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Resources and Information

Research, reference documents and other documents of use to Healthy Christchurch signatories and others.

• Results of Community Survey on Family Violence

  Posted: Wednesday, April 08, 2015 in: Resources and Information With tags: violence, families, survey
  How much does our community know about family violence? The results are out for the Canterbury family Violence Collaboration’s latest Community Survey! The survey was undertaken by the Prevention Work Stream in August 2014

• KiwiSaver changes: good news for first home buyers

  Posted: Thursday, April 02, 2015 in: Resources and Information With tags: housing, funding
  A series of changes are set to kick in for first home buyers from 1st April 2015 with the introduction of Kiwisaver HomeStart.  The new first home buyer packages have been designed to help people achieve the dream of buying their own home

• Aotearoa Youth Voices Network

  Posted: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 in: Resources and Information With tags: youth, community engagement
  Aotearoa Youth Voices is a network of young people that connects young people to opportunities in their community

• New resources encouraging people to Get Their Affairs In Order

  Posted: Friday, March 06, 2015 in: Resources and Information With tags: resources, planning
  Three new resources are available to encourage and guide people to think about their life and death; to get their personal and business affairs in order; and to reduce the stress, work and heartache for loved ones left behind

• Treaty of Waitangi: Questions and Answers updated for 2015

  Posted: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 in: Resources and Information With tags: maori, resources, race relations
  This 56 page publication is the revised and updated fourth edition of Treaty of Waitangi: Questions and Answers - first published in 1989 by Network Waitangi

• Supporting Vulnerable Tenancies Programme

  Posted: Wednesday, February 04, 2015 in: Resources and Information With tags: Community Groups, support, housing
  The Supporting Vulnerable Tenancies (SVT) programme has been established to support people who are having difficulty sustaining their housing

• Ministry of Awesome: Blogs by TomorrowWalker

  Posted: Wednesday, October 08, 2014 in: Resources and Information With tags: Community Groups
  TomorrowWalker is a blog that focuses on the intimate story of all things quirky and cool in Christchurch. TomorrowWalker was created by our Awesome UC interns Georgina Boyce and Stephanie Campbell

• Being breastfeeding friendly in early childhood education

  Posted: Wednesday, October 08, 2014 in: Resources and Information With tags: women, children, resources
  This breastfeeding resource was launched last week.  The pamphlet is a collaboration between Te Puawaitanga and University of Canterbury. It is intended to support women to breastfeeding for longer

• Presentation on Dementia Friendly Christchurch

  Posted: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 in: Resources and Information With tags: healthy cities, dementia, presentation, older people
  Dementia researcher Karen Smith delivered a presentation to about 70 people in two sessions in Christchurch in September 2014. Karen's research was a jointly funded project with Age Concern and the Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB)

• The Blokes Book is now a smartphone app

  Posted: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 in: Resources and Information With tags: resources, mens health, men
  The Blokes Book is now available as a smart phone app. Please send this link on to people you know with a smart phone. Is your info on it? We'd love to have suggestions for improvement

• Te Puawaitanga Ki Otautahi Trust housing survey

  Posted: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 in: Resources and Information With tags: housing, survey, research
  Housing is a major issue in the post-earthquake environment in Canterbury

• Child Poverty in Aotearoa: Tackling Inequality 2014 series

  Posted: Thursday, June 26, 2014 in: Resources and Information With tags: children, poverty
  Don't miss this great series on child poverty! The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) would like to remind you that all six episodes of this great series on child poverty in NZ are available to watch online via CPAG's YouTube channel

• The Glenn Inquiry: Family violence victims say help failing them

  Posted: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 in: Resources and Information With tags: families, violence, children, research
  Excerpt from The Glenn Inquiry media release: Monday 16th June 2014 People most affected by child abuse and domestic violence are urging the whole country to adopt zero tolerance to violence and are calling for an overhaul of agencies they say are failin

• Funding available for Canterbury waste minimising projects

  Posted: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 in: Resources and Information With tags: funding, sustainability
  The Sustainable Initiatives Fund Trust (SIFT) is a Canterbury-based publicly funded charitable trust that provides vital financial assistance to innovative waste minimisation projects meeting our criteria

• Connect with your neighbours on Neighbourly website

  Posted: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 in: Resources and Information With tags: community engagement
  Neighbourly is a free and private neighbourhood website for New Zealand designed to foster interaction and conversation between neighbours and community organisations

• Results from Rainbow Communities Vision Workshop

  Posted: Thursday, June 05, 2014 in: Resources and Information With tags: community engagement, survey, sexual health, recovery
  The Uprising Trust (in association with CERA) held a consultation “Share and Queer Idea" workshop with the rainbow communities of greater Christchurch in November 2013

• Nutrients may help treat people with mental illnesses

  Posted: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 in: Resources and Information With tags: mental health, Lectures, research, nutrition
  University of Canterbury media release: 22 May 2014 Nutrients do help treat some people with mental illnesses, a University of Canterbury researcher says

• How to Build Good Habits and Make Them Stick

  Posted: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 in: Resources and Information With tags: mental health, mental wellbeing
  Taking a long term view of success is critical, and it doesn’t take a psychologist to tell you that discipline is how you get from Point A to the sometimes elusive Point B. Or as Aristotle would so aptly put it… We are what we repeatedly do

• Ageing alone: Loneliness and the ‘Oldest Old’

  Posted: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 in: Resources and Information With tags: research, mental wellbeing, older people
  Loneliness causes misery and poor quality of life for too many people, but it is the oldest old – the over 85s – who are most badly affected. Nearly half of this age group experience loneliness some or most of the time

• Resilience Within: A short guide to resilience for NGOs

  Posted: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 in: Resources and Information With tags: resources, resilience, Community Groups, Community development
  A booklet has been prepared to support NGOs and other not-for-profit organisations in developing and sustaining organisational resilience.  NGO's are crucial to society, supporting those most in need

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