Hauora Highlights for 2024

This is a great time to reflect on the year and spend it with loved ones.

The Hauora Team will be on holiday break from Friday 13 December - Monday 27 January 2025. We understand that the holidays can be a long time and with services stopping for the Christmas break its important to know what potential supports are available.  Please see a small list below of some services.

 

DO YOU NEED HELP NOW?

- Need to talk? Free call or text 1737 support from trained counsellor

- Child, Adolescent & Family (CAF) Emergency Team (Business hours) 0800 218 219 - press 2

- Crisis Resolution, Freephone 0800 920 092, (After hours), 7 days a week.

- Youthline – 0800 376 633 or free text 234

- Lifeline – 0800 543 354

- Outline - 0800 688 5463 (6pm-9pm) Rainbow Support: talk to a trained volunteer from the LGBTIQ+ community

- Suicide Crisis Helpline – 0508 828 865 (0508 TAUTOKO)

- What's Up – 0800 942 8787 (5–18 year olds). Phone counselling Monday to Friday, midday–11pm  and weekends, 3pm–11pm. 

-thelowdown.co.nz, or email team@thelowdown.co.nz or free text 5626

- Safe to Talk (If affected by sexual harm) 0800044334; Txt 4334.

- Aviva (Family Violence Services). 0800 28 48 26

- Are you OK? (Domestic Violence) - 0800 456 450 - 24/7 support

- Ola Lelei Pacific Helpline - 0800 652 535 - Support 8.30am - 8.30pm

If it is an emergency or you, or someone you know, is at immediate risk call 111

Our Groups

This year we have been thrilled to see the positive impact of some of the programmes our youth worker has been running alongside Waipuna. We will be running some awesome programmes in 2025, including a surfing programme, an art programme and jiu jitsu classes at Oceanside Jiu Jitsu. 

The surf programme is a partnership with Waipuna, we take ākonga to the beach (New Brighton or Sumner) where they are taught by surfing instructors from Waipuna. The purpose of this programme is to build  ākonga hauora by experiencing challenges and achievement, being physically active in the natural world and fostering relationships with other  ākonga. 

The art programme is run out of Waipuna (on Woodham Road). This year ākonga have made masks, done paint pouring/throwing, made wreaths, dried flower bouquets, decorated cupcakes and much more. Akonga enjoy being in a new and different environment, engaging with different textiles and types of art, and appreciate spending time together and making new connections. 

The jiu jitsu programme is run out of Oceanside Jiu Jitsu, teaching ākonga self defence, breathing techniques, and giving ākonga a place to be active, have fun, and enjoy learning new things.

SWiS

Our Stand SWiS has been busy working with a number of family’s and running several groups this term around friendships, social skills, emotions and wellbeing. We have had a number of kids do stays up the Stand village over the last few months and they have adored their time doing lots of social/emotional learning, through activities such as swimming, horse riding, going to Rapaki Marae and the sensory room at Pioneer Pool. If you or your whanau would like to be supported by Stand Tu Maia and your child is aged between year 1 and 8, talk with Justine or a member of the Hauora team and we can talk about a referral hauora1@haeata.school.nz.

New Youth Worker

We would also like to welcome Lucy Clearwater to our team. Lucy has been a kaiawhina at Haeata working with ākonga across the school. She will now be based in our Hauora Team as a Youth Worker. Lucy will support year 9 to 13 ākonga with programmes and activities outside of the classroom. 

We are stoked to have Lucy join the team.