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The issue of suicide in New Zealand has recently been prominent in the
media. The question has been talking more openly about suicide as a society.
This is an important debate, and a first step in acknowledging the problem.

The sad fact is that more people die by suicide than are killed on our roads
each year. Between 10 and 15 people each week complete suicide; as many as
10 times that figure engage in risky behaviours which can result in
hospitalisation. Also present behind these statistics are the whanau,
friends and colleagues affected by the traumatic loss of a loved one,
co-worker or buddy. Suicide is a problem occurring in our communities every
day.

Okay, but what can we do?

Lifeline Aotearoa works in suicide prevention education, and presents the
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) workshop on a monthly
basis in the greater Auckland region.

ASIST is a practical workshop teaching participants to recognise suicide
signs, intervene and support with confidence, and link those at risk to
appropriate support services. The aim of the two-day workshop is to help you
become more ready, willing and able to respond safely and effectively to
someone you hold concern for.

ASIST represents a community response to a community problem.

As an on-going support for yourself and your organisation, ASIST graduates
are eligible for the half-day refresher course, called Tune-Up. Usually run
6 months to a year following the main course, it is a great way to reconnect
with the material and with other caregivers/kaiawhina in the area.

We have one course left at the pre GST rise price of $360 per person. The
date is September 23 & 24, to be held in Greenlane.

Places are limited and we don't want you to miss out so be in quick!

Early registration is essential. Enrol on-line at www.livingworks.org.nz
<http://www.livingworks.org.nz/> <http://www.livingworks.org.nz
<http://www.livingworks.org.nz/> >

For more information please contact me directly. I look forward to hearing
from you!

Ben Scott

Customer Liaison
Suicide Prevention Education
Lifeline Aotearoa
    

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Teach parents to manage difficult behaviour in children aged 2 - 12 years

Auckland Thursday 11th November at Onehunga Community Centre, 83 Church St,
Onehunga

Registration Fee:  $259 per person or Early Bird $235 if paid on or before
21/10/10

Who's running it?
The presenter of this course is Michael Hawton, a psychologist, who has over
20 years of experience working with children and families.

For more information please visit the website www.collaborative.org.nz
<http://www.collaborative.org.nz/> or www.parentshop.co.nz
<http://www.parentshop.co.nz/>
    

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Enjoy the read - to view click
<http://www.communitywaitakere.org.nz/images/noticeboard/sepnews.pdf>  here:


We have a few spaces left in the Colin Walker workshop on the 25th September
so if you are keen or know someone who is please get in touch.

Working bee on the 18th September, I will provide Sausages, please bring a
plate to share. Let me know if you are coming and are a vegetarian so I can
get the right amount of sausages.

Mauri Ora
Buffie Mawhinney
Ranui Community Garden Coordinator
<email obscured>  <email obscured>>
09 832 6049
021 272 1214
    

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Hi Everyone,

Just a reminder that there is a great 'Donor Marketing' Workshop happening
in Te Atatu this Thursday. If you want to raise the profile of your
organisation without spending any money OR you want to start generating more
donations and regular gifts - you will want to be at this workshop.
Discover:
. 25 Ways to raise the profile of your organisation with next-to-no budget
. How to use your increased profile to help you secure more donations, more
sponsorship and more support
. How to make the most of your press releases, brochures, newsletters and
presentations so that you actually get the results you want
. How to write effective donor letters so that your supporters continue to
give
and
. How to avoid the 10 most common mistakes groups make in their donor
marketing
If you have never been to one of our workshops before, this is a great one
to get you started.

When: Thursday 9th September, 9.30am - 4pm

Where: Te Atatu South Community Centre, Edmonton Road, Te Atatu South

Cost: $90

All workshop participants receive a free copy of the latest Tonic Magazine
and our popular e-book '40 Marketing Must Dos for Community Groups'. That's
$60 of value right there!
To register email <email obscured>  <email obscured>> today.
Workshop is this Thursday - so be quick.
See you there.
Kerri and Tracy
    

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Tuesday 7 September
WAKE UP WAITAKERE- AGAIN

Community Waitakere has issued another call to action for Waitakere
residents, this time to vote in the upcoming local elections, a postal vote
that opens September 17 and closes October 9.

Community Waitakere co-led a major campaign against the government's 'Super
City' reforms, under the banner of the Community Coalition for Auckland:
Voices of Tamaki Makaurau (CC4A) supported by about 70 other community
organisations.

"We had over 1000 people in the streets of Henderson within days of the
government's hijack of the  Royal Commission's report on Regional
Governance," said Tony Mayow, Community Waitakere Chair and Coalition
spokesperson.

