2010 National Not-For-Profit Sector Conference

11-12 March 2010

Waipuna Hotel and Conference Centre, 58 Waipuna Road, Panmure, Auckland

The Way Forward: Inspiration + Skills - Managing and Governing in the Not-For-Profit Sector

Speakers:

• Hildy Gottlieb
• Margaret Wheatley
• Trevor Taylor
• John Stansfield
• Russell Garret
• Aly McNicoll
• Garth Nowland-Foreman
• Hamish Crooks
• Hon Turiana Turia.

Fees (+ GST):

• $700 – individual registration
• $600 – second and subsequent same organisation registration.

For more information please contact Grow Events, 06 878 3456, events@grow.co.nz or visit the conference website.

HEALTH RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES
Ethics and public health surveillance: what should we be considering?

Tuesday, 16 March 2010
12.30 pm-1.30 pm.

Seminar Room, Level 2
102 Adelaide Road, Wellington

Lisa Lee, PhD, Assistant Science Officer
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
Atlanta, USA

This is an occasional series of health research seminars
organised by the Wellington campus of the Massey University Research School of Public Health

For more information contact the Centre for Public Health Research (04-380-0602)

Employment relations workshop for Māori and iwi based community organisations

He Oranga Poumanu

17 March 2010

GISBORNE
Gisborne Hotel
Cnr Tyndall & Huxley Rds

9:00am – 3:30pm.

These workshops provides the opportunity to add to your kete of skills and knowledge about best employment practice by offering a range of practical and appropriate solutions to take away and implement in your day-to-day
operations.

Topics include:

• Overview of the Employment Relations Act (ERA) 2000
• Governance and Management
• Managing Workplace Conflict
• Performance Management
• Mediation & Worker Representation
• Sector specific issues for Māori

All participants will receive a free copy of Mana Mahi, the new one-stop employment resource for community organisations.

To register FREE, or for more information, please contact:

Ngapera Stewart
He Oranga Pounamu
(03) 353-4370
nstewart@hop.org.nz.

Registration is essential. Numbers are limited to 25 participants.

Please visit our website www.hop.org.nz.

Employment relations workshop for Māori and iwi based community organisations

He Oranga Pounamu

HAMILTON: Thursday 18 March
Community Waikato
33 Victoria Street

9:00am – 3:30pm.

These workshops provides the opportunity to add to your kete of skills and knowledge about best employment practice by offering a range of practical and appropriate solutions to take away and implement in your day-to-day
operations.

Topics include:

• Overview of the Employment Relations Act (ERA) 2000
• Governance and Management
• Managing Workplace Conflict
• Performance Management
• Mediation & Worker Representation
• Sector specific issues for Māori

All participants will receive a free copy of Mana Mahi, the new one-stop employment resource for community organisations.

To register FREE, or for more information, please contact:

Ngapera Stewart
He Oranga Pounamu
(03) 353-4370
nstewart@hop.org.nz.

Registration is essential. Numbers are limited to 25 participants.

Please visit our website www.hop.org.nz.

Free Training for Healthcare Workers – one day workshop

Smoking cessation training

19 March 2010

National Heart Foundation Pacific Heartbeat

9.00am – 4.00pm

Keneperu Hospital, New Education Centre, Rahia Street, Porirua

The training is based on the Revised New Zealand Smoking Cessation Guidelines 2007.

Topics include:

• the Pacific Community and Tobacco Smoking
• ABC
• understanding and working effectively with smokers;
• effective communication in the context of Pacific diverse cultures;
• challenges of developing tobacco control and cessation strategies for Pacific people;
• subsidised Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT).

For more information and to access the training application form please visit the NHF Pacific Heartbeat website.

You can also contact Anthony Leaupepe, 04 472 2780 x 2, or anthonyl@nhf.org.nz.

Symposium 2010 – Health Surveillance: Information for Action in the 21st Century

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Wellington

19 March 2010, 9:00am-5:10pm

Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University

The symposium will focus on the role and practice of the public health surveillance, of both animal and human populations, in providing information for the development of policy and decision making.

Keynote speakers:

• Dr Lisa Lee, Assistant Science Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Atlanta, USA/li>
• Emeritus Professor Roger Morris, Previously Gilruth Professor of Animal Health Co-Director EpiCentre, Massey University.

There will also be many other speakers. Find out more and register at the Massey University website.

Participants should register in advance, and will be asked to pay a small registration fee to cover organisational costs and lunch.

Registration fees: $100.

Participants Limited to 120.

