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It is a pleasure to share further excellent FASD learning opportunities plus a chance to have your say about FASD in the New Zealand Health Strategy Update. 

Next week

ABC 4 Corners features a documentary on FASD which screens in Australia on Monday 2^nd Nov.  Keep an eye out for online access https://www.facebook.com/abc4corners/

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Learning Difficulties and Disabilities Conference features FASD this January

FASD specialist Professor of Paediatrics Dr Liz Elliott from University of Sydney, will be a guest speaker at the International Learning Difficulties and Disabilities Conference on 26 & 27 January 2016 in Auckland. 

Early Bird Rate only available until 12 December - $550.00  + GST per person.  Book online www.positivepath.co.nz.  Group bookings can be made direct registrations@positivepath.co.nz  with a 10% discount for 10 or more delegates from the one school / agency / cluster. 

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A series of FASD workshops with Canadian FASD Intervention experts in February

In collaboration with Fostering Kids and FASD-CAN, Alcohol Healthwatch is thrilled to announce 4 ‘FASD: Moving Forward’ workshops for New Zealand this coming February.  It is our privilege to host FASD intervention specialists, University of Alberta Associate Professor Dr Jacqueline Pei and Tracy Mastrangelo, Project Leader of the Wellness Resiliency and Partnership project (WRaP), an innovative school-based programme for students with FASD. 

Workshops will be held in Whangarei on Tues 16 Feb, in Rotorua on Thurs 18 Feb, in Nelson on Tues 23 Feb and in Christchurch on Thurs 25 Feb. 

Service providers will be charged $50.00 per person to attend a workshop and those living with FASD and their parents and caregivers can attend at no charge.   Registration is essential for all. 

Fuller details will be available shortly; Meantime SAVE the DATE to attend an FASD workshop coming to a town near you!  

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NZ Health Strategy Update specifies action on FASD

Submissions on the update of the New Zealand Health Strategyare now open for public comment.  One of the identified priority actions in the ’Road to Action’ document is to “Lead the development of a plan to improve the health system’s response to children and families who are living with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.”  (included under Action 6 - ‘A great start for children, families and whānau’.

http://www.health.govt.nz/publication/new-zealand-health-strategy-consultation ) Submissions close 4 December.

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And last but by no means least a ‘must read’ for all parents, teachers - all of us!

‘I am THAT Parent’ is a post by Karen Copeland dedicated to those who are “THAT” parent and to everyone else it is time to be more curious about “THAT” label http://championsforcommunitywellness.com/2014/11/15/i-am-that-parent/

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 Christine Rogan

Health Promotion Advisor and FASD Project Coordinator

 

Level 1, 27 Gillies Ave, Newmarket, Auckland

*: P.O. Box 99407, Newmarket, Auckland 1149

(: (09) 520 7037(09) 520 7037 I christine@ahw.org.nz

:: www.ahw.org.nz  www.fan.org.nz

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The Collaborative Trust Update

Keeping you up to date with Collaborative research and training in youth health and development. 

Welcome to the latest edition of the Collaborative Update - we have a number of things to update you on this month

Welcome to the Disability Connect e-bulletin for week beginning 9^th November 2015. Click on the link below to access the e-bulletin and read about:

• Special Children's Christmas Party
• Chinese Families Autism Support Group Meeting, 17^th November 2015 - 9.30am-1.00pm, Te Tuhi, 13 Reeves Road, Pakuranga, Auckland - topic "Sensory Issues"
• StarJam - End of Year Concert! 28^th November, 7pm, Victory Convention Centre, Beaumont Street, Auckland
• CCS Disability Action - Leading Life Conversations Workshop, 26^th November, 10am-3pm, 14 Erson Avenue, Royal Oak, Auckland - Find out how to capture your ideas about what is important to you and communicate this to others
• Spark Centre now has a new name - Mapura Studios
• The Health and Disability Commissioner's office - consumer seminar, 4^th December 10am-12pm
• Epilepsy Association of New Zealand Information Evening - 16^th November, 7.30pm
• Accounting Services available (for families using Individualised Funding)
• Child's Play O.T. Holiday Programme January 2016
• Plus loads of interesting articles and E-news from other organisations

 

e-bulletin 9 November 2015 - PDF format

 

Feel free to email any interesting news or upcoming events to Disability Connect and we will endeavour to include in our next e-bulletin due to go out the week beginning 23^rd November 2015.

