The Hub has been set up to focus on services and programmes for youth. The Hub is a centre that builds, creates, helps, and unites young people in a non-judgemental, friendly and relaxed environment. The community created the Hub late 2002, for the youth in Nelson. It provides the young people with the next step in any positive direction that they wish to take. The Small Grants Fund will provide funding to the Hub specifically for the training of the first intake of Peer Support Workers. The training will be based around the philosophy and aims of the Hub, communication skills, empowerment values, personal limitations, resource knowledge, Treaty of Waitangi and current overview of youth issues.

Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Trust, North Shore, Auckland
Shakespear Holiday Camp, total funding: $1826.58

The Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Trust was set up to provide support to grandparents who are the primary caregivers of grandchildren in difficult circumstances and to ensure fair treatment from the legal and children protection services in NZ, in order to stabilise and normalise the life of the children. The children often come from homes where the parents are abusive, neglectful, violent, mentally ill or substance abusers. The children have behavioural problems and are often traumatised because of their experiences. They are emotional and scholastically behind in their development. They might have physical difficulties and other health problems as a result of the abusive homelife they have suffered. The Small Grants Fund allocation will go towards the cost of sending children to the Shakespear Holiday Camp. By attending the camp the children will become more confident and happier in themselves and the grandparents will receive respite from the twenty-four hour job they have taken on.

Te Manawa Services Charitable Trust, Feilding
Pilot Community Building Blocks Youth Anger Management Programme, total funding: $2770.31

This organisation provides free support to the people in the Manawatu area. It is a service for families who wish to break the cycles of violence and abuse which they may be going through. The service focuses on supporting families and individuals into self-empowerment and provides a structure of learning and accountability where men, women and children can have access to the appropriate help. The Youth Management Programme provides a much needed service to the youth and children, the impact is extremely positive. The Small Grants Fund will provide the funds for the Service Coordinator to develop and evaluate the programme.

Stop Demand Foundation, St Lukes, Auckland
Start Up Costs and Selected Running Costs, total funding: $3151.13

Stop Demand Foundation has been established as a separate legal entity to work alongside, but separate from, ECPAT NZ Ltd Inc. The Stop Demand Foundation’s focus is on all forms of sexual violence against children from the “demand" aspect. Its position is that in order to reduce or eliminate sexual violence against children, the community must address underlying beliefs and attitudes which view children as sexual and commercial objects. The Small Grants Fund will enable the Stop Demand Foundation to design a website which will increase the knowledge of the general public, so they will be more aware of the signs and behaviour of those who are being abused.

DisAbility Resource Centre, Gisborne
Purchase of Equipment, total funding: $2250

The DisAbility Resource Centre, Tairawhiti, promotes disability awareness to the public as well as providing information and advice for people with disabilities. The DisAbility Resource Centre works with CCS, IHC, the Like Minds Project, and the Blind Foundation, to provide packages that are both flexible and comprehensive. The format of the programme generally has four components: 1) Theoretical which looks at the language around disability and the barriers created by society: 2) Reflection where people with disabilities discuss their experiences and this takes the format as a question and answer session: 3) Experimental, which involves participants donning equipment that stimulates certain impairments and moving around their environment: 4) Evaluation of the course and the evaluation of the environment for people with disabilities, are discussed by participants noting any possible improvements. The Small Grants Fund will enable the Trust to purchase equipment that will be used to raise people’s awareness of disability and enable them to hire to people with disabilities.

Open Home Foundation, Waikato
Children’s Holiday Camp, total funding: $2250

The Open Home Foundation is based in Hamilton and is committed to preventative social work and foster care for children from birth to 17. It is the work of the Open Home Foundation to respond to situations where children and young people who come from an unsettled or disturbed environment can feel insecure, unloved and of little worth. They aim to empower families to overcome their difficulties and so be able to bring love and security into the lives of these children. This is done through social work, foster care, parenting education, counselling mentoring and youth programmes.

Part of the service is to offer respite to families with unsettled children. The families have found enormous value and progress for children attending school holiday camps. Children who have difficulty with relationships and lack confidence with other children are able to explore these areas over an intense period of time with experienced adult supervision. Along with this, the wide scope of activities offered on a camp and a totally different focus can only bring positive outcomes for children. The Small Grants Fund will send to Finlay Park Adventure Camp some of the children the Open Home Foundation are working with.

Parent to Parent, Waikato
Sibling Camp and Support Programme, total funding: $2505.38

Parent to Parent Waikato is part of the national organisation, Parent to Parent New Zealand Inc. It is a voluntary organisation, which has been providing a service to Greater Waikato since 1984. The service provides support and information to families who have children with disabilities and health impairments. There are 57 trained volunteer Support Parents and one employee, a Regional Co-ordinator for 32 hours a week.

Siblings experience stress and difficulties as a result of having a brother or sister in the family with a disability. They often feel anger, embarrassment, guilt, resentment and isolation because of their situation and their stresses add to the difficulties that their families have to cope with. These issues are addressed by offering workshops in a fun, supportive camp setting. This provides friendships with others in similar circumstance because they too have a brother or sister with a disability. These friendships provide siblings with their own support network, long after the camp. The siblings will learn strategies to help them in their own situations and gain strength from the knowledge that there are others living similar lives. The Small Grants Fund will go towards the cost of two facilitators, camp parent costs and volunteer costs for the Sibling Camp Support Programme.

Auckland Sexual Abuse HELP Foundation
Total funding: $2000

Auckland Sexual Abuse HELP Foundation provides support, advocacy and counselling to survivors of sexual abuse and assault in the Auckland region. The Small Grants Fund has provided funding towards the costs of running a preschool prevention programme called ‘We Can Keep Safe’ at preschool centres in the Auckland region.‘We Can Keep Safe’ is a lively, interactive initiative for 3 to 7 year olds which deals with issues of personal safety, focusing on sexual abuse prevention. The programme includes the participation of both children and caregivers, fostering an environment in which the child’s community becomes actively involved in their ecducation. The aim of ‘We Can Keep Safe’ is the on going reduction of sexual violence.

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