https://www.acc.co.nz/newsroom/stories/ngai-tahu-and-acc-to-build-new-central-city-dunedin-acc-office/ Ngāi Tahu Property and ACC today signed an agreement to build a new state-of-the-art ACC office building in Ōtepoti Dunedin. Construction is set to get underway in 2021 at the site of the Dowling Street Carpark. The building, which is a 50:50 joint venture between Ngāi Tahu Property andContinue Reading
Click to access executive-summary-now-we-are-8.pdf “Extraordinary things emerge from following thousands of ordinary lives” – adapted from Helen Pearson (The Life Project) The Now We Are Eight Report continues the series of “Now We Are” reports, adding child-centred descriptive information about the cohort children’s wellbeing and development in middle childhood, inContinue Reading
Growing Up in New Zealand (GUiNZ) is Aotearoa’s largest contemporary longitudinal study of child development. The study has followed a cohort of more than 6,000 children since just before they were born around 2009 or 2010. The purpose of regularly collecting this data is to gain policy-relevant evidence about whatContinue Reading
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/and-running/202012/behind-the-scenes-sarcasm The truth is, chronically-sarcastic people frequently rely on this obfuscation to express emotions and communicate. These folks also often harbor passive-aggressive characteristics and simply don’t have the ability to be real about emotions, or fear confrontation were they to speak their mind. They therefore employ sarcasm, a sort ofContinue Reading
Five years ago, the sudden death of Lucy’s 12-year-old daughter Abi forced Lucy to turn her academic training and professional practice to foster resilience in very personal circumstances. The blog she wrote in the aftermath of Abi’s death attracted international attention and resulted in the best-selling non-fiction title, What AbiContinue Reading
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 1Continue Reading
I also had a real concern because I was picking up cases where families had had a lot of different interventions tried over several years with no fundamental change in the relationship dynamics between children and their parents and during that time, of course, incidents of abuse or chronic neglectContinue Reading
https://www.orangatamariki.govt.nz/about-us/news/toro-atu-o-ringaringa-reach-out-your-hands/ Oranga Tamariki has signed its seventh Strategic Partnership Agreement with iwi. Oranga Tamariki Chief Executive Grainne Moss spoke at the event about the existing close connections with both iwi. “This is the first time we have signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement with an iwi collective, and we respect andContinue Reading
Peer Supporter Alex Walker discusses his journey as a mental health peer supporter during COVID-19, and how the mutuality between peer supporters and the peers they support formed a strong foundation for “weathering the storm”. This video story highlights the power of connection. It illustrates how working in the mentalContinue Reading
https://www.sundayworld.com/lifestyle/real-life/im-over-6ft-im-athletic-i-didnt-think-i-was-going-to-believed-the-impact-of-sexual-assaults-on-men-39869504.html “I never reported my rape to the police,” said Jack* who was assaulted by someone he considered a close friend. “I’m over 6ft. I’m athletic. I didn’t think I was going to be believed. You never think that someone would de-power you with a horse tranquillizer. “I was 19,Continue Reading
