Community Connect

ISSUE 8 • OCTOBER 2009

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In this issue:

Connected Communities

1. Federation Connecting Communities for Forty Years
2. Heartlands Expo Popular in Te Anau
3. New name for National Directory
4. Webhealth Kiosks undergo upgrade
5. Ministerial thumbs-up for joined-up approach
6. December Workshops Focus on Results
7. Social Work Study Awards
8. Random act of kindness
   

Community Relations

9. New Migrant Centre Opens in Whangarei
10. Palmerston North Settling In Report
11. Positive Parenting for Hamilton Ethnic Mum’s

Early Intervention

12. Strengthening Families Helps Family with Special Needs
13. Early Years Hubs

Funding and Contracting

14. Helping people get through the recession
15. Community Response Fund

Preventing Family Violence

16. Advocate Links Waitakere Schools in on Family Violence
17. Reducing Family Violence in Manukau City
18. Never too Young to Get the Message
19. Canterbury schools pilot family violence tool kit

Positive Parenting

20. Young Mother Builds Self Esteem through PAFT
21. Doing All Dad’s stuff
22. Light at the end of the tunnel – parent port
23. Funky Monkeys SKIP Challenge
24. SKIP and The Warehouse Join Forces Again on Father’s Day
25. SKIP and Father’s Day 2009
26. Parenting programme hits home for those on the fringes of gang life

Whanau Ora

27. Well-Being Framework for Programmes of Action
28. Whanau-Ora Resources

Youth Intervention

29. Break-Away