
DIR – Funding Workshops

Look forward to seeing you all Wednesday 24th February 2021 at Franklin: The Centre upstairs in the Stevenson Room. Meeting will commence at 10.00am and finish at 12.00pm.
Agenda
Look forward to seeing you all, please remember to scan in using the COVID tracing app and continue physical distancing.
Our last meeting for the year is an opportunity to get to know each other better and to better understand what is available in our community.
*Please bring along brochures and pamphlets about your organisation – to share on the day and to leave some behind for our CNF display stand out side the library.
* Please be prepared to share briefly about you organisation with us all.
* Some of our “Generites” (people who have had the courage to step out and begin small businesses in our community)will bring some of the wares to display and to purchase if you wish, so bring some cash along with you.
Look forward to seeing you, there will be morning tea will be provided.
The purpose of the workshop was to follow up the results of a Community Forum conducted by CNF in September 2019 in order to guide the CNF Executive in future priorities and programme development.
The workshop was attended by 25 people all engaged in some form of social or community activism in the Franklin area. After each person introduced themselves a series of work group discussions took place with their focus on six areas of interest, concern and direction that had been identified at the CNF Community Forum in September 2019.
The six areas for focus and discussion:
The work groups provided extensive responses to each of these areas of discussion and these have been compiled into a comprehensive report to guide the CNF Executive in the next steps of programme planning and activity. A number of participants offered their assistance with specific areas of work and this is appreciated by the CNF Executive who will make contact with these people when those areas of work are developed.
In addition to all the detailed responses a number of overall themes emerged from the work groups and in a brief plenary discussion:
The CNF Executive thanks and applauds all those who took part in the workshop and contributed their input to the planning and development of future activities. The Executive has undertaken to work through all the responses and design forthcoming programmes as guided by this expression of community voice.
Contact:
Jan Wallace 027 452 1366 or email at Jan.wallace@xtra.co.nz
Cherie Milne cnfcherie@gmail.com
Please join us at the Community Networks Franklin Meeting
Wednesday 28th October 2020 10am to 12pm
Franklin: The Centre
upstairs in the Stevenson Room,
11 Massey Avenue, Pukekohe
AGENDA
Jan Wallace and Jill Lomas on Health in the Community
There will be an opportunity for networking while enjoying some light refreshments.
We look forward to seeing you and connecting with other local associations. Please RSVP to cnfcherie@gmail.com confirming attendance.
Brave Hearts are a free support service for people with loved ones with substance use and addiction issues. Our community has been directly affected by the agonising, daily trauma of having an addicted loved one.
Brave Hearts facilitates group meetings, provides phone support and can refer those who need it to counselling or other professional service providers.
Everyone is welcome
Monday 19 October at 6pm 521 Great South Rd, Manukau
Support and sharing with Caroline Cahill of Care NZ. You will be welcomed into this group of very supportive people who can relate to what you and your family are going through and know you are not, and do not have to be, alone in this.
For those of you who feel you would benefit from an individual family meeting we can do this in person or online. Please give us a call to book a time.
Meeting details are also available on our website www.bravehearts.nz and on our Facebook pages. For further information or a confidential chat, please phone 0508272834.
30th September 2020
Meeting held at Franklin: The Centre
Attendees
Danielia Jansen | Haumaru Housing | Rochelle Gillgren | Kids Count |
Hazel Davis | Grandparents raising grandchildren | Nikita Naea | Pukekohe North Community |
Lucy Pene | Pukekohe North School PTA | Jill Lomas | CMDHB |
Andrew Beyer | Anglican Church Bombay | Pania Wilson | Hon. Nanaia Mahuta |
Julie Kerr | Dementia Auckland | Christine Hurst | Whanau Resource Centre |
Chassy Kani | Toimauri Collective | Raquelfaster Te Anau | Kohatu Dance Co |
Janine Te Anau | Tri Kreationz | Tammy Potini | The Generator |
Helen Pulman | PYC | Jan Wallace | PCA |
Coral Timmins | Auckland Council | Anne Doddrell | Grandparents raising grandchildren |
Judith Tucker | Andrew Bayly MP | Ballot Kaur | Pokeno Community |
Welcome
Jan Wallace welcomed everyone to the meeting and all participants introduced themselves and the groups that they represent.
