• Amazing Assertiveness
• Girls Self Defence
• Building a New Life After Separation
• Aroha Dance
• Feminist Action
• Restorative Yoga
• Rainbow Women’s Social Night
• Single Mum Matters
• Single Mums On Sunday
• SKIP Single Mum’s Central East
• SKIP Single Mums Garden Project
Please also pass this on to your clients, friends and whanau. Let me know if you would like posters sent/emailed to you for any of these courses. If you have any questions or would like to enroll just email back or call us on 09 376 3227 xtn 0. Thanks so much for supporting our mahi.
Ngā Mihi, Ellie Lim
Womens Services and Community Education Coordinator
Auckland Women’s Centre l Te Roopu Wahine o Tāmaki Makaurau
4 Warnock Street, Grey Lynn, Auckland 1245
You can read the full forum report here. Cissy Rock from Kai Auckland presented her organisation’s views and ideas. To see that presentation click here. We also have full transcripts of the presentations by the three feature speakers, Richard Main from Gardens4Health and Wayne Walker, Auckland City Councillor for the Albany Ward, as well as Cissy.
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This site helps the people who make Aotearoa New Zealand a better place – especially smaller community groups who can struggle to show the value of their work.
It aims to help people gather robust data and information to tell a real story about what they are doing and the difference it makes.
If you need to reflect on your work, demonstrate its effectiveness and keep improving your practice, this site is for you
]]>One of the issues for those of us working in the sector can be time consuming keeping up with the latest research and information. So we have pulled together some of the best websites which have excellent resources and updates to support you with your work.
New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services
The NZCCSS has a section called policy watch- which provides a great selection of the latest news, research reports and policy developments in the social service field. You can subscribe to the newsletter as well providing information into your inbox, so you don’t need to go searching.
The Health Promotion Forum of New Zealand
This is an umbrella organisation for those who identify health promotion as part of their work. Their website is full or resources covering all different aspects of health promotion including Maori and community health. They have a great newsletter you can sign up to in order to keep up-to-date with what is happening in this field.
Information and news to support people to age well and those working and advocating for the older person.
COMET Auckland state their purpose as being to advance education for Auckland by supporting and connecting education initiatives across the city. They run a variety of programmes across Auckland all to do with the advancement of education in the region. Current programmes include Literacy, Auckland Languages Strategy, SouthSci, Skills Auckland, Learning Auckland and Mātauranga Māori. Their website is full of resources form each of these programmes as well as information and resources on past programmes.
Not only do they have a comprehensive list of organisations and services you can also search for information and advice, as well as looking at each of the local offices to see what specialists they have in each location.
Salvation Army Policy and Parliamentary Unit
Not only can you link to their reports and submissions but also to some think pieces and video resources.
Yes its an Australia organisation, but with an amazing resource bank around community development. Well worth having a good look at for those in the community development field.
Auckland Action Against Poverty
Not only can you look at their submissions but there are also some interesting resources around radical community development.
The umbrella organisation for local community networks and council of social services (including ADCOSS) CNA has some great resources especially around new Health and Safety guidelines and other helpful documents for community organisations.
Factsheets and a library which is helpful for all those working in the fields of problem gambling, addictions, and counseling.
Ageing Well National Science Challenge
The Ageing Well National Science Challenge vision is to add life to years for all older New Zealanders. This will be achieved by harnessing science to sustain health and wellbeing into the later years of life. On their website you will find research and news to support people working in this area.
CPAG works to produce evidence about the causes and effects of poverty on children and their families. It looks carefully at how Government policies affect children. CPAG publishes reports, makes submissions and conducts small-scale research projects to achieve its goals and there is a very good resource base on this website for anyone to look at.
Have we forgotten one? Email us [email protected] and she will add it on.
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http://www.censusauckland.co.nz/ This website helps you to easily find census information specifically for Auckland. It provides interactive mapping, graphing and data export functions. You can build your own graphs and tables by selecting a data category or the relevant area on the map. Information, where available, is given for the 2001, 2006 and 2013 Censuses and more information will be added over time as data is released from Statistics New Zealand.
https://data.govt.nz/ Search and request New Zealand Government Data
http://www.contractmapping.govt.nz/ Contract Mapping gives you easy access to information about social services that the government funds in your community.
]]>These templates include a Health and Safety Policy, Governance Health and Safety Policy, Hazard Register and Hazard Notification. The templates are available to the community sector and may be downloaded from Community Networks Aotearoa website http://communitynetworksaotearoa.org.nz/resources/
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