National Promotions We Support in Waipa

​Please find following a list of events we currently support and links to their websites.
What you will learnIn six sessions, over twelve weeks, this course is packed full of ideas, positive stories from parents still on the journey with their own tamariki and useful resources to help you build a great future for your whānau. The activities in this course cover tamariki aged 0–12 years.  You are the most important person to your tamariki.  Your facilitator will draw on the wealth of wisdom and experiences present in the group, and weave that together with all that is Building Awesome Whanau, so that you are supported and encouraged as you awhi (nurture) and build YOUR awesome whanau.


Topics covered
  • Session 1 – Laying the foundations – building your family on aroha
  • Session 2 – Parents are the roof! Protecting your whānau
  • Session 3 – The walls of the whare – boundaries to keep the good stuff in and the bad stuff out
  • Session 4 – Keeping it sweet – atmosphere is everything!
  • Session 5 – Cool korero! Communication
  • Session 6 – Outside the whare – Living in the big wide world


​Starting Wednesday 20th May 7-8.30pm : https://www.theparentingplace.com/event/baw-national-15192/
Starting Thursday 21st May 10.30am-12pm : https://www.theparentingplace.com/event/baw-national-14881/
Starting Wednesday 27th May 10am-12pm: https://www.theparentingplace.com/event/baw-hamilton-14877/
Starting Friday 29th May 10.30am-12pm: https://www.theparentingplace.com/event/baw-national-14882/

 

​
Picture
POSTPONED

​Pink Shirt Day 2020 has been postponed, but stay tuned for updates! Celebrated annually around the globe, Pink Shirt Day began in Canada in 2007 when two students took a stand against homophobic bullying, after a peer was bullied for wearing a pink shirt. In Aotearoa, Pink Shirt Day aims to create schools, workplaces, communities and whānau where all people feel safe, valued and respected. Register to join the movement!

https://www.pinkshirtday.org.nz/
​
Picture

Past Events in Waipa

​Please find following links to events that we have hosted or have been asked to help promote.

In learning this HAKA through the quarantine period of COVID-19 you are part of uniting + supporting whānau to live free of violence.
The #HakaAgainstViolence online challenge runs from 1st May to the 15th May. 
Mauri Ora whānau!
Let’s #hakaagainstviolence

Successful Parenting Waikato​ Series​ free online sessions is on again this Saturday 9 May and 16 May 11am - 12pm

​www.facebook.com/DestinyFamilyServicesWaikato/?__tn__=%2Cd%2CP-R&eid=ARDQqo4lS4QVdZnyTMw30r3I3tczAVhAvb2ilxQiUqroVS3Wyzmtk2QfLKwz_yL7zFDjZ2vnhlm-Eh2Y
Picture
MARCH:
Join hundreds of schools, workplaces, clubs, businesses and individuals throughout New Zealand in March to Shine A Light
​ on domestic violence by signing up to ‘Light it Orange’ and help victims of domestic violence get safe and stay safe.
 
Resources available from:
http://www.2shine.org.nz/index-orange

 In Her Shoes
​​Hikoi for Change. Join us to take a stand as one team united against violence.  
Date: Monday 25 November 2019
Time: 1pm to 2pm
Venue:  Starts at Ministry of Social Development, Sloane St
​For more details visit:
https://www.facebook.com/events/3027904350558982
Thirty Days of Kindness
Join us at www.fb.com/violencefreewaipa for a thirty days of kindness. Each day we will post a new act of kindness for you to do.