with you, you can simply stay connected.
We'll keep you informed about upcoming workshops, the Advocacy Programme, advocacy initiatives, opportunities to participate and the wider systems-change work of COS I MATTER NZ.
Select Staying Connected below to keep in touch.
Connect with COS I MATTER
Interested in getting involved?
Tell us how you'd like to connect and we'll keep you informed as opportunities become available.
Urgent situations
We do not provide emergency or crisis services. If there is immediate risk to safety or wellbeing, please contact emergency services or the appropriate statutory agency.
Every voice matters.
COS I MATTER began with lived experience, but it was never intended to remain one family's story.
By equipping people to advocate, bringing lived experience into the conversation and building relationships with those who believe systems can do better, we can create impact that reaches far beyond any one individual or family.
Informed. Prepared. Persistent.