The Ministry of health have made available some information around helping your whanau with vaccination discussions.
They’ve also established an information site to help with those conversations.
And Happy 30th Anniversary of UNCROC, Stand Tu Maia is delighted that the Prime Minister has today announced that the government will recommit to the Children’s Convention. It signals a real commitment to putting the rights and wellbeing of children at the centre of government policy and action.
The Childrens’s Commission has released a handy pocket edition of the convention, including in te reo. You can find it here https://www.occ.org.nz/publications/resources/uncrc-30th-edition?fbclid=IwAR2Qn_qT59pl_2A1k7i5X_cTFc0XLABAV7OEEnUbm0208RE6d2yGQLLhFd0
Stand has released our 2019 Annual Report.
Once again our Annual Report is lovingly designed and published by our friends and supporters at Insight Creative New Zealand.
The completion of our very first Theraplay Parent Training – thanks to the parents who all showed incredible courage and insight in their reflections much respect to them all. Thanks also to Kelvin Love and Tony Kalauta who supported the program preparation and delivery. Amazing mahi!
Christchurch will be doing more of these workshops - see the flyer below for more information.
Our 2018 Annual report is ready for reading!
Some of the boys getting stuck into some hand-on STEM from the Northern village education unit. A little inspiration can easily spark a life long interest.
Thanks to our wonderful volunteer Walt at Stand Christchurch, we will very shortly have a chess board. The children await with eager anticipation!
Team Taha conquered the maunga on Tuesday - from Poho right to the top. 30 seconds into it and there was complaining of sore legs but both boys showed resilience and smashed it.
You can see more about the Challenge on their Facebook Page
The kids in Christchurch have been making their own tie-dye shirts, beautiful stuff!
One of our teachers at the Northern village got this lovely letter from one of the tamariki on a recent intake
You might not know that each of our villages has a complete school to work with the kids on their education when they're with us. This kind of letter makes it all worthwhile.
The children from Midland’s Intake #1 (with a little bit of help from the Therapeutic Care and Education team) have made these four beautiful, huge murals to brighten up our walls in the village. Aren’t they spectacular?
Frost on the boardwalk, snow on mountains, fog in the valley, early morning sunshine... stunning morning.
Our residential services in Otaki and Roxburgh have now shut down operations. Our community social workers are still working from these locations and will continue to help and engage with our families in need, but the rooms and corridors that have echoed with the sounds of children's laughter for decades are now silent.
Final farewell to Roxburgh children's residential village
The Christchurch children's village has a fantastic internal gym space but was missing a crucial ingredient - basketball hoops! Thanks to those wonderful people at the Glenelg Trust we received funding to install some.
The funding also enabled us to procure a height adjustable system which means the little ones have a fair shot too.
The kids are having a ball!
With help from Stand Youth Worker in Seconday Schools services, funding and advocacy, students at Dargaville High School are now wearing Tupenu / Sulu va tonga/ Le Faitaga as part of their school uniform for both informal and formal use.
The school had included this as their part of new uniform going into 2018, but had yet to source the required garments.
YWiSS services enabled students to find a supplier, get the required garments approved, order them, and start wearing them to school. This created a diverse uniform option that has become popular for both Polynesian and non Polynesian students.
Way to go Karla!
The Otago Daily Times has run an article that provides some Q+A around the village closures.
Reporter Pam Jones takes some of the questions from the Southern mayors and poses them to CEO Dr. Fiona Inkpen.
TVNZ had an article last night on the closures and the mother of a child attending the village was able to have a say.