The six themes that were presented and were on at the workshop were:
Thanks to all for their input and participation on the day. Responses from the workshop have been collected and a report will be generated for consideration on what the next steps will be.
26th August 2020 / 10:00 AM / via Zoom
ATTENDEES
Welcome
Jan Wallace welcomed everyone to the meeting and all participants introduced themselves and the groups that they represent.
Guest Speakers – Rachel & Alex from Odyssey
Te Puawai Aroha
Te Puawai Aroha is a 4 day programme that Odyssey provide which is fully funded under supporting parents, healthy children initiative, providing hot lunches and transportation costs. It is a brief intervention for the whole whanau where the care giver has a mental health or addiction diagnoses with children between the ages of 8 to 16.
Over the 4 days the children attend from 9 to 3 daily, whereas the care givers or teenagers come later in the afternoon for the hot lunch and parental groups. The last day of the programme is a family fun day which is spent together building connections and memories, visiting places like Rainbows End or survival training programmes.
The programme is run in the school holidays in April, July and October and is available for families that reside in the Counties Manukau area. Participants must be referred by a mental health or addiction services or by their GP. The focus is to provide learning about mental health and addiction, resilience and connections through playing games and having fun. Also providing skills and coping strategies to deal with what the family has been going though already. Also connecting families that have had similar experiences to reduce the sense of isolation. Transport is covered by taxi chits and petrol vouchers as the parents need to be available to drop the children off and attend the lunch and paternal sessions.
Each group is learning what the whanau has been learning so that they have the same information and can work together as a team. It is a great place for the participants to discuss really personal things and get tools to strengthen them as a family and navigate the difficulties that they are trying to overcome as a family.
In the next school holidays, it will be run at Manukau City Baptist Church for the first week and at Elim Church for the second week. Each holiday the programme is held in a different area, a multi-use venue is required as a facility, the programme has not been run in the Franklin area yet but is being planned for next year.
Odyssey School Programme
All the staff members who go into the South Auckland schools are drug and alcohol counsellors, low decile schools to help young people make heathy decisions around drug and alcohol use. Offering one on one and group counselling courses, working with counsellors, nurse and social workers although 90% of the cliental is self-referrals. This can be the clients having issues with drug and alcohol or maybe a family member having issues. The groups are static as young people can enter and exit the programme depending on the support that they require.
Update from Andrew Beyer on Community Networks Workshop held 25th September 2019
From the workshop that was held last September a number of themes where identified by the community groups. There were representatives from the community groups, Iwi and voluntary organisations who used the Forum to explore some of the community issues facing Franklin. There was a subsequent meeting attended by the various community groups who went through the workshop report and from that six themes were identified and prioritised:
1.Continue to strengthen and further develop a community of information and support for the member organisations – monthly community meetings to continue as a source of information and inspiration and organisation and networking, electronic newsletters that is a useful point of gathering and spreading information and connection and exchange between our member organisations, to develop the CNF website with links for member organisations and skills and knowledge exchange and feedback on projects like the expo and community forums.
There is a community noticeboard in the foyer at the Franklin Centre where organisations can put their brochures.
2.Develop a focus for exploring and enabling collaboration – how do you match up organisations that could work together, have a section on the website seeking collaboration where groups can detail what they need or can offer, success story of collaboration. What information training or systems can CNF offer to assist in collaboration. This could also be represented on the website to provide a process for people to seek and identify potential collaborators. The website and other forms of communications could be identified where stories of collaboration could be collected, to show that working together can be valuable. Need to assess what skills or systems are required for organisations to enable collaboration?