"Our catch cry was Wake up Waitakere," said Mr Mayow, "and we ran a
vociferous campaign to defend the gains we've made here against the
horrendous model put forward under the influence of the Act Party."

"We didn't succeed in stopping it, that was never possible, but the enormous
upsurge of community outrage did make a huge difference to the ultimate
model, and the opportunity now exists to strengthen and consolidate the Eco
City in the larger region, rather than lose it all."

'Now we say it again: Wake up Waitakere! Don't leave it to chance and let
somebody else make the decisions for us. Get out there and exercise your
vote for the candidates you really want, those who will preserve the
Waitakere Way, and make sure it becomes the way the new city works."

"Only our own apathy will let us down now, there are plenty of quality
positive candidates standing.  Think through what they stand for, and
regardless of who you vote for, exercise your civic right and your pride in
Waitakere.  Stand up and be counted by voting."
Community Waitakere has already held a meeting with one of the two leading
mayoral candidates, Manukau Mayor Len Brown, and will be meeting separately
with Auckland Mayor John Banks in the near future, to discuss the issues of
Waitakere's communities in depth.

Community Waitakere will release assessments of those discussions to help
inform voters both publicly and on their website
www.communitywaitakere.org.nz  <http://www.communitywaitakere.org.nz/> .

"We will do our best to keep voters informed, but then it's entirely over to
the community, in this make or break election,' says Mr Mayow, "As they say,
use it or lose it!"
Ends

 For further information:  Tony Mayow Chair, Community Waitakere
  <email obscured>  <email obscured>>  09 8373456 021 130 9794
    

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Logo - Final





T koe, otiru me ngini atanga o te w Huri atu te pau
mai te ao.
    

Please find attached Panui in regard to Whanganui Hui-a-Iwi.



Heoi Ano



Deb



Deborah Te Riaki

Te Totarahoe o Paerangi

Ngati Rangi Trust

PO Box 195

OHAKUNE 4625



Office 06 3859 500 - Mobile 027 238 6005 - Fax 06 3859 501 - Home 06 3858
914

        email <email obscured> web www.kahuimaunga.com

When:     Wednesday 15th September 2010

Where:    13 Pisces Road, Glen Eden

Time:      7.00pm

RSVP by Monday 13th September 2010 to:

Leanne Appleby, Phone 818 2194  or email  <email obscured>
<email obscured>>
    

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Tena koutou katoa
Take action in September to enhance streamsides, beaches and sea and help to
combat marine debris!

. Conservation Week from 12-19th September
. National Clean Up Week from 17-24th September
. International Coastal Cleanup Day on 25th September 2010
www.ecoevents.org.nz/coastal-clean-up is a dedicated page for information
about coastal cleanup activities in the Auckland region.  Through this page
you can:
. Learn about marine debris and why beach cleanups are so important.
. Access useful tools and resources to help you organise and promote beach
cleanups including a litter hotspots map.
. Find out about beach cleanup events in the Auckland region happening in
September and at other times of the year.
. Follow some useful links to websites and videos that can tell you more
about marine debris.

We encourage you to visit Ecoevents -  http://www.ecoevents.org.nz/   and
join up to list any clean up events that you are organising. Coastal Clean
Up events will automatically be linked to the Coastal Clean Up page.

Register on the National Clean Up Week website -
http://nationalcleanupweek.knzb.org.nz/   to receive a pack to help you run
your Clean Up Week event and bags to collect rubbish and recyclables.

Do you already carry out regular beach cleanups? If so, we would love to
hear from you to add your beach and group details to our map,
http://www.ecoevents.org.nz/content/auckland-litter-hotspots

Please forward this message to others who might be interested.
We look forward to your participation in beach clean ups during September
2010.

Kind regards
Liz Ross
Auckland Regional Council
<email obscured>  <email obscured>>
Phone 09 366 2000 ext 8667
    

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Reminder: Next Roundtable- Wednesday 8 September 2010, 10am to Midday
Venue: Centre for Global Development, 2nd Floor, James Smiths Building, Corner
of Cuba and Manners Streets, Wellington

Tena koutou katoa, nga mihi nui kia koe - All are Welcome. Feel free to forward
this invite, and the newsletter, to others who may be interested. ANGOA
disseminates this information as part of its work to strengthen the Tangata
Whenua Community and Voluntary Sector in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Any enquiries, to be added to the Roundtable mail list, or to be removed from
it, please contact ANGOA Coordinator: <email obscured> .