Conference 2010  Alcohol Causes Violence

23 March 2010

Alcohol Action NZ, Wellington School of Medicine, University of Otago

8.30am – 5.00pm

Te Papa Tongarewa, Cable Street, Wellington

The Law Commission is soon to deliver its final report on what to do about the state of alcohol in New Zealand. A review like this is not likely to occur for another ten or twenty years, which makes this an important and historic year. This conference is being timed to highlight this review and its anticipated recommendations and focuses on one of the most important aspects of alcohol damage – violence.

Fees: optional

Places limited to the first 200 registrants

To register and to access the conference programme please visit the Alcohol Action NZ website.

Free Training for Healthcare Workers – one day workshop

Smoking cessation training

23 March 2010

National Heart Foundation Pacific Heartbeat

9.00am – 4.00pm

Christchurch Hospital Professional Development Unit,
Riccarton Avenue, Christchurch

The training is based on the Revised New Zealand Smoking Cessation Guidelines 2007.

Topics include:

• the Pacific Community and Tobacco Smoking
• ABC
• understanding and working effectively with smokers;
• effective communication in the context of Pacific diverse cultures;
• challenges of developing tobacco control and cessation strategies for Pacific people;
• subsidised Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT).

For more information and to access the training application form please visit the NHF Pacific Heartbeat website.

You can also contact Anthony Leaupepe, 04 472 2780 x 2, or anthonyl@nhf.org.nz

Towards Equitable Futures: Integrating History, Theory and Practice

24 March 2010

Centre for Public Health Research Massey University, Social Policy Evaluation and Research Committee (SPEAR)

This forum will focus on understanding and tackling health and social inequities, and is intended to provoke dialogue and debate on best practice for investigating and addressing complex social issues.

Keynote speakers:

• Professor Mason Durie
• Professor David Byrne
• Professor Nancy Krieger.

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Cable Street, Wellington

Registration 8.00am-8.45am
Forum 8.45am-3.00pm

Fees: $100 (covers organisational costs/lunch).

For more information and to register please contact Hilary Nuttall h.g.nuttall@massey.ac.nz.

Abstract writing workshop

Facilitated by Dr Polly Atatoa-Carr

24 March 2010, 10am-12.30pm

Salvation Army Rooms
94 London Street, Hamilton

The 2010 PHA conference is being held at Turangawaewae 22 – 24 September. The theme for this year’s conference is "tomorrow for tomorrow’s people".
Conference Sub-themes/conference streams:

• health and environment: for projects or work in social and physical environments that link to wellbeing
• sustainable development: for projects or activities that involve community development OR those that look to a sustainable future
• making the connection: focusing on linking health to other sectors OR working in collaborative partnerships.

The Waikato PHA branch would like to encourage Waikato providers to showcase their projects/programmes /work at this year’s conference. This is a time for the Waikato to shine.

Abstracts for the conference are open now. To help with developing abstracts for the conference, the Waikato PHA branch are holding this FREE workshop.

So bring some ideas from your workplace and/or community and get your abstract written on the day.

RSVP as places are limited: by 14th March to Claire Simcock
Email: simcockc@waikatodhb.govt.nz or phone 07 838 2569.

Click here or more information about the conference.

Smoking Cessation – Five Day Block Course

24-28 March 2010

School of Public Health and Psychosocial Studies, AUT University

AUT University, Akoranga Campus, Northcote, Auckland.

Lecturer: Dr Hayden McRobbie

This course identifies the factors that contribute to tobacco dependence and develops intervention skills which will assist people to stop smoking.
For information about course times and fees please contact the Course Information Centre 0800 288 864 or courseinfo@aut.ac.nz.

You can also contact the programme coordinator Helen Warren 09 921 9679 or helen.warren@aut.ac.nz.

Free Lunchtime Seminar: Fat Taxes or Skinny Subsidies?
Asymmetric Paternalism as a framework for evaluating policy choice

25 March 2010

Wellington Health Economics Group, Health Services Research Association of Australia and NZ

RWW 501, Level 5, West Wing, entrance through Railway Station, Lift 3 Level 5, Pipitea Campus, Victoria University, Wellington

Presenter: Judith Pinny, Massey University

Judith’s presentation will include a brief overview of her current PhD research and a more detailed discussion of her theoretical framework of Asymmetric Paternalism.

Feel free to bring your lunch and colleagues, RSVPs are not required and there is no charge.

For more information please contact Maggy Hope, 04 463 6565,
maggy.hope@vuw.ac.nz.

Free Training for Healthcare Workers – one day workshop

Smoking cessation training

26 March 2010

National Heart Foundation Pacific Heartbeat

9.00am – 4.00pm

Christchurch Hospital Professional Development Unit,
Riccarton Avenue, Christchurch

The training is based on the Revised New Zealand Smoking Cessation Guidelines 2007.

