TCV Newsletter 22 August 2019

Kia ora koutou,

Our messages this week include:

And most importantly! TCV will be hosting a public Meet the Candidates Forum on 9th Sept - NOTE this will be in place of our usual Network meeting.

As always get in touch if you have any questions, suggestions, feedback, or are interested in joining our network.

Invitation
You're all invited to come along and meet the candidates for the upcoming local election in October. All attending candidates will be asked 3 questions and given a minute to answer.
What we'd like from you are some really good questions - What would you like to know?
Please let me know asap so we can prepare.
See the poster for details - the poster is available if you'd like one for your notice board. Email TCV here.

Yes! We are hiring at Tairawhiti Community Voice Inc.
Here's your opportunity to join the TCV team! Here at
TCV we are on the lookout for a someone who loves networking, meeting people and making connections.
As the Network Support Person, you'd be the go-to person for all of our grassroots organisations to share their news and tell their stories. The job, in a nutshell, is to:

Collate the news of the network into the weekly newsletter and maintain the website
Organise promote and host our monthly networking meetings
Lead projects and activities of TCV such as;
- Meet the Candidates Forum (next month)
- Nan Evans Awards (coming up in November)
- Home & Lifestyle Expo event (held last month)
General admin tasks that include keeping the paperwork in order, book-keeping and funding activities.

An enthusiasm & flare for marketing would be an advantage and a willingness to learn on the job a must. You'd be working with the Executive Team for guidance but mostly be expected to work independently. This is a PAID position. At this time we're offering 15hrs/wk with the opportunity to increase.

For a full job description please contact Liz on 020 4190 0415

Apply now - closing 30 August

Health and Disability Advocate, 25hrs per week, Gisborne.
To resolve complaints and promote the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights
through formal education and networking.
Email enquiries to : advocacy.services@xtra.co.nz

Applications close Friday 30 August 2019

NOTES from TCV Network Meeting, 12th August:
Guest speaker Wiremu Tamati from Gisborne District Council presenting the council's Resilience Plan.

Tairawhiti Resilience Plan

What is resilience?
·         Resilience is not tangible – can’t reach out and touch it
·         It involves an attitude shift by the community
·         Resilience definition for this project - “the ability to anticipate and resist the effects of a disruptive event, minimise adverse impacts, respond effectively, maintain or recover functionality, and adapt in a way that allows for learning and thriving”

Four Rs of emergency management
·         Reduction of risk
Identifying risks out in the community that can be reduced eg raising the Waipaoa River flood control stop banks
·         Readiness
The things we do before an event happens to prepare eg going to schools and businesses to help them with their plans and getting ready and training
·         Response
Having an effective and reliable reaction to the impacts of an event eg setting up the Emergency Coordination Centre
·         Recovery
Emergency element is over and move back into the longer time actions to get back to a stable place

Tairawhiti Resilience Plan
·         The Resilience Plan will take both the potential negative effects from climate change and natural hazards into account
·         Looks across all Four Rs of emergency management
·         Takes a proactive approach not waiting to respond to “the big event”
·         Involves hardening and strengthening key aspects eg infrastructure for our community
·         Means getting our training and resources geared up including the right people
·         We will be taking lessons learned from emergency situations locally, nationally and internationally

Discussion
·         Wellbeing is a catchword going around – the wellbeing of our community is important
·         The idea is to get from Response to Recovery as quickly as possible
·         The more time spent planning (risk reduction/readiness) reduces the time to get to recovery
·         Can only do this if the people and the things that they need to be safe (infrastructure, services etc) are restored
·         Need to work together as a team across the region to ensure survival
·         It will involve looking at different options in worst-case scenarios
·         The Hikurangi Response scenario is our worst-case scenario and involves large scale devastation of the East Coast of NZ – this is what we are planning for
·         Tsunami is a given – it’s not a matter of if but when – but we have completed tsunami inundation zones modelling and there is some work to do to get this circulated – need to be responsible with providing the information to the public
·         Council will talk to stakeholders with responsibilities about what actions can be taken eg electricity providers etc and how to harden their assets
·         Council will also be talking with schools about readiness
·         The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war
·         Council wants TCV input into the process as advocates for and representatives of vulnerable populations

Please tell us …
·         Related to wide-scale hazards and risks (such as tsunami, terrorist attack, pandemic, etc), what are the key vulnerabilities you see in our community?
·         Conversely, what are our key strengths that can help us come through?
·         What information do you have that you could share with us around the risks and hazards you are aware of and how your organisation is planning to deal with them?
·         How should we best support vulnerable populations in an emergency situation?

You can tell us by email to Wiremu.tamati@gdc.govt.nz or yvette@gdc.govt.nz
or you can phone us on 06 867 2049

Notes kindly provided by Yvette Kinsella, Principal Officer - Integrated Strategy, Gisborne District Council
www.gdc.govt.nz

Citizens' Advice Bureau (CAB) Gisborne 2019 AGM
at St Andrew's Church Hall
from 9:15am
Thursday 29th of August 2019
will be held on the
to be held on Tuesday 3^rd September at Blind Foundation Rooms at 7.30pm
RSVP to CAB 06-867 2606

Immigration Workshop hosted by CAB
For advice on making work and residency visa application changes.
Workshop to be held on Tuesday 3 Sept at 7.30pm
RSVP CAB 06-867 2606 or email Gisborne@cab.org.nz

Tairāwhiti COGS LDC Member Election

Tairāwhiti Community Organisations Grants Scheme (COGS) is seeking nominations for people who would like to volunteer for the Local Distribution Committee (LDC). An election is held for the COGS LDC every three years.

The main activity of the LDC is members work together to assess incoming applications before allocating grants to not-for-profit organisations delivering community-based social services that contribute to achieving locally-determined outcomes.

Here’s some information about the election process;

Contact Nita Selena if you have any questions, would like a nomination form, or need support in completing the nomination form. DDI: +64 6 868 1963 or mobile: 027 641 5893

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