Kia ora koutou,
I hope you are all having a pleasant week. Welcome to our fortnightly pānui full of community notices, events, and reminders about what's happening in our network.
We are still accepting questions for our Meet the Candidates event on Monday 9th of September. We will select a few to be answered by each candidate on the day. Please email them to Leshaan here.
Remember to keep the new fortnightly newsletter releases in mind if you intend on submitting items to us, and send us event and project details as early as possible. Our next release is scheduled for Thursday 1st August.
Who are we?
Tairāwhiti Community Voice is a community organisation committed to helping Tairāwhiti thrive by assisting community organisations. We aim to support grassroots organisations to link up, speak out, refer between, and promote their services.
As always get in touch if you have any questions, suggestions, feedback, or are interested in joining our network.
- Leshaan
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TCV Calendar Snapshot, 18th July - 1st August
Here's what is coming up in the next fortnight. Please check our calendar for full details and contacts for all events:
From our members:
Taitech's open day is being held this afternoon from 2-4pm! See the poster in the newsletter below or our calendar for more information, or head along to see what it's all about. You can also visit them at www.taitech.co.nz or call Maurice Alford 0277336409 or Tena Baker 0272554921
Hospice Fundamentals of Palliative Care Education Programme third quarter offerings continue through to September including a session coming up on Tuesday 23rd July and two more on the 1st of August. See the website calendar for all of the dates and more info.
From TCV:
TCV is looking for a Network Officer! If you are ineterested in this 10 hour per week position, please contact Liz Graham on 0274140895
The Meet the Candidates event will be held on Monday 9th of September. We invite you to submit questions for this event, and we will select a few to be answered by each candidate. Please email them to Leshaan here.
From the community:
Incredible Years Parent Programme from the Ministry of Education has its July intake starting on Wednesday, 24 July. Please see our website calendar for further details and contact information.
Tātou tātou e - CNA Conference. Community Networks Aotearoa and the NZ Council of Christian Social Services Joint Conference is being held from the 27th – 28th August 2019 at the Westpac Stadium in Wellington. Registrations are open now and you can check out their website for more information.
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Te Whare Tu Wahine
Gisborne Women's Refuge Crisis Line:
Operation Changes
Due to changes in their Crisis Line contract, as of 05 July 2019, the Crisis Line will now operate from 8:00am to 8:00pm Monday to Friday, and the answer machine will be checked on Saturday and Sunday at 9am only. Pip is available for any questions you might have:
Philippa (Pip) Davies
General Manager
Te Whare Tu Wahine - Gisborne Women's Refuge Inc
Cell: 0220434289
During other times, some of the following helplines may be useful.
Thank you to Amber Aitkenhead from ACC for sending these through. It's always good to have an updated list to share with everyone and to keep in a handy place.
WHERE TO GET HELP:
1737, Need to talk? - Free call or text 1737 to talk to a trained counsellor
Depression.org.nz - 0800 111 757 or text 4202
Lifeline – 0800 543 354
Suicide Crisis Helpline – 0508 828 865 (0508 TAUTOKO)
Kidsline – 0800 54 37 54 for people up to 18 years old. Open 24/7.
Youthline – 0800 376 633, free text 234, email talk@youthline.co.nz, or find online chat and other support options here.
Shine – 0508 744 633 (Domestic violence)
Rural Support Trust - 0800 787 254
Samaritans – 0800 726 666
What's Up – 0800 942 8787 (for 5–18 year olds). Phone counselling available Monday-Friday, noon–11pm and weekends, 3pm–11pm. Online chat is available 3pm–10pm daily.
thelowdown.co.nz – Web chat, email chat or free text 5626
Anxiety New Zealand - 0800 ANXIETY (0800 269 4389)
Supporting Families in Mental Illness - 0800 732 825.
If it is an emergency click here to find the number for your local crisis assessment team (Gisborne/Tairāwhiti (06) 867 2435 / 0800 243500 / 027 452 7812). In a life-threatening situation call 111.
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Community Networks Aotearoa Update
– Ros Rice, Chief Executive
For those who don’t know us – Community Networks Aotearoa (CNA) is the umbrella organisation for local community networks throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. Our goal is to empower and strengthen the community sector by supporting community networks across Aotearoa. Here’s a quick update on what we’ve been up to.
First up I want to welcome Sarah Doherty to CNA. Lisa Woods, who has been part of our team for the last year has gone on maternity leave, and we are lucky to have Sarah join us to take over Lisa’s role. Sarah has vast experience working in both the community sector and government.
In June I attended the Equality Network Hui, the purpose of the day was to hear and collect views on a strategy for the network, especially as we head into an election year. I’m on the network’s Steering Group so I’ll be involved in helping to pull it all together and will keep you updated as this work progresses.
Lastly, before signing off remember to register for our conference! The joint conference of Community Networks Aotearoa and NZ Council of Christian Social Services is on the 27th and 28th August in Wellington. The theme this year is Tātou tātou e (all of us together): The value of relationships in building wellbeing. For more information go to: https://tatoutatoue.nz/
Community Networks Aotearoa
www.communitynetworksaotearoa.org.nz
Click here to find them on Facebook Click here to follow them on Twitter
Phone: (04) 472 3364
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Help your community have their say in this year’s local elections
The following message is from the Electoral Commission:
The local elections are being held in October this year when we choose who will be on our local councils and health boards. It's an important choice because councils and health boards make decisions about services we use every day like hospitals, buses, rubbish collection, parks and pools.
The local elections will be held by postal vote, so people need to be enrolled correctly by 16 August to get their voting papers in the mail.
You can help spread the word in your whānau and local community that you need to be enrolled and listed at the right address to vote in the local elections.
Get posters and brochures to use around your community, such as in your workplace, community centre, church or school, or you can download banners to share online.
For everything you need to know about enrolling for the local elections visit vote.nz
Together, we can make sure that everyone is enrolled and ready to vote!
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This event will be held at the office next to the Kaiti supermarket.
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Let's Work Together
Our fortnightly newsletters are sent out every second Thursday around midday. Please feel free to share them with your networks and get in touch if you want to be added to the mailing list.
If you would like us to include a notice for your organisation in our TCV Inc. newsletter, please email the relevant information to contact@tcvhub.co.nz by 5pm on the Wednesday before the newsletter goes out to ensure it can be added to Thursday's newsletter. Anything received after this deadline can be posted on our website calendar and highlighted in the following fortnight’s newsletter.
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