Topics include:

• the Pacific Community and Tobacco Smoking
• ABC
• understanding and working effectively with smokers;
• effective communication in the context of Pacific diverse cultures;
• challenges of developing tobacco control and cessation strategies for Pacific people;
• subsidised Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT).

For more information and to access the training application form please visit the NHF Pacific Heartbeat website.

You can also contact Anthony Leaupepe, 04 472 2780 x 2, or anthonyl@nhf.org.nz.

Workshop: Working for Effective Employment Relations

30 March 2010

Volunteering NZ
Rotorua

These one-day workshops are designed for board/committee members and managers of community organisations.

Topics include:

• principles of the Employment Relations Act
• managing workplace conflict and performance issues
• governance and management in employment situations
• mediation, remuneration, unions and workforce development.

Fees: $25 to $35 per participant

For more information please contact Debs Tangohau, Rotorua Social Services Council, 07 349 4440, rossco@callplus.net.nz.

Local Renewable Energy Policies and Actions: Global Survey and Prospects for New Zealand

New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities

Tuesday, 30 March, 1.00-3.00pm
Small Lecture Theatre, Wellington School of Medicine, 23A Mien St, Newtown, Wellington

Dr. Eric Martinot is the lead author of the widely-used REN21 Renewables Global Status Report and a prominent international expert on renewable energy. He is senior research director at the Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies in Tokyo, teaching and research associate of Tsinghua University in Beijing, and teaching and research fellow at Victoria University of Wellington.

City and local governments can play a key role in encouraging renewable energy at the local level. The multiple roles of these local governments–as decision-makers, planning authorities, managers of municipal infrastructure, and role models for citizens and businesses–are crucial to the global transition to renewable energy now underway.

2010 Third Annual Pacific Preparedness Conference: Capacity Building to Address Vulnerable Populations in Natural Disasters

31 March 2010

Pacific Emergency Management, Preparedness, and Response Information Network and Training Services (Pacific EMPRINTS), National Disaster Life Support (NDLS)-Pacific Regional Center, Hawaii State Civil Defense

Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii
2454 South Beretania St, 5F Honolulu, Hawaii

At-risk populations that face social, political and/or economic vulnerabilities include the poor and/or homeless, the elderly, people with mobility or other physical impairments, children, those who have mental health problems, people with special medical needs, single parents, and those with language barriers.

This conference attempts to identify some of the key considerations in addressing at-risk populations and offers skills-building sessions that can help improve preparedness and response within our communities.

Fees USD: Early bird to 8 March

• $100 – Full Registration
• $60 – Student Registration

For more information and to register your interest please visit the Pacific Emprints website.

Health Promotion Forum
Topic: Pacific models and health promotion

Christchurch Park Event and Functions Centre, 250 Westminster Street

9.30am - 2.30pm

The relevance of Pacific health models to health promotion will be examined.

Presenters:

Fuimaono Karl Pulotu-Endemann is a Pacific health consultant, with many years of professional experience in public health and mental health. He has led the development of Fonofale, a Pacific health model.

Sione Tu’itahi is the Workforce Development and Communications Manager, Health Promotion Forum of New Zealand. Sione will present on Fonua, a Pasifika health promotion model he has developed and will further interrogate in his current doctoral research.

Ieti Lima is Senior Health Promotion Strategist – Pacific at the Health Promotion Forum. He is currently a Senior Researcher on a multi-government agency research project led by the Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs. Ieti will present an overview of the need for, and relevance of Pacific health models.

HPF members: $60.75.
Non-members: $67.50

Please email sal@hauora.co.nz to book your place and for catering purposes. There are only a limited number of places available so early registration is recommended!

Taranaki Nutrition and Physical Activity Forum

Agencies for Nutrition Action, Ministry of Health

14 April 2010, 9.00am-4.00pm

Quality Hotel Plymouth International, New Plymouth

A free forum designed for those with a work focus or interest in building healthy communities. This includes but is not limited to public health practitioners,
Māori and Pacific health providers, local government, education providers, regional sports trusts, non government and primary health organisations.

This forum is free of charge but spaces are limited. Please register your interest by 7 April to Julia Lyon, julia@ana.org.nz.

To access the draft programme and registration form and additional regional forums, please visit the ANA website.

Where to from here for Māori tobacco advocacy?