Whakaarohia a Papatūānuku i mua i te tānga mai i tēnei īmera.
          Please consider the environment before printing this newsletter
    

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See the newsletter attached for more detail, plus more news including:

Employment Relations Amendment Bill #2; Submissions close Next Monday

“This bill makes changes in the areas of union access to workplaces, collective
bargaining, the personal grievance system, employment institutions, and the
role and enforcement powers of inspectors.”
See:
http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/PB/SC/MakeSub/c/0/6/49SCTIR_SCF_00DBHOH_BILL10127_1-Employment-Relations-Amendment-Bill.htm

The parliamentary website link above gives access to the Hansard report of the
debate when the Bill was introduced on 19 August.

ANGOA encourages sector organisations to make submissions on this Bill - the
closing date is only a week away. There is wide concern the Government is
pushing ahead with an agenda that has been shown not to work, and in fact has a
deeply corrosive effect on workplace conditions, pay, and the wellbeing of
workers and their families. For two independent perspectives, see below

2.1	Council of Trade Unions view on the Employment Relations Amendment
Bill #2
The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions views the Employment Relations
Amendment Bill as a massive attack on workers’ rights with the effect of
undermining all New Zealanders’ job security. This Bill is being rushed through
at record speed. The due date for submissions is Monday the 13th of September.

The CTU has developed an on line submission and a more detailed analysis to
assist community organisations submit the Employment Relations Amendment Bill.
A basic submission guideline is available at:
http://fairness.org.nz/onlinesubmissioner

For a more detailed analysis go to this link:
http://fairness.org.nz/sites/fairness/files/SubmissionGuideERNo2a.doc
(word version)
http://fairness.org.nz/sites/fairness/files/SubmissionGuideERNo2.pdf
The CTU calls on people to “stand together and oppose this attack on our Work
Rights and Support Fairness at Work – see the campaign site at www.union.org.nz

2.2	Maori Party view on the Employment Relations Amendment Bill
Excerpt from a speech by Hone Harawira, Maori Party Member of Parliament for Te
Tai Tokerau “Maori Party employment policy is to support the right for workers
to be treated with dignity and fairness, so when the Minister said when
introducing this bill that “government is committed to producing an employment
relations system that is fair, pragmatic and helps to give New Zealanders more
opportunities and flexibility”, it sounded good … but the relentless increase
in unemployment confirms that this 90-day trial that we’ve had since March last
year, and which this bill aims to extend, is having none of the positive
effects that government has been touting, and the statistics showing that 25%
of those who got jobs under this scheme have since been fired, tells us that we
were right to oppose it when it first came to the house.

Carl Davidson

Chief Commissioner, Families Commission

invites you to a panel discussion and forum on the

principles, value and practices of kaupapa Māori research
in the State Sector

To be held at

Pipitea Marae

55 Thorndon Quay, Wellington

Wednesday 15 September 2010

Pōwhiri at 4.30pm

The korero will focus on the context of kaupapa Māori research, its importance
and relevance to Māori, to research generally, and its value as an influence on
the development of policy and service delivery, especially as it impacts upon
whānau.

Te Kōmihana ā Whānau will also use this forum to release its new

kaupapa Māori research report

Whānau Taketake  Māori: Recessions and Māori Resilience

This paper brings together strong quantitative evidence, interwoven with a
compelling qualitative narrative, which tells of the resilience that comes from
the strength of whānau, hapū and iwi. It shows that supporting whānau to
achieve a strong base of assets and resources – cultural, social, economic
and environmental – in turn supports Māori, individually and collectively, to
resist and survive the worst impacts of recession.

Our panelists are

·         Dr Charlotte Severne (Māori Development and Oceans Manager, NIWA)

·         Dr Fiona Cram (Director, Katoa Ltd – Kaupapa Māori Research)

·         Sir Edward Durie (Retired Chief Judge of the Māori Land Court and

·         Former Chair, Waitangi Tribunal)

·         Dr Wiremu Doherty (Te Wānanga O Te Awanuiārangi)

RSVP by 13 September
Penny Dring-Aust

 <email obscured>> <email obscured>

04 917 7055

AIO ki te Aorangi ...

Dr Kathie Irwin

Rakaipaaka, Ngati Kahungunu, Ngati Porou

Kaitatari Matua Maori (Chief Analyst Policy, Research, Maori)

Families Commission

L6, Public Trust Building,

117 - 115 Lambton Quay,

Wellington NZ.

Ph 04 917 7040; Fax 04 917 7059: DDI 04 - 931 - 7086

Email:  <email obscured>> <email obscured>

Website:  <http://www.nzfamilies.org.nz/> www.nzfamilies.org.nz

Giving New Zealand families a voice Te reo o te whānau