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Resources and Information

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

• Can Do Catering: a social enterprise business

  Posted: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 in: Resources and Information With tags: nutrition, Community Groups, healthy food
  Can Do Catering is one of Christchurch’s newest caterers for businesses and social functions. Can Do Catering is a social enterprise business that provides real employment for younger adults with significant physical impairments

• Major review of health system launched

  Posted: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 in: Resources and Information With tags: health, disabilities, services
  Beehive media release: 29th May 2018 Health Minister Dr David Clark has announced a wide-ranging review designed to future-proof our health and disability services

• Update on Government insulation and heating grants

  Posted: Wednesday, May 23, 2018 in: Resources and Information With tags: heating, housing, insulation, funding
  Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA) says funding towards insulation will continue over the next four years. However there will be no funding for landlords after 30th June 2018. It will be new heating grants available from July 2019

• Rent free office space available in Middleton

  Posted: Thursday, May 17, 2018 in: Resources and Information With tags: Community Groups, resources
  Rent free office space is available at 55 Lunns Road in Middleton that two organisations could share. Tenants would have to share property expenses including rates, insurance and grounds maintenance

• Funding boost for Growing Up in New Zealand Study

  Posted: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 in: Resources and Information With tags: children, research
  Beehive media release: 15th May 2018 Minister for Social Development Carmel Sepuloni has today announced the Government will restore more than $1.9 million of funding to the Growing Up in New Zealand study

• Significant funding boost for family violence services

  Posted: Wednesday, May 09, 2018 in: Resources and Information With tags: families, violence, funding, support, services
  Beehive media release: 9th May 2018 Social services dealing most directly with the harm caused by family violence will get much needed support as the Government boosts funding to front line agencies for the first time in ten years

• Older-style wood burners phased out

  Posted: Wednesday, May 09, 2018 in: Resources and Information With tags: housing, heating
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 8th May 2018 Anyone still using an older-style wood burner in Christchurch is being urged to contact Environment Canterbury before winter hits

• Give feedback on Te Ora Hou Otautahi site redevelopment

  Posted: Wednesday, May 09, 2018 in: Resources and Information With tags: Community Groups, young people, consultation, survey
  Te Ora Hou Ōtautahi is a community organisation with a long history in the Papanui area, and they have been based on their current site in Windermere Road since 2002

• External Advisory Group delivers final report on long term works programme

  Posted: Thursday, April 26, 2018 in: Resources and Information With tags: planning, repair, recovery, rebuild
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 26th April 2018 An External Advisory Group set up to provide independent advice on Christchurch City Council’s long-term capital works programme and related spending plans has delivered its final report

• Maori and Pacific health app being trialled

  Posted: Thursday, April 19, 2018 in: Resources and Information With tags: maori, pacific, health, technology
  Ol@-Or@ is a healthy lifestyle mobile app and website developed for Māori and Pasifika people. The app is being trialled and could be rolled out nationally next year

• Coastal rangers weave rescue plan for katipo

  Posted: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 in: Resources and Information With tags: environment, biodiversity
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 18th April 2018 Moves are under way to make the katipo spider feel right at home in Pegasus Bay

• Office space available in Addington

  Posted: Thursday, April 12, 2018 in: Resources and Information With tags: Community Groups, resources
  Creative Junk URGENTLY needs a tenant to sub-lease part of their building at 25 Disraeli Street (Addington). The 65.15m² office space upstairs is made up of 3 rooms and a storeroom

• New website to help men check for prostate cancer

  Posted: Thursday, April 12, 2018 in: Resources and Information With tags: mens health, men, cancer
  Ministry of Health media release: 11th April 2018 Kupe is a website aimed at helping men decide if a prostate check is right for them launched by the Ministry of Health

• Urbanisation and climate change may increase mosquitoes in NZ

  Posted: Thursday, March 29, 2018 in: Resources and Information With tags: research, land, Climate Change, biodiversity
  University of Canterbury media release: 29th March 2018 University of Canterbury research has found that changes in climate and land use are bringing significant changes to mosquitoes’ habitats and life cycles, which may increase exotic, potentially disea

• More commitment by local government needed to achieve Smokefree 2025

  Posted: Thursday, March 29, 2018 in: Resources and Information With tags: planning, research, smokefree, policy
  University of Otago media release: 29th March 2018 New University of Otago research shows that there needs to be more commitment by local government to help achieve central government’s Smokefree 2025 goal

• SH1 Kaikoura to re-open in both directions next month

  Posted: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 in: Resources and Information With tags: transport, safety
  Media release from the Transport Minister: 28th March 2018 State Highway 1 between Picton and Christchurch will re-open for night-time travel from the end of April for the first time since the Kaikoura earthquake in November 2016, Transport Minister Phil

• Initiative aims to end homelessness by 2020

  Posted: Thursday, March 22, 2018 in: Resources and Information With tags: housing, support, services
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 22nd March 2018 Christchurch City Council has agreed to support in principle a Housing First pilot programme aimed at ending chronic homelessness in Christchurch by 2020

• Lifeline expands to offer text support for those in distress

  Posted: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 in: Resources and Information With tags: support, services, suicide, prevention
  Lifeline media release: 21st March 2018 Lifeline announces the launch of its free text support service – HELP (4357) as part of its suicide prevention strategy to increase access to support for people in distress

• Take care at intersections in the Selwyn District

  Posted: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 in: Resources and Information With tags: transport, safety, campaign
  Selwyn District Council media release: 20th March 2018 Selwyn motorists are being reminded of the need to take care at intersections through a new Selwyn District Council road safety campaign

• Office of Film and Literature Classification: Be careful what you share

  Posted: Wednesday, March 14, 2018 in: Resources and Information With tags: young people, social, media
  ‘It’s not everyone’s fiction. Be careful what you share.’  is the message two 15-year-old Wellington filmmakers want everybody to take notice of in a new social media film they’ve created on behalf of the Classification Office

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