14 and 15 April 2010

Timatanga – Wednesday 4pm
Whakamututanga – Thursday 4pm

Wainuiomata Marae
Wellington

1997 in Wainuiomata saw the coming together of the Auahi Kore community and other key stakeholders to discuss the establishment of a Māori tobacco control advocacy organisation. The hui led to the establishment of Apaarangi Tautoko Auahi Kore (now Te Reo Mārama).

2010 in Wainuiomata will provide a platform to revisit the primary purpose and objectives of Māori tobacco advocacy and its major achievements up until the present time. The key questions will be “Is there still a need or a future for Māori Tobacco Advocacy? Why and what would it look like?”

We invite you to share with us your whakaaro on the next phase. Please register your interest in attending the hui immediately by emailing hui organiser and facilitator, Kiri Parata on kiri.parata@xtra.co.nz

Airport transfers, kai and marae accommodation available at no cost.

Evolving Communities Beyond Services: Building Bridges National Community Mental Health and Addictions Conference 2010

14-16 April 2010

Building Bridges Trust

Conference themes:

• Self: Understanding Me
• Services: Analysing our Successes
• Partnerships: Creating new Possibilities
• Beyond: Developing the Pathway

Keynote speakers:

• Lana Frado, Sound Times Support Services, Canada
• Jacqui Dillon, Chair, Hearing Voices Network, UK.

Wellington Convention Centre

Fees:

Registration opens 10 June 09

Early bird to 30 June 09

• $500 + GST

Regular – from 1 November 09

• $550 + GST

Please visit the Building Bridges conference website for specific registration concessions and fees structure.

For sponsored registration opportunities please contact Amy Fitzgerald, 04 976 6496, amy@flowevents.co.nz.

Public Lecture: Global change: a major challenge to health. What can we do?

22 April 2010

Australia New Zealand Obesity Society – NZ Group, Diabetes NZ Waikato

5.30pm – 7.00pm

Kingsgate Hotel, 100 Garnet Avenue, Forest Lake, Hamilton

Speaker: Professor Philip James is past chairman of the International Obesity Task Force. And has worked closely with WHO and the Commonwealth Secretariat to develop strategies for the prevention and management of obesity and its associated diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and cancers.

For more information please contact Elaine Rush, 09 921 9999 x8091, 021 624 077, elaine.rush@aut.ac.nz.

Public Lecture: Global change: a major challenge to health. What can we do?

23 April 2010

Australia New Zealand Obesity Society – NZ Group, Diabetes NZ Waikato

5.30pm – 7.00pm

AUT University Akoranga Campus, North Shore Lecture theatre AF116.

Speaker: Professor Philip James is past chairman of the International Obesity Task Force. And has worked closely with WHO and the Commonwealth Secretariat to develop strategies for the prevention and management of obesity and its associated diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and cancers.

For more information please contact Elaine Rush, 09 921 9999 x8091, 021 624 077, elaine.rush@aut.ac.nz.

Child Car Restraint Conference 2010

22-23 April 2010

Royal New Zealand Plunket Society
Auckland

If you attended the very successful inaugural child car restraint conference hosted by Plunket in 2006 we want to see you in 2010 to celebrate your work, learn from each other and discuss and check out the latest in the field of child car restraints.

For more information please contact Sue Campbell, 03 471 9286 or sue.campbell@plunket.org.nz.

Visit the Plunket website for registration and speaker details.

Foundation Certificate in Injury Prevention – Te Aho Tapu

4-6 May 2010

Injury Prevention Network of Aotearoa New Zealand (IPNANZ)

The Foundation Certificate comprises six units (unit standards) from the National Qualifications Framework registered by NZQA.

Past participants have included community health workers, health promoters, injury prevention consultants and road safety co-ordinators.

Auckland venue to be confirmed.

Fees: $400 plus GST.

Contact Bev Jarvis to register your interest b.jarvis@ipnanz.org.nz. The enrolment form is also available on the IPNANZ website as a PDF.

Working together conference 2010 – Time for action
ALAC

6-7 May 2010

Telstra Clear Pacific Events Centre
Manukau City
Auckland

If you work in alcohol-related sectors or you have an interest in reducing alcohol-related harm, this is a must attend event.

The theme of 2010 ALAC conference is “Time for Action”. The focus will be on working together to create real and sustainable change in the way New Zealanders think about and use alcohol.

Over 3000 submissions were received on the discussion paper “Alcohol in our Lives”. This reflects the high level of interest and support New Zealand communities have in addressing issues around the misuse of alcohol and the resulting harm.

Come and be part of the action.

$350 + GST

Includes: morning and afternoon teas, lunches and a conference dinner. *Travel and accommodation not included.

Visit www.alacconference2010.co.nz for conference updates.

