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News: tagged with "families"

• Come along to the Strawberry Fair in Kaiapoi

  Posted: Thursday, December 7, 2023 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: Community, event, market, families
  Come along to the Kaiapoi Food Forest for a Strawberry Fair! This is a FREE event with gift stalls, food trucks, real fruit ice-cream, as well as live music, face painting and a bouncy castle. Date: Saturday 16th December 2023.Time: 11am to 2pm

• Connecting with passed loved ones this Christmas

  Posted: Wednesday, December 6, 2023 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: grief, Christmas, wellbeing, families
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 5th December 2023 Christchurch resident Sarah Robb understands that the holiday season may be a challenging time for those who have lost their loved ones. When Sarah was twenty, her father died in a sudden accident

• Kick off your Summer in Selwyn: A season of fun events and activities

  Posted: Wednesday, December 6, 2023 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: event, Community, summer, recreation, families
  Selwyn District Council media release: 5th December 2023 Summer in Selwyn is making a splash once again, bringing the community over 40 whānau-friendly events and activities from January to February 2024

• Volunteers need to understand experiences of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest for Māori living in rural areas

  Posted: Wednesday, August 2, 2023 in: Vacancies With tags: research, volunteers, maori, health, support, families
  Researchers at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) would like to understand the experiences of Māori who live rurally and experienced an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest within the past five (5) years, and their whānau

• Four popular events return to fill your July calendar

  Posted: Tuesday, June 27, 2023 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: event, Community, families, children, music, festival
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 26th June 2023 There’s lots to enjoy around Ōtautahi Christchurch over the month of July

• New programme connects people over sustainable kai

  Posted: Thursday, June 22, 2023 in: Resources and Information With tags: Food, awareness, waste, children, families, business, environment, gardens
  Keep New Zealand beautiful media release: 21st June 2023 Iconic charity Keep New Zealand Beautiful is launching their new Kai Connections programme - a fun, easy and educational way for students, whānau and friends to demonstrate commitment to kai pai (go

• More financial support for new parents

  Posted: Wednesday, June 21, 2023 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: families, children, parenting, finances
  Beehive media release: 19th June 2023 Paid parental leave entitlements will increase on 1st July 2023 - putting an additional $51 a week into the pockets of new parents or an additional $1327 for those taking the full 26 weeks of parental leave, Associate

• Listening to Families: Videos answering real-life questions

  Posted: Wednesday, June 21, 2023 in: Resources and Information With tags: families, children, resources, parenting
  It can be bewildering when a child or young person is going through a big health challenge. The Listening to Families team publish FREE videos that answer real-life questions from families on a range of topics - to provide timely self-paced support

• 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

• 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

• 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..

• 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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