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News: tagged with "services"

• Drop in JP Clinics in Hornby

  Posted: Wednesday, May 1, 2024 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: support, services, Advocacy, advice, law
  A Justice of the Peace (JP) can witness signatures and documents, certify document copies, hear oaths, declarations, affidavits or affirmations as well as sign citizenship, sponsorship or rates rebate applications

• New Metro customer support team hops on board

  Posted: Wednesday, April 17, 2024 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: transport, support, public, services
  Environment Canterbury media release: 15th April 2024 Metro has established a new team, focused on customer support and safety. Its aim is to ensure a positive customer experience while travelling on some of Metro’s busier routes

• Listen to CAB on Air on PlainsFM

  Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2024 in: Resources and Information With tags: services, support, Advocacy, advice, podcast
  CAB on Air is a short monthly programme brought to you by Citizens Advice Bureau Christchurch Area – a non-profit organisation whose purpose is to ensure that no individual suffers from an ignorance of their rights and the services available to them

• Waitaha Canterbury Refugee Health launched

  Posted: Wednesday, April 3, 2024 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: migrants, refugees, health, services
  Pegasus Health recently launched its Refugee Health Service - a confidential and FREE health service helping former refugees access healthcare in Christchurch and Ashburton

• Co-ordinated action required to meet young people’s mental health needs

  Posted: Wednesday, February 21, 2024 in: Resources and Information With tags: Report, young people, youth, mental health, mental wellbeing, services
  A more youth-focused, integrated, and coherent system of care is required to meet young people's mental health needs, says the Auditor-General in a new report

• WAVES: A Bereaved by Suicide Group programme

  Posted: Monday, October 9, 2023 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: support group, services, suicide, mental wellbeing
  WAVES is an eight-week program that aims to support adults 18+ years old who have been bereaved by the suicide of someone they know

• New animated video promotes rights when using health and disability services

  Posted: Wednesday, September 20, 2023 in: Resources and Information With tags: health, services, Advocacy, education, human rights
  The Health and Disability Commissioner (HDC) has launched an animated video titled "Respecting your Rights" which aims to empower people to understand and exercise their rights when using health and disability services in Aotearoa New Zealand

• ASB Extra Care Specialist Support team: Helping those impacted by domestic violence

  Posted: Wednesday, June 21, 2023 in: Resources and Information With tags: finances, support, services, violence
  The ASB Extra Care Specialist Support team can help support people who have been impacted by domestic violence with their financial safety and wellbeing. A pathway is available for community agencies to refer clients to the team directly

• Young people experiencing acute mental distress need age-appropriate care

  Posted: Wednesday, May 17, 2023 in: Resources and Information With tags: Report, research, mental health, young people, services, support
   Te Hiringa Mahara - Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission media release: 17th May 2023 Too many young people experiencing acute mental distress are being admitted to adult inpatient mental health services, and this practice needs to stop

• New search function on Eldernet helps families struggling to find available care home beds

  Posted: Tuesday, October 4, 2022 in: Resources and Information With tags: older adults, older people, care, services, elderly
  The process of finding available care home beds in New Zealand has been made easier for older people and their family/whānau, thanks to The Eldernet Group’s upgraded online bed vacancy report

• JobConnect: A supported employment service from Comcare

  Posted: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 in: Resources and Information With tags: employment, support, services, mental health
  The Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand has stated that 33 percent of mental health service users in Aotearoa New Zealand, did not apply for jobs because they expected discrimination

• The Pink Pages Directory is alive and well

  Posted: Wednesday, April 27, 2022 in: Resources and Information With tags: gender, services, sexuality, Rainbow
  The Pink Pages is a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Intersex and Transgender Directory of Queer and Queer Friendly Services in Ōtautahi Christchurch

• Window on Pacific Peoples’ health calls for urgent system change

  Posted: Wednesday, July 7, 2021 in: Resources and Information With tags: pacific health, Report, health, services
  Health Quality and Safety Commission NZ media release: 5th July 2021 A new report paints a stark picture of the health care challenges faced by Pacific peoples in New Zealand and calls for ambitious changes to the system to be made urgently

• Eldernet’s ‘older person’s bible’ getting better with age

  Posted: Wednesday, June 2, 2021 in: Resources and Information With tags: elderly, resources, services, support, older people
  The release of the latest Where from Here/ He Ara Whakamua handbook by The Eldernet Group – which covers the Upper South Island – marks more than 30 years of what is commonly referred to as the “older person’s bible

• Help available to keep you warm and healthy

  Posted: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 in: Resources and Information With tags: funding, housing, health, services, support, energy, advice
  Community Energy Action (CEA) provides advice and services to homeowners that improve the health and energyefficiency of homes throughout Canterbury and the West Coast

• Friends of Ireland Wellbeing Service

  Posted: Thursday, August 6, 2020 in: Resources and Information With tags: migrants, support, services, resources, disease, Community Groups, wellbeing
  Is fearr an tsláinte ná na táinte. Health is better than wealth

• Book Discussion Scheme: Open books open minds

  Posted: Wednesday, May 6, 2020 in: Resources and Information With tags: recreation, reading, services, support
  Renee Blackburn from the Book Discussion Scheme was recently interviewed by ReadNZ about how New Zealand's book clubs are coping during lockdown, what they're reading, and why they joined the Book Discussion Scheme

• Contact a Maori pharmacist on a dedicated helpline

  Posted: Wednesday, May 6, 2020 in: Resources and Information With tags: maori, medical, services, Maori health
  Ngā Kaitiaki o Te Puna Rongoā o Aotearoa – the Māori Pharmacists Association (MPA) have re-launched their free phone line to answer questions that kaumātua or whānau may have about their medicines in response to COVID-19

• Free book for seniors: Where From Here He Ara Whakamua

  Posted: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 in: Resources and Information With tags: elderly, resources, older people, information, services
  The new edition of Eldernet's Upper South Island "Where from Here" is out now. This book covers South Canterbury, Canterbury, Nelson/Marlborough and the West Coast DHB regions. "Where from Here" is often referred to as the "Aged Care Bible"

• Eldernet: Where good decisions start

  Posted: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 in: Resources and Information With tags: resources, services, care, older adults, elderly, older people
  Eldernet is New Zealand's leading information provider about services relating to the older people as well as the people who support them

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