Registrations and the call for abstracts will open soon

Fourth New Zealand Paediatric Trauma Conference

Māori and Pacific Island Trauma

7 May 2010

Starship Children’s Hospital
Clinical Education Centre, Auckland City Hospital (ACH), Level 5, Park Road, Grafton, Auckland

8.45am-4.30pm

Kids Trauma Conference 2010 is a multidisciplinary scientific and educational meeting for Therapists, Nurses, Doctors, Researchers, ACC case managers and all workers in the fields of injury treatment, rehabilitation, research and prevention.

Guest Speakers:

• Patrick Kelly
• Hinemoa Elder
• Andrew Law
• Kathryn Edward
• Eewei Lim
• Teuila Percival.

Call for Abstracts - now open on any topic related to paediatric trauma. Abstract submission closes on 31 March.

Please contact Jillian Fleming
Department of Paediatric Surgery, 09 307 4949 ext 6381, jillf@adhb.govt.nz to submit an abstract.

For further information please visit the Auckland DHB website.

Workshop: Working for Effective Employment Relations

11 March 2010

Volunteering NZ
Paraparaumu

These one-day workshops are designed for board/committee members and managers of community organisations.

Topics include:

• principles of the Employment Relations Act
• managing workplace conflict and performance issues
• governance and management in employment situations
• mediation, remuneration, unions and workforce development.

Fees: $25 to $35 per participant

For more information please contact Pat Cumming, Kapiti Community Centre, 04 902 3240, KapCom@clear.net.nz. 

4th New Zealand Conference on Walking and Liveable Communities

Dollars and Sense of Walking; creating liveable communities

2-3 August 2010
Living Streets Aotearoa

Walking is part of the solution to many of the issues facing NZ today. Communities which are walking-friendly and liveable attract people, businesses and tourists, resulting in higher property values, revitalised local businesses, lower health costs and safer, more pleasant neighbourhoods. The iconic cities in the world are walkable communities.

Keynote Presenter: Martin Wedderburn, Principal Transport Planner, Buchanan Consultancy.

James Cook Hotel Grand Chancellor, The Terrace, Wellington

Fees (GST incl):

• $506.25 – Earlybird to 18 June 2010
• $225.00 – Advocates (contact Living Streets for application).

This is a reminder that abstracts must be submitted by 26 February. We have had a great response so far, so don't miss out. In addition to topics that complement the Conference theme, abstracts would also be welcome on related topics such as smart growth, measuring walkabilty, changing travel behaviour, walking by design, local initiatives for growing the walking habit.

Please visit the Living Streets Aotearoa website for more information.

Tobacco Control Two Day Course: POPLHLTH 753 Special Topic
(15 Points)

12-13 August 2010

School of Population Health, The University of Auckland

University of Auckland, Tamaki Campus, cnr Morrin Road & Merton Road , Glen Innes, Auckland

Course goals:

• to provide an overview of the tobacco control sector
• to promote a critical appreciation of major theoretical debates in the field
• to provide an introduction to nicotine dependency research
• to foster graduate student interest, knowledge and possible ongoing commitment to research and practice in tobacco control.

For more information about course times and fees please visit the University of Auckland website.

For further information please contact Dr Marewa Glover 09 373 7599 x 86044 or m.glover@auckland.ac.nz.

Foundation Certificate in Injury Prevention – Te Aho Tapu

24-26 August 2010

Injury Prevention Network of Aotearoa New Zealand (IPNANZ)

The Foundation Certificate comprises six units (unit standards) from the National Qualifications Framework registered by NZQA.

Past participants have included community health workers, health promoters, injury prevention consultants and road safety co-ordinators.

Auckland venue to be confirmed.

Fees: $400 plus GST.

Contact Bev Jarvis to register your interest b.jarvis@ipnanz.org.nz. The enrolment form is also available on the IPNANZ website as a PDF.

2nd Rural & Remote Mental Health Symposium:
Winds of Change: New Perspectives on Rural and Remote Mental Health

29 – 30 September 2010

Australian and NZ Mental Health Association

Rydges Lakeside Canberra

Keynote Speakers:

• Prof Vaughan Carr, Director, Centre for Brain & Mental Health Research, University of Newcastle
• Mr David Crosbie, CEO, Mental Health Council of Australia
• Prof Mark Creamer, Director - Australian Posttraumatic Mental Health, University of Melbourne.

Fees: Early bird to 10 August 2010

• $650 – Full Registration
• $500 – Student/Carer/Unwaged
• $400 – Day Registration.

Call for Abstracts:

• open 25 January;
• close 30 June.

Workshops: 28 September.

For more information please visit the ANZMