Community Connect

ISSUE 6 • MARCH 2009

E-news from Family and Community Services

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Issue Six - March 2009:

Te Anau Heartlands has immigration success

PAFT makes a difference

MSD computers put to good use in Cook Islands

Results Based Accountability reaps rewards in Hawkes Bay

Fund supports innovative positive parenting

Franklin Family Support opening a new office

Community Link Approach Builds on Heartland Services

Community Action Fund Round Four now open

Planning for success

Twenty parent volunteers offer to become teen parent mentors

Tough guys promote love and respect

Whānau Christmas event celebrates family

DVD provides voice for teens

Not-for- profit annual pay survey helps set pay expectations

What's happening in the community

Fund supports innovative positive parenting

Do you share our vision of positive parenting? Are you an innovator within your community? If so, now is your chance to apply for funding from Round 10 of the Strategies with Kids – Information for Parents (SKIP) Local Initiatives Fund (LIF).

This Fund is looking for dynamic community organisations that explore innovative ways of promoting positive parenting and effective non-physical discipline to parents and caregivers of birth to five year olds.

Ideally an application will come from an organisation that is willing to provide leadership in their community via their partnerships and relationships with parents and other like-minded organisations. Successful projects use a variety of approaches and are willing to be in different spaces and places. 

Funding supports communities to take the approaches they consider will be most effective in getting positive parenting information to all parents, not just to those who traditionally seek it out.

Feedback regarding SKIP and the Fund has been positive. A community worker commenting on the SKIP approach, as part of research recently conducted for SKIP said, "SKIP honours creativity and builds trust. We catch hold of an idea and work with the SKIP team and our community to make it happen."

Applications for LIF close on 27 March 2009.

» For more information, email skipinfo@msd.govt.nz or go to Local Initiatives Fund (LIP).