 

Lisa Martin
C.E.O.
Disability Connect
Parent & Family Resource Centre Inc. trading as Disability Connect
09 636 035109 636 0351
www.disabilityconnect.org.nz

The Ministry of Health has today published School Based Health Services (SBHS) quality improvement case studies. You can view the case studies on the Ministry of Health website:https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/mental-health-and-addictions/youth-mental-health-project/youth-mental-health-project-initiatives/expanded-school-based-health-services-making-difference/school-based-health-services-case-studies

The case studies feature school based nurses from around the country and provide practical examples of quality improvement activities undertaken in different communities.

The cases were developed as part of the Prime Minister's Youth Mental Health Project (YMHP), and support the existing quality improvement framework for SBHS. The framework is a practical tool to assist those planning, funding or providing primary health care services in secondary schools to continuously improve service quality. The framework includes a set of seven principles: youth participation, accessibility, partnership with schools and the community, youth-trained staff, commitment to the treaty of Waitangi, supporting quality holistic care, health promotion.

Each of the case studies is based on one of the seven principles in the framework. There is also video about the "accessibility" principle.  The case studies are:

• Case study 1: Improving youth participation: Seeking feedback through surveys (Whanganui)
• Case study 2: Improving accessibility: training alternative education students to access primary health care (Nelson)
• Case study 3: Working in partnership with the community to tackle student hunger at Linwood College (Christchurch)
• Case study 4: Training staff to work with youth through student placements (Auckland)
• Case Study 5: Developing a whanau -centric model of care in Waikato wharekura (Waikato)
• Case study 6: Supporting quality holistic care: Te Kahu Whitiki Kura at Lytton High School (Gisborne)
• Case study 7: The Chronic Care Kids Project: better care for young people with chronic conditions at Papatoetoe High School (Papatoetoe)

Please feel free to share the case studies with your colleagues and others who may be interested.

We would like to thank all those who were involved in developing these case studies, and for sharing their stories.

Kind regards

MOH

Just a quick note to bring to your attention the opportunity to have your say: The New Zealand Health Strategy consultation is now open.

Consultation closes 5 pm, 4 December 2015.
Further information is available on: http://www.health.govt.nz/about-ministry/what-we-do/new-zealand-health-strategy-update

One in four Australian students fails to complete a year 12 certificate or vocational equivalent, and 30 per cent of year 7 students are falling behind international benchmarks in reading.  

A landmark national study by education policy think tank the Mitchell Institute has also exposed an alarming discrepancy between advantaged and disadvantaged students, and warns the gaps are widening in a "segregated" system that leaves poorer students behind. 

With only three weeks to go till the conference don’t miss out on your chance to attend this important event. There is still time to register so visit the website now for full details.

A new study, Toward Solutions for Youth Employment: A 2015 Baseline Report, looks into new areas that can boost the chances of employment for young people around the world:

• Digital Age Impact – the technological revolution is fundamentally changing work and relationships, but this shift is unevenly felt across the world.
• Skills Gap – in order to fill the skills gap, opportunities for all, especially the most vulnerable, must be improved.
• Quality Jobs – quantitative unemployment measurements do not reflect quality of employment and deeper understandings of today’s working conditions is required.
• Entrepreneurship and self-employment – Young people are 1.6 times more likely than adults to display entrepreneurial activity and this can be encouraged.

Fascinating report worth checking out. While a global perspective lots of useful ideas for New Zealand

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