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News: tagged with "families"

• Community education seminar from Dementia Canterbury

  Posted: Thursday, June 1, 2023 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: seminar, webinar, dementia, grief, wellbeing, families
  Join this community education seminar on responding to change, grief and loss with social worker and counsellor Elizabeth Hamilton. This seminar is specifically for family members and friends currently supporting a person with dementia

• Five Day Child Protection Studies Programme

  Posted: Wednesday, May 24, 2023 in: Training With tags: families, children, prevention, violence, abuse
  The Child Protection Studies Programme from Child Matters is the only specialised NZQA accredited (Level 3) child protection training on offer in New Zealand

• Cure Kids’ third State of Child Health Report spotlights urgent health priorities

  Posted: Wednesday, May 17, 2023 in: Resources and Information With tags: Report, child health, families, disease, care, health, inequality, equity
  Cure Kids media release: 16th May 2023 Cure Kids’ "State of Child Health in Aotearoa New Zealand" report reveals the inequitable and worsening burden of diseases, including respiratory conditions, and rheumatic fever and heart disease for our tamariki

• Sustainability enterprise helps Kiwi kids

  Posted: Wednesday, May 17, 2023 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: recycling, families, children, poverty
  Ripple provides essential clothing to Kiwi kids living in hardship, while reducing the massive impact textile waste has on our environment through a reuse, repair and recycling system

• Sign the petition for a Commissioner or Minister for family carers

  Posted: Wednesday, May 17, 2023 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: care, petition, families
  The NZ Carers Alliance is calling for a formal home in government for family, whānau, and aiga carers

• Get support from Tamaiti Healthy Homes

  Posted: Wednesday, March 29, 2023 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: housing, health, families, maori, pacific
  Te Puawaitanga ki Ōtautahi Trust and Tangata Atumotu Trust provide the Tamaiti Healthy Homes service for low income aiga and whānau who live in cold, damp and unhealthy homes

• Parents and educators need to prepare for return to school asthma flare ups

  Posted: Wednesday, January 25, 2023 in: Resources and Information With tags: children, families, education
  Asthma and Respiratory Foundation of NZ media release: 24th January 2023 As the new school year approaches, the Asthma and Respiratory Foundation NZ is advising parents and educators to be prepared for return to school asthma flare ups

• Look out for learners on the move

  Posted: Wednesday, January 25, 2023 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: road safety, children, families
  Selwyn District Council media release: 23rd January 2023 Everyone needs to plan ahead from the beginning of February, as 11,500 Selwyn students begin travelling back to school again

• Five ways to play in Christchurch this summer

  Posted: Wednesday, January 18, 2023 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: School Holidays, families, children, activities, recreation
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 16th January 2023 Spend some time with the kids in the sun and get outdoors this summer! Christchurch City Council Play Advocate Louise Van Tongeren has some ideas for the best ways to play in Christchurch and Banks Pen

• Five fantastic toddler-friendly walks in Christchurch

  Posted: Wednesday, January 11, 2023 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: walking, children, families, activities
  Looking to explore the outdoors with your littlies these holidays? A walk is an awesome way to spend family time together and get some exercise, as well as learn about nature.  Here are our top five toddler-friendly walks from around the city..

• Stretch your legs on Christchurch’s newest walking tracks

  Posted: Wednesday, November 16, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: families, environment, cycling, walking
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 14th November 2022 People will be able to enjoy four kilometres of new walking track when Christchurch City Council’s award winning stormwater basin in Hoon Hay opens to the public on Friday

• Peace Train moving to Botanic Gardens

  Posted: Thursday, September 29, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: recreation, families, activities
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 28th September 2022 Christchurch’s Peace Train will be chugging off from a new location in the Botanic Gardens from this Sunday

• Dream playground to become reality for Townsend Fields community

  Posted: Tuesday, August 30, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: recreation, planning, children, families, Community
  Waimakariri District Council media release: 29th August 2022 A flying fox, cycle track and picnic area were all on the wish list at Te Matauru School when Council’s Parks and Recreation team visited last November to get their thoughts on a new play space

• Expressions of interest for infant neuroprotective care workstream

  Posted: Wednesday, June 15, 2022 in: Vacancies With tags: vacancies, children, support, policy, families
  The Child Development and Disability Clinical Network are developing a workstream to explore the current status of the provision of neuroprotective and developmental care services delivered by allied health professionals (OT, PT and SLT) in the Neonatal I

• Report into family violence mortality strengthens Minister’s resolve

  Posted: Wednesday, June 8, 2022 in: Resources and Information With tags: Report, families, violence, abuse
  Beehive media release: 7th June 2022 Today’s release of the Family Violence Death Review Committee’s (FVDRC): ‘A duty to care’ report has been welcomed by the Minister for the Prevention of Family Violence and Sexual Violence, Hon Marama Davidson

• New pool fun a hit with parents and children

  Posted: Wednesday, May 25, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: pools, families, children, swimming, physical activity
  Selwyn District Council media release: 24th May 2022 Expectant mothers, new parents and young children have been flocking to the Selwyn Aquatic Centre to enjoy new classes helping them get active and have fun

• Council supports project to help young families at risk

  Posted: Wednesday, March 30, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: housing, families, funding, Community Groups
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 30th March 2022 A charitable organisation which plans to build a seven-unit affordable housing facility for vulnerable young families has been given a helping hand

• Online course: Introduction to Child Protection in New Zealand

  Posted: Thursday, February 3, 2022 in: Training With tags: children, abuse, violence, families
  Child Matters has released their first online course - Introduction to Child Protection in New Zealand. Every New Zealander should have a basic understanding of the issue of child abuse

• Government’s Family Package continues to deliver for New Zealanders

  Posted: Thursday, January 27, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: families, support, children, Report
  Beehive media release: 26th January 2022 The Families Package continues to deliver better outcomes and lift incomes for low- and middle-income whānau across the motu, with more than half of families being supported by the package, including over two third

• New inquiry into a fair start for all

  Posted: Wednesday, June 16, 2021 in: Resources and Information With tags: poverty, research, policy, families
  Productivity Commission media release: 15th June 2021 The Government has asked the New Zealand Productivity Commission - Te Kōmihana Whai Hua o Aotearoa to prepare the Terms of Reference for a new inquiry, aimed at finding ways to break the cycle of long-

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