What's going on....?! We have been doing everything from NZ Fashion Week, to multiple trips to the snow, overseas trips to the Gold Coast, getting vegetable plots started, picking hundreds of kilos of lemons and venturing everywhere from Kaikoura to Northland. Recreate youth have got it good! In this email we have links to our newsletters, a fundraising campaign we are running to help us with MOXIE and information about services out there that could help you with you and your child's future.

The moment that all of you have been waiting for... Newsletters! The pictures below will take you to our online links for our Term for Newsletters for Auckland, Waikato and Christchurch. Not from these areas? That's all good! Give us a call and we can see what programmes might be available to you. We do our best to make all our programmes accessible no matter where you are in Aotearoa.

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Message from Bryan Wilson - Community Investment Tēnā koutou katoa Last week we published the Community Investment Strategy Update 2016. The Update summarises what we achieved in the first year of the three-year implementation process, sets out the direction for the next 12 months and aligns with the work programme to establish the new Ministry for Vulnerable Children, Oranga Tamariki. Since the release of the Strategy in 2015, MSD has been developing its social investment approach to contracting for programmes and services. This allows us to better deliver effective programmes and services to the right people at the right time. A social investment approach is about providing up-front investment to support people most at risk of poor outcomes later on in life. We will use the technology and data available to help us understand the people who rely on the programmes and services we invest in. We want providers to be able to spend more time working with their clients and collecting information about the results they’re getting, and less time meeting our contract compliance requirements. Our focus is on ensuring there is sufficient evidence about the programmes and services we fund for us to be confident they will work. We are confident the Community Investment Strategy will enable us to achieve this. Ngā mihi, Bryan Wilson Associate Deputy Chief Executive Community Investment

In this September 2016 issue:

	Message from Bryan Wilson - Community Investment
	Community Investment Strategy Update 2016
	Investing in Children Programme: Transformational change
	International Leadership Award recipients announced
	Recognising KickStart Breakfast’s unsung heroes
	New Director for Hamilton Children’s Team

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Emcare Update I New Building - Better Facilities!

We have moved to a commercial premises in Albany, and are building a simulation centre so that we can provide relevant scenarios for you. Our dental chair is in place, and so is the GP examination table.

From the end of this week, a majority of our Auckland courses will be held at our office in Albany. We are keeping one course a month at Auckland City Hospital for those that would prefer to have a course there. Feel free to drop in an say hi if you are in Albany. Our address is 235D Bush Road. We believe that a number of you have been contacted by your governing bodies, stating that you must sit one of the new New Zealand Resuscitation Council courses. At this point in time, the new manual has been released, but no other resources or information about the courses have been released.

We are continuing to run courses as per the current New Zealand Resuscitation Council guidelines until we are able to run the new courses. The certificate that you receive upon successful completion of your course will be recognised by your governing body. We will keep you updated as more information becomes available. We have been busy providing courses throughout New Zealand, and would be happy to discuss running a course at your place of work. Give us a call or contact us via the Emcare website to arrange this. Stay dry, warm and safe The team at Emcare  Saving Lives Made Simple

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Nau mai, Haere mai, Welcome Hello everyone.   It is great to be writing my first newsletter as the CEO of Auckland Communities Foundation.  I’ve had a month working with the small but fabulous team here and have been getting out to meet donors and community stakeholders.   A busy time! I’m passionate about the act of giving – how rewarding it is and how powerful it can be for all involved.  I know there are many Aucklanders who want to give, but don’t have the time to feel they can make a real impact.  We are a time poor society and you need to invest time to understand the charitable sector, find out where your precious dollars can have an impact and how best to contribute. That’s where the Auckland Communities Foundation can help.  It’s our job to understand the rich and varied community sector in Auckland and assist you to achieve your giving goals.  We’re unique in having this perspective and offering this service to Aucklanders -without having a profit motive ourselves.   We want to see Auckland’s communities profit and we share this desire with the many people who have left a bequest for us or set up a foundation within our structure.  If we can help you with your giving, please get in touch. Dellwyn Stuart Chief Executive Officer

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Kia ora FANNZ

Just when we think people are too busy …

FASD Awareness Day Poster

Attached is a FASDAY 2016 poster, the work of a Year 13 student from Lynfield College in Auckland who chose FASD Awareness resources for her level 3 NCEA Design & Visual Communication Subject.  Please feel free to print, save and share (oh, and it will have 2017 on it for next year). We think she has done a fine job and wish her well for the future!

FASD Awareness Day NDHB Special Edition

Attached is a Special Edition of Alcohol and Other Drugs Update compiled especially for FASDAY by Dave Hookway from Northland DHB. It is wonderful to see our growing collective efforts to raise awareness and support for FASD prevention and intervention gathered together in one place!  Isn’t it amazing what happens with very little when good people get together!   Thank you for compiling and enabling others to share this useful resource Dave.  

