Woman arrested after investigation into sexual allegations at Marlborough Boys’ College

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/114510389/woman-arrested-after-investigation-into-sexual-allegations-at-marlborough-boys-college A 37-year-old woman has been charged following an investigation into sexual allegations at a Blenheim school. Police said the woman, understood to be a former teacher at Marlborough Boys’ College, would appear at the Blenheim District Court on Monday charged with sexual connection with a young person under 16 and intentionally exposing a young…

Te Pou – Working with older people

With the Baby Boomer generation (people born between 1946 and 1964) comes greater diversity in gender identity, relationships and sexuality compared to their parents and grandparents’ generations (Department of Health, 2015; Westwood et al., 2015) . There is also increasing religious and spiritual diversity among older people, due in part to greater religious freedom and…

Maximum jail term for third strike child sex offender who lurked in toy aisles

http://bit.ly/2Mlt195 The 10-year-old girl choosing a birthday present in the Warehouse toy aisle did not know the grey haired man behind her was a sex offender about to earn his third strike in five years. Innocently she told him it was her birthday and she was picking presents with her mum who was in another…

Short term costs are likely to go up, but the long term costs are likely to come down.

http://bit.ly/2SvwcfA The Auckland District Health Board (ADHB) is putting its managers through training modules as part of a plan to eliminate institutional racism. A report to the board said racism was a basic underlying cause of poor health outcomes for Māori and Pacific people. David Tipene-Leach, who chairs Te Ora, the Māori Medical Practitioners Association,…

Addiction nursing – Matua Raḵi

Addiction nursing is in good hands with these leaders! Great insights at today’s Addiction Nurses Symposium. ⁦@minhealthnz⁩ ⁦@nznep⁩ ⁦@DavidClarkNZ⁩ ⁦@shearer_robyn⁩ ⁦@WaikatoDHB⁩ ⁦@nzdrug⁩ pic.twitter.com/YeYezRrEcE — NZAddictionWorkforce (@MatuaRaki) July 29, 2019 https://www.matuaraki.org.nz/workforce-groups/addiction-nursing/155 Matua Raḵi supports the development of addiction nursing expertise and recognises the specialist knowledge and skills they bring to the addiction treatment sector. We work…

Multiple personality disorder

https://dopasolution.com/multiple-personality-disorder/ What is a multiple personality disorder? With a quick search, you could end up with a bunch of explanations. Some of those explanations sound really far out, whereas others are more clinical. Most of the definitions and explanations you’ll find for dissociative identity disorder, which is what it’s currently known as, make it seem…

Swiss women strike to demand equal pay

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/14/swiss-women-strike-demand-equal-pay Hundreds of thousands of women across Switzerland have taken to the streets to demand higher pay, greater equality and more respect, protesting that one of the world’s wealthiest countries continues to treat half its population unfairly. Nearly 30 years after the first nationwide equal rights demonstration by Swiss women, a “purple wave” of pram…

Twenty-plus school teachers struck off after sex-crime convictions over five years

http://bit.ly/2ZbMdtD More than 20 teachers have had their registration cancelled after being convicted of sex offences in the past five years. And more than 330 have had allegations of sexual misconduct made against them. This year alone, five teachers have been struck off and 82 have faced or are facing allegations. The Teaching Council provided…

“Sometimes the first draft of history is wrong ― especially when no one fact checks it,”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/al-franken-jane-mayer-new-yorker_n_5d35a516e4b0419fd32feb86?section=politics&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000016 The 68-year-old former “Saturday Night Live” cast member told Mayer that he regrets having made some women uncomfortable, but pushed back on how his actions were characterized by his eight accusers. “The idea that anybody who accuses someone of something is always right ― that’s not the case,” Franken said. “That isn’t reality.” Franken,…

Trauma is irreversible. How it shapes us is our choice. | Sasha Joseph Neulinger | TEDxBozeman

Sasha Joseph Neulinger speaks about his journey in life as a survivor of multi-generational sexual abuse. Sasha Joseph Neulinger is a native of Pennsylvania who moved to Montana to pursue a BFA in Film Production from Montana State University. He is the Co-Founder and Head of Production at Step 1 Films which has a mission…