3. Effective leadership and participation – enhancing and building on peoples skills, managing sensitive information in a confidential and trustworthy manner. How to establish what the pool of resource and knowledge is within the member organisations.
To provide training for community groups on how to access and apply for funding.
4. Training programmes and opportunities – CNF need to test and evaluate what training is required and how best to deliver the training.
The attendees of this workshop are likely to want to provide input on more than one topic, some thought on how this can be achieved on the day.
Promotion of the next community meeting and this workshop is reliant on the COVID gathering restrictions being changed to allow for more people to gather.
Other business
First Aid Training
Pukekohe Community Action needs to do First Aid training and if possible if there were other community groups where interested in attending this would spread the cost over a number of community groups.
Food parcels
Pukekohe Community Action is working alongside a number of agencies who have food parcels available. The numbers requested has being increasing, and the border restrictions have created some challenges getting food parcels into areas outside of the Auckland boarders.
The food parcels contents are changed depending on if the person bakes or makes soup. The COVID guidelines are being followed in preparation and delivery of food parcels. The basic food parcels that PCA are handing out have a value of $120 with the cost of nappies and baby formula addition to this.
Border restrictions
There has been a lot of confusion regarding the borders and who can cross and what paperwork is required to be able to cross. For some people who live in Tuakau and Pokeno it has been added pressure when you could not cross the border for Doctors visits or to do grocery shopping in Pukekohe.
Port Waikato MP Andrew Bayly is working in the community to assist with issues of crossing the border, this lockdown has been very stressful as some of the issues regarding the borders having not been anticipated. The guidelines on crossing the borders have not been as clear as they could have been.
Using PPE
Where community service groups are operating across the borders they are following COVID PPE protocols for level 3 even if they are working in a level 2 area. Also if transporting anyone in a community services vehicle they are being asked to sit in the back to maintain a distance from the driver. It is also essential that the COVID app is being used while out and about in the community.
People are wearing masks but are not necessarily wearing them correctly, or changing them often enough if using disposable masks and also disposing of them correctly. If using a reusable mask how long should the mask be worn before it should be washed. People are removing their masks to eat or talk and then putting the mask back on but may have contaminated the mask. Make sure that you are practising good hygiene practises by washing hands and using hand sanitiser.
Next meeting: 23rd September 2020 at The Franklin Centre, The Stevenson Room, 12 Massey Avenue, Pukekohe, this is dependent on number of people being able to gather changes from the current 10 people.
Meeting closed at 11.45
The Regional Community Development Grant 2020/2021 round is now open.
Applications will close on 18 October 2020 and a decision will be made in early December.
The maximum grant is $40,000 from a total of $295,000 available.
Only regional projects for these grants. Funding is not available for local projects, general operational costs, or individuals. For information on eligibility and what the programme supports, see About the Regional Community Development Grants Programme webpage.
The purpose of these grants is to support initiatives that will help create a strong, inclusive, and fair society that ensures opportunities for all Aucklanders. We recognize that this is now more important than ever. The grant will prioritise communities who need us most. In addition, priorities will be applications that:
Please find the link to create your application here: https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/grants-community-support-housing/grants/regional-grants/Pages/grant-details.aspx?itemID=51
If you have any questions, please get in touch with Catherine George (Catherine.george@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz) after 7 September 2020, or send any urgent queries to Sam Mills (Sam.Mills@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz).
At the next Community Networks Franklin meeting there will time set aside for a workshop on the organisation directions. This will build on the areas that were identified by the community groups at the 2019 Community Networks Forum. There was representatives from the community groups, Iwi and voluntary organisations who used the 2019 Community Networks Forum to explore some of the community issues facing us in Franklin, and, importantly, seek a path to solving them.
The six themes that were identified and prioritised at the Forum were:
Community Networks Franklin will ensure effective facilitation for the workshop. With the focus of the workshop being for the participants to have their say, share their learnings and stories across the six themes.