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Newsletter - Spring 2024

Kia ora koutou,Welcome to Community Living’s new look newsletter! We are planning to produce these quarterly as part of our commitment to keeping you informed. Hopefully many of you will have noticed a lift in our presence on social media recently (we’re on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok and YouTube) and we would love to engage with you there too.The end of 2024 is fast approaching and it will be remembered as a particularly tough year for the disabi...

Introducing the Nou Te Mana Pilot

Our vision at Community Living is “Disabled People Thriving in the Community”. This means putting power in the hands of people to live the life they choose in their communities. We call this Nou Te Mana – “the power is within you”.We are working on a pilot programme with a small group of people who are currently supported in our residential services. This programme will transform the services we provide so they and their whaanau are in control. This is the Nou Te Mana pilot....

Fish!

Some of the guys from Te Whare O Tuuhono went fishing in Raglan on Friday:Ryan B, Jordan H, Blake H, Ryan C, and Jordan Deane (staff). Everyone caught a fish (and aren't they whoppers!)...

Our strategy 2024-2027

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Community Living Quality - CLiQ

[video transcript follows]Kia Ora everyone,CLiQ is the name of the new Community Living quality framework.It stands for Community Living Quality. A quality framework is designed to tell us all how well we're doing at supporting the people that we're here to support.Obviously it's really important that we have a robust framework for that. We're about to start gathering data for the new framework, and we'll start by interviewing people we support who want to take part.There'll be a set of question...

Introducing Creative Crew

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From Emma

From Emma:"On Saturday the 15th of June we all got free rides on the train. Me and my flatmate Nicola along with our two staff went on Te Huia train from Frankton Hamilton. We got off the train in Auckland. We walked around Auckland, and went to a lovely market. Then we walked up Queen St to the Sky Tower it was fun! We had lunch at level 2 it was a nice restaurant. We all had burgers, chips and a drink for lunch. After lunch we had a look at the awesome casino.After that we went to the Weta Wor...

Te Whaariki 2024

We want to give a big Thank You to everyone who made Te Whaariki so great this year!First up, everyone who attended. We're so glad you could be there and we hope you loved it - whether learning something new or just hanging out with friends. A big thank you goes to Charity Smith and Neum Muliaumasealii - they were inspiring!Our amazing photographers Ron and Kathryn (We'll get the photos out as soon as we can)And of course all the organisations who came to share what they do - Ride Your Trike NZ,...

Community Living Annual Report 2023

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Community Living Staff Awards 2023

Congratulations to the winners of our 2023 staff awards! With 10 categories, we honoured winners from our 41 finalists drawn from 176 nominations. All 500+ of our staff do incredible work and it was great to recognise some standout examples from across the organisation....

CE Appointment

Community Living Trust and Community Living Limited are excited to announce the appointment of our new Chief Executive, Mr David Oldershaw. David has proven Chief Executive experience with health and social services organisations in the Not-for-Profit Sector, having been the CE for Pinnacle Midlands Health Network for many years.  He brings a strong commitment to our organisational purpose: disabled people thriving as part of the community. We would also like to acknowledge the exempla...

Community Living Annual Report 2022

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Chief Executive Announcement

Tēnā koutou katoa, It saddens me to inform you that Community Living Chief Executive, Warren Herring, has decided to step down from the role and retire for health reasons, effective immediately. Throughout his time with Community Living Warren has tirelessly championed disabled people. He has led enabling good lives at Community Living as well as being part of the Waikato EGL group, and has been instrumental in our rollout of EGL principles and services. As CE, Warren has led a new team t...

Covid-19 Update Feb 2022

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Lifestyle Choices becomes part of Community Living

Community Living and Lifestyle Choices are pleased to announce that Lifestyle Choices has today become a part of Community Living. Lifestyle Choices have been providing disability support services in the Tauranga, Katikati and Bay of Plenty area since 2001. From humble beginnings supporting just one person, Russell and Marie Smith have grown the organisation over the years to over 50 staff supporting many disabled people to live their lifestyle of choice. It’s an incredibly important service a...

Covid 19 Update September 2021

Welcome to Level 2-Delta!We hope you and yours are well.While it is officially "Level 2", it's not quite the same as it was last time around in 2020. Please stay safe and stay well,The Team at Community Living...

New Community Space in Brooklyn

Did you know we have a new Community Space about to open? Check out the video below!...

Community Newsletter for June 11th 2021

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Community Newsletter for April 14 2021

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Covid-19 Update March 2021

Alert Level: 1 Official government info site:www.covid19.govt.nz  Government helpline for COVID-19 related questions:0800 779 997 If you think you have COVID-19 symptoms, don't got to your GP, instead call:0800 358 5453It's a good idea to:wash our handssneeze and cough into our elbowskeep a track of where we've been and who we’ve seen (app here)(full details here)Community Living makes every effort to protect people we work for, our staff, and the wider community....

Newsletter for 29 March 2021

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Covid 19 Update September 2020

Kia Ora everyone, You will have seen that Level 2 will stay with us for another couple of weeks. We're happy to say that there have been no cases of Covid-19 at Community Living. Please read on for more information about buses! Sincerely,The Community Living team Changes to buses From Monday the 31st of August, everyone in New Zealand (with some exceptions) needs to have a face covering while travelling on a bus. Click here for more information from BUSIT Hamilton. Did you know that you ca...

COVID-19 Update 2

Tēnā koutou katoa,  There is a lot going on! Every day things are changing and all of us are adapting and supporting people to cope. I want to thank you all for your understanding at this time, and also thank our staff who are going above and beyond to keep people safe and well. Here are the main points to know right now: No staff member or person supported has the virus.All vocational services have now been closed. Vocational staff are moving to residential services.Community HBSS ...

COVID-19 Information

Tēnā koutou katoa,  New Zealand is preparing for the COVID-19 Coronavirus, as the particular strain is called.   As this happens I thought I would let you know that we too are preparing carefully. We have a business continuity plan (BCP), and are in contact with the Public Health Organisation and District Health Board teams. We are also continuously monitoring World Health Organisation and Ministry of Health communications and updates.   In New Zealand we’ve had...