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Resources and Information

Research, reference documents and other documents of use to Healthy Christchurch signatories and others.

• Council takes steps to protect sacred reserve

  Posted: Thursday, October 12, 2017 in: Resources and Information With tags: consultation, environment, environmental health, community engagement, submission
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 11th October 2017 Public feedback is wanted on a draft management plan for Takapūneke Reserve - one of the most culturally significant reserves in New Zealand

• Five Ways to Wellbeing at Work Toolkit launched

  Posted: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 in: Resources and Information With tags: mental health, mental wellbeing, resources, workplace
  Mental Health Foundation press release: 10th October 2017 A toolkit to support New Zealand workplaces and their people to flourish will be launched on World Mental Health Day (10th October) by the Mental Health Foundation (MHF) and Health Promotion Agency

• Short-term flooding solution for Southshore

  Posted: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 in: Resources and Information With tags: emergencies, prevention, water
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 10th October 2017 Christchurch City Council has agreed on a short-term plan for protecting properties in an area of Southshore and South New Brighton vulnerable to tidal flooding

• Your chance to inspire street art

  Posted: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 in: Resources and Information With tags: community engagement, arts, consultation
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 9th October 2017 Wanted: Your creative ideas to brighten a large central city wall. Christchurch City Council is asking for your help to fill in the blank space on the wall of the Ibis Hotel on Hereford Street

• New trial proves micronutrients effective for childhood ADHD

  Posted: Thursday, October 05, 2017 in: Resources and Information With tags: research, children, mental wellbeing
  University of Canterbury media release: 3rd October 2017 New Zealand researchers have shown that vitamin-mineral treatment improves aggression and emotional regulation in children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), in the first publishe

• Have your say on the Canterbury Long Term Plan 2018-2028

  Posted: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 in: Resources and Information With tags: planning, consultation, submission, community engagement
  Environment Canterbury's Long-Term Plan sets out the region's service priorities, work programmes and resource requirements such as expenditure and funding for a 10-year period

• Make Your Home a Safety Zone Grants now available

  Posted: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 in: Resources and Information With tags: funding, children, families, safety
  You are invited to apply for the ACC and Safekids Aotearoa Make Your Home a Safety Zone Grant if you work with families and whānau to promote child safety in the home. The most common place for children to get hurt is in the home

• Take the time to have your women's health checks

  Posted: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 in: Resources and Information With tags: health, women, prevention, cancer
  September is Cervical Screening Awareness Month. A cervical screening test may not be the nicest thing in the world to have done but it can save your life

• Help shape the 2018 Christchurch ANA Forum

  Posted: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 in: Resources and Information With tags: survey, forum, nutrition, physical activity
  Activity and Nutrition Aotearoa (ANA) is pleased to be hosting a free one day forum in Christchurch in the first half of 2018. They would like to know your thoughts and ideas to help shape the day

• eCALD Newsletter 22: September 2017

  Posted: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 in: Resources and Information With tags: newsletter, research, migrants, resources, asian health, health
  Kia ora and welcome to our 22nd edition. eCALD® Research Commentary [11th Edition] This research commentary focuses on the experiences of migrant and refugee background families, of palliative care in New Zealand and in other settlement societies

• Cycleways tempt more people onto bikes

  Posted: Friday, August 25, 2017 in: Resources and Information With tags: research, survey, transport, safety, cycling
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 23rd August 2017 Christchurch residents still rely heavily on their cars to get around but the city’s growing cycleway network is luring more people onto bikes

• New online tool puts the focus on health of Maori men

  Posted: Thursday, August 17, 2017 in: Resources and Information With tags: maori, men, mens health, health determinants
  Mana Tane Ora o Aotearoa media release: Tuesday 15th August 2017 Mana Tāne Ora o Aotearoa - the National Māori Men’s Health Coalition - have launched the Tāne Ora Health Indicator tool

• Co-Governors welcome Ahuriri Lagoon funding

  Posted: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 in: Resources and Information With tags: water, environment, environmental health, recreation
  Environment Canterbury media release: 15th August 2017 The Co-Governors of Te Waihora/Lake Ellesmere (Environment Canterbury, Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu, Selwyn District Council and Christchurch City Council) today welcomed the Government’s announcement of fu

• Community Board picks site for new library and leisure centre

  Posted: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 in: Resources and Information With tags: sport, recreation
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 15th August 2017 Denton Park has been identified by the Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton Community Board as the preferred site for Hornby’s planned new library, customer and leisure centre

• Participants needed for study on knee arthritis pain treatment

  Posted: Wednesday, August 09, 2017 in: Resources and Information With tags: research, medical, health, volunteers
  A study into the effect of the medication nortriptyline on pain for people with knee arthritis is seeking Canterbury-based participants

• Council releases Christchurch housing data

  Posted: Wednesday, August 09, 2017 in: Resources and Information With tags: data, housing
  Christchurch City Council media release: 8th August 2017 Christchurch City Council is looking at how it can make more of the data it holds available to the public. As a first step it is releasing the data it collects on house sales - on a trial basis

• Run with the Mental Health Foundation at the New York Marathon 2018

  Posted: Wednesday, August 09, 2017 in: Resources and Information With tags: physical activity, event, mental health, fundraising
  Are you up for the challenge of a lifetime? If you’ve ever dreamed of seeing the Empire State Building, Central Park and the Statue of Liberty in the flesh, this is your opportunity! Run and raise funds for the Mental Health Foundation in the New York Mar

• Feeding your family for less or on a budget

  Posted: Wednesday, August 09, 2017 in: Resources and Information With tags: nutrition, healthy food
  Community and Public Health is interested in addressing issues around access and availablilty of affordable food (food security)

• Get assistance from a recent Information Systems graduate seeking practical experience

  Posted: Thursday, July 20, 2017 in: Resources and Information With tags: resources, technology, support, volunteers
  Samuel Wilson is a recent Information Systems graduate from the University of Canterbury. He is seeking practical experience, so is looking for small computer-based projects he could work on as a volunteer

• Are you recycling right?

  Posted: Wednesday, July 19, 2017 in: Resources and Information With tags: waste, management, recycling
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 17th July 2017 Between 35 and 40 tonnes of unwanted steel tools and appliances are ending up at Christchurch’s EcoSort plant each month because people are incorrectly putting them in their recycling wheelie bin

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