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• Celebrate World Rivers Day with a family fun day out

  Posted: Wednesday, September 6, 2023 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: event, Community, awareness, waterways, families
  Come along to a family fun day out to celebrate our waterways and learn what you can do in your own home to help improve the health of our rivers. Date: Saturday 23rd September 2023.Time: 10am to 2pm

• Free breathwork sessions for Mental Health Awareness Week

  Posted: Wednesday, September 6, 2023 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: mindfulness, awareness, mental wellbeing
  The Art of Living is offering free online sessions to learn breathing techniques to settle the mind as part of Mental Health Awareness Week (18th to 24th September 2023)

• Five ways five days for Mental Health Awareness Week 2023

  Posted: Wednesday, August 9, 2023 in: Resources and Information With tags: awareness, mental health, mental wellbeing
  Mental Health Awareness Week (MHAW) is coming to you from 18th to 24th September 2023. MHAW has been running since 1993

• 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

• New Zealand celebrates National Blood Donor Week

  Posted: Tuesday, June 13, 2023 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: volunteering, support, services, awareness
  New Zealand Blood Service (NZBS) is marking the start of the country’s second annual National Blood Donor Week by calling for 40,000 more New Zealanders to ‘Find their Why’ and become lifesavers

• At risk Kiwis urged to test for coeliac disease

  Posted: Tuesday, June 13, 2023 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: awareness, Gut Health
  Around 100,000 New Zealanders are thought to be living with coeliac disease, with many completely unaware that they have it

• Hospice Awareness Week: Three million Kiwis anxious talking about dying

  Posted: Wednesday, May 17, 2023 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: Community, services, awareness
  Hospice New Zealand is launching a campaign for Hospice Awareness Week (15th to 21st May 2023) to help raise awareness about the value of hospice care

• Update on Brain Health Month from Dementia Canterbury

  Posted: Wednesday, March 22, 2023 in: Newsletters With tags: newsletter, dementia, Community Groups, funding, awareness
  Tēnā koe 2023 is off to a flying start and we are incredibly grateful to you - our community - for getting behind the various brain health events and fundraisers for our March Brain Health Month

• Introducing the Equally Well See Us campaign

  Posted: Thursday, December 8, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: awareness, mental health, discrimination, campaign, services
  People who experience mental health and addiction issues are two-to-three times more likely to die prematurely - because they have poorer access to health support and services, and consequently significantly poorer health outcomes

• Top spots for bird-watching in Otautahi Christchurch

  Posted: Thursday, September 8, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: wildlife, environment, awareness, conservation
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 8th September 2022 To mark Conservation Week we asked our ecologist Andrew Crossland to share his favourite places for bird watching in and around Ōtautahi Christchurch

• Survey indicates concerning rise in iron deficiency symptoms

  Posted: Wednesday, August 24, 2022 in: Resources and Information With tags: nutrition, survey, awareness
  Beef + Lamb New Zealand media release: 22nd August 2022 The results from an online iron quiz titled ‘Could you be low on iron?’ – which checks for common signs and symptoms of iron deficiency – point to some worrying trends

• World ME Day puts the spotlight on the latest guidance for ME/CFS

  Posted: Wednesday, May 4, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: awareness, Training, medical, health, Professional Development
  If you are a health professional, you very likely have patients in your practice who live with debilitating post-viral illness. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) most commonly occurs after an infection

• Govt launches road safety campaign with target of zero road deaths

  Posted: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: transport, safety, awareness, campaign
  Beehive media release: 23rd February 2022 Transport Minister Michael Wood and Police Minister Poto Williams have today launched the Road to Zero public awareness campaign, which sets a target of zero road deaths and serious injuries by 2050, and a 40 per

• Quit smoking and vaping around your pets

  Posted: Wednesday, June 2, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: pets, smokefree, vaping, awareness
  SPCA media release: 31st May 2021 SPCA is urging people not to smoke or vape near their pets, as research shows second-hand smoke and nicotine from e-cigarettes can have serious health effects on animals - just like humans

• Hearing Care For All! Screen, Rehabilitate, Communicate

  Posted: Thursday, March 4, 2021 in: Resources and Information With tags: prevention, hearing, awareness
  New Zealand Audiological Society media release: 3rd March 2021 The New Zealand Audiological Society (NZAS) welcomes the launch of the World Health Organisation’s World Report on Hearing

• Survey uncovers emotional and mental health issues faced by Kiwis with diabetes

  Posted: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 in: Resources and Information With tags: diabetes, awareness, survey, mental wellbeing, medical
  Diabetes New Zealand media release: 1st November 2020 As New Zealand begins Diabetes Action Month, Kiwis are being asked to Love Don’t Judge as Diabetes NZ sheds light on the emotional burden of a chronic condition that affects quarter of a million of us

• Hundreds helped to prevent family violence

  Posted: Wednesday, August 28, 2019 in: Resources and Information With tags: families, violence, workshop, awareness
  Selwyn District Council media release: 27th August 2019 More than 150 teachers have taken part in workshops to help prevent family harm in Selwyn