We have purchased our new infant and child training dummies. These are an incredible help to enable our crew to be trained to the highest possible standard. These will allow our crew to be ready for all emergencies with babies and children in Hawke’s Bay and will no doubt help them to save lives in […]
Since May 2021, the Hawke’s Bay branch of House of Science has been working to improve the scientific literacy of students across the region. We do this by providing primary and intermediate schools with access to a library of comprehensive, bilingual, hands-on science resource kits. We currently offer 43 different kits, covering all aspects of
Thank you to Hawke’s Bay Children’s Holding Trust for the support provided in December. The funding was used towards our Mentor Coordinator fees. Our Mentor Coordinators support mentored matches through recruiting, vetting and training new mentors, facilitating new match meetings, maintaining relationships with schools and social workers, and providing ongoing support and supervision of new
Central Hawke’s Bay Parenting Support Services (CHBPSS) is a social-services led, not-for-profit organisation focusing on the health and wellbeing of Central Hawke’s Bay families. Through early intervention, we strive to establish sound communication and connections between parents and their tamariki with the aim of raising independent, capable, strong and self-reliant rangatahi. CHBPSS is grateful for
Family Works is a specialised team with a strong family harm skillset. The group of social workers, counsellors, and Social Workers in Schools provide quality support to children and families, despite the challenges of recent years. They want to see communities reaching their full potential. “We are big on wraparound support and do a lot
Soon after Cyclone Gabrielle hit Hawke’s Bay in February 2023, the trustees met to see if there was an appropriate response we could make. After some discussion, and conversations within our community networks, we decided to have both a short-term response, and a response about seven months down the track. Within a couple of months,
Our Foodbank has experienced a significant increase in demand over the past 18 months this is due to many contributing factors such as Job uncertainty, housing crisis and more than anything the continual increase in the cost of living. We are seeing more and more low-income working families needing our support and by accepting assistance
A thank you received from Life Education Trust Hawkes Bay…
“Life Education Trust Hawkes Bay are very grateful for the donation from Hawke’s Bay Childrens Holding Trust which we received in August 2020.
At our meeting in May 2020 we discussed ways to support children and young people in the Hawkes Bay while in the midst of the Covid 19 pandemic. After a lot of brainstorming we decided one easy way was to offer the youth leadership group in each public high school a one-off grant of $2000 to use in a way that they believed would support the young people at their school.
Birthright Hawkes Bay Child and Family care trust’s mission is to provide coordinated services for the support and protection of children, young people and their families in Hawke’s Bay through strength-based services that change lives.