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News: tagged with "emergencies"

• Be prepared for an emergency: Workshop for ChCh disability community

  Posted: Thursday, November 21, 2024 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: planning, disabilities, workshop, disasters, emergencies, preparation
  Do you have a plan if there’s a Civil Defence emergency? You are invited to a FREE workshop to find out about emergency preparedness and response for disabled people including what you can do before, during and after an emergency

• Psychological First Aid workshop from Red Cross

  Posted: Wednesday, November 6, 2024 in: Training With tags: support, wellbeing, disasters, emergencies, recovery, resilience, trauma, workshop
  Psychological First Aid (PFA) is a ‘best practice’ approach to providing initial emotional and practical support to someone who has experienced a traumatic event - either a large scale disaster event or a personal traumatic incident

• Free talk: The silly and serious sides of volcano science communication

  Posted: Wednesday, October 30, 2024 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: science, Communication, emergencies, seminar
  The Prime Minister’s Science Prizes and Royal Society Te Apārangi in partnership with the Canterbury Branch are delighted to offer a FREE talk by Professor Ben Kennedy - 2023 winner of the Prime Minister’s Science Communication Prize

• Responding to coastal environment incidents

  Posted: Wednesday, October 30, 2024 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: pollution, emergencies, emergency management, waterways, planning, preparation
  Environment Canterbury media release: 29th October 2024 Whether it’s an oil spill, a pollution event, a marine biosecurity incursion or affected wildlife, you may be surprised to know that our coast and harbours team have a response capability to coastal

• Cantabrians urged not to light outdoor fires

  Posted: Wednesday, October 23, 2024 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: safety, emergencies, prevention, warning, advice
  Fire and Emergency NZ media release: 22nd October 2024 Fire and Emergency New Zealand is asking people in Canterbury not to light outdoor fires over the next few days

• Celebrating completion of a major flood recovery project

  Posted: Wednesday, September 25, 2024 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: disasters, recovery, prevention, repair, emergencies, resilience, flooding
  Environment Canterbury media release: 25th September 2024 Three years after the May 2021 floods, we've completed a significant programme of work to restore Canterbury's resilience to extreme weather events

• Hato Hone St John launches $4 million appeal to Light the Way for emergency services

  Posted: Tuesday, June 18, 2024 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: awareness, funding, fundraising, health, emergencies, services, medical
  Hato Hone St John media release: 17th June 2024 Hato Hone St John is launching the Light the Way Appeal - aiming to raise $4 million to fund 14 urgent repair and new build projects for our ambulance stations

• A love for volunteering in Selwyn

  Posted: Tuesday, June 18, 2024 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: volunteers, volunteering, emergencies
  Selwyn District Council media release: 17th June 2024 National Volunteer Week runs from 16th to 22nd June 2024 and celebrates the collective contribution of the millions of volunteers who enrich Aotearoa New Zealand

• Record low water levels across Waitaha Canterbury

  Posted: Wednesday, May 29, 2024 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: Climate Change, water, land, emergencies, waterways
  Environment Canterbury media release: 28th May 2024 A “moderate adverse event” was declared in Canterbury on 21st March 2024, as El Niño conditions and a warming climate made their mark

• Port Hills fire recovery continuing

  Posted: Thursday, May 23, 2024 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: recovery, emergencies
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 22nd May 2024 Work on the recovery of the Port Hills following the Valentine’s Day fire is underway

• Selwyn Response Team Information Nights

  Posted: Wednesday, January 24, 2024 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: emergencies, volunteers, seminar
  Come and learn about the Selwyn District's front-line emergency response team and how you could join the team and be a part of helping our community in an emergency

• A RAPID number could save your life when seconds count

  Posted: Friday, January 19, 2024 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: emergencies, resources
  Hurunui District Council media release: 18th January 2024 When Culverden farmer David Croft needed an ambulance, every second counted

• Council invests in flood resilience

  Posted: Wednesday, September 13, 2023 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: emergency management, emergencies, resilience, water, planning
  Waimakariri District Council media release: 12th September 2023 Over $4 million for infrastructure repairs and the establishment of an Infrastructure Resilience Team to lead flood recovery were major outcomes from the Waimakariri District Council’s Septe

• Sponge Cities: Can they help us survive more intense rainfall?

  Posted: Wednesday, August 23, 2023 in: Resources and Information With tags: Climate Change, research, Report, environmental health, water, emergencies
  A major new research report from the Helen Clark Foundation and WSP in New Zealand is recommending a series of actions to respond to the escalating impacts of climate change-induced extreme rainfall events

• Coastal planning for Lyttelton Harbour takes big step forward

  Posted: Thursday, June 8, 2023 in: Resources and Information With tags: Climate Change, Report, emergencies, planning
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 7th June 2023 Christchurch City Council has released two key reports as part of its planning for coastal hazards caused by sea-level rise

• Become a Civil Defence Community Response Team volunteer

  Posted: Wednesday, May 17, 2023 in: Vacancies With tags: volunteers, emergencies, emergency management, Community, disasters
  Do you have what it takes to become a Civil Defence Community Response Team (CRT) volunteer? Selwyn District Emergency Managment is looking for passionate people to help their local community during an emergency - specifically in: Brookside/Irwell; G

• It’s time to have the prep talk

  Posted: Wednesday, March 29, 2023 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: emergencies, preparation, disasters
  Selwyn District Council media release: 28th March 2023 The impact of the latest adverse events like Cyclone Gabrielle, have reminded us all that emergencies can happen at any time, anywhere, often with little to no warning

• Report an environmental incident on Snap, Send, Solve

  Posted: Wednesday, January 18, 2023 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: environmental health, emergencies, technology
  Environment Canterbury media release: 18th January 2023 Have you spotted a pit of rubbish on fire? Seen a sizeable sheen of oil in a stream? Noticed chemicals spilt on the roadside? Report it so we can sort it! If an environmental incident seems time cr

• Mosque Attack Widows Share their Stories

  Posted: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: wellbeing, resilience, disasters, emergencies, podcast
  Dozens of women hovered in the female section of Christchurch’s Al-Noor Mosque on 15th March 2019 - their time of worship became a time of terror which shocked the nation to its core

• UC launches South Island translation Master’s degree

  Posted: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 in: Training With tags: qualification, language, Training, emergencies
  University of Canterbury media release: 27th November 2019 Practical training and applied language learning opportunities, with specialisation on crisis translation and interpreting, are being offered to graduates from 2020 through UC’s new Master of App

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