FASD Awareness Day ads on i-heart radio

A series of radio ads promoting the no alcohol when pregnant message will feature on i-Heart Radio over the coming two weeks. Thanks again to the generosity of Northland DHB, the nation gets to hear this!

Hawkes Bay Collaboration for FASDAY

Details of FASDAY activities in the wonderful Hawkes Bay have appeared on Scoop 

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1609/S00023/fetal-alcohol-a-life-sentence.htm

Bay of Plenty TV Ad

Janet and friends from Tauranga got together to produce an advert which aired in many regions last year. Efforts to do that again are continuing.  You can watch the advert on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ16ubMrLIg  Janet wishes to remind people - Please note no babies were harmed in the making of this ad)!!

FASD Policy and Research Forum

Don’t forget to join in the discussion about the Government’s FASD Action Plan and FASD research @ this year’s FASDAY Policy and Research Forum in Association with the University of Auckland School of Population Health.  It’s FREE and NO Need to RSVP.

When: 9am- 12.00pm Friday 9^th September.

Where: Building 721: Room 201 University of Auckland Tamaki Campus.  Details @ www.fan.org.nz

Kia ora koutou and welcome to theSeptember edition of the YCAP newsletter.
 

This month, Canada’s Minister of Justice and Attorney General, the Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould, visited New Zealand. She is the first indigenous person in Canada’s history to hold this position. The purpose of her visit was to gain insights into our justice system.

Hon Wilson-Raybould was particularly interested in New Zealand’s approach to youth justice. This provided a great opportunity for us to share with her all the great work that is happening in communities across the country under YCAP, in particular the work of Youth Offending Teams.

 

As noted in the August newsletter, YCAP events have been held in Kaitaia, Whangarei, Auckland, and Rotorua. In this newsletter, we share with you a snippet of the Rotorua and Auckland events.

As always, if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions about this newsletter, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us through the YCAP ideas email address YCAPideas@justice.govt.nz

In this edition...

• Auckland YCAP event 
• New Principal Youth Court Judge announced 
• Rangatahi and Pasifika Courts: Through the eyes of participants 
• Emerging trends in neuroscience: Implications for youth justice 
• Kainga Ora: A new Place-Based Initiative for Northland 
• Launch of Taking Action on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder 
• New professional association for youth workers
• Reducing crime through skateboarding

Youth in Emergency Services 

Youth in Emergency Services is a national programme run collaboratively with the Ministry of Youth Development and the Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management.

On this page:

About the Youth in Emergency Services programme

How does the Youth in Emergency Services programme work?

How to apply?

Experience from the Youth in Emergency Services programme participants

Youth in Emergency Services programme - Real Story

About the Youth in Emergency Services programme

The Youth in Emergency Services programme provides a great opportunity to build the knowledge and skills of our young people to contribute to both emergency preparedness and response in New Zealand. These experiences will pay dividends both for the individuals involved and our wider communities.

The programme is designed to grow and strengthen young people’s connection to their community by encouraging them to engage with a range of emergency services.

Volunteer emergency services run the Youth in Emergency Services programme as an inspiration orientation for young people to volunteer in their community.

In June 2016, the Minister for Youth announced funding totalling $100,000 to support the continuation of the Youth in Emergency Services programme in 2016/2017. 

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Game therapy for 

students

Funded by the Ministry of Health, SPARX is therapy in an online game format and aims to help young people struggling with difficult emotions.

Are your students struggling with their feelings or just in a bad mood that never ends?

SPARX can help! SPARX is a clinically tested, evidence-based online game targeted at 12 to 19-year-olds (but can be of interest to younger students also) and is designed to help them feel better. 

They can go online, play the game for free and learn skills that they can use in everyday life so that they start to feel better.

SPARX is therapy in a game format designed to help teens who are down, depressed or stressed. Feedback from alternative education students said it also helped with feelings of anger.

Researched and designed by the Department of Psychological Medicine at the University of Auckland, SPARX was then funded by the Ministry of Health as part of the Prime Minister’s Youth Mental Health Project.

SPARX uses CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) to help young people change how they think about things and how they behave which leads to improvements in how they feel. The SPARX Guide acts as a virtual therapist, relating skills learnt in the game to real life. 

Free SPARX resources, including posters and slides can be obtained by emailing Angela ata.chong@auckland.ac.nz.

Test out SPARX yourself – www.sparx.org.nz – or learn more through the training module www.goodfellowunit.org/courses/e-therapy-youth-depression.

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Commissioning framework for 

mental health and addiction

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Community Investment Update

Investing together for stronger communities

In this August 2016 issue:

Message from Bryan Wilson - Community Investment

New children’s agency established

From Budget Services to Building Financial Capability

Family Start expansion

Child, Youth and Family changes now in effect

Change in delivery method for contract remittance advice notices

Increasing quality youth development opportunities at the heart of new MYD focus

New Family Services Directory feature for regional provider data

Children’s Action Plan

It’s not OK resources mobilise communities

Inspirational waiata promote positive change

Pacific leaders share solutions to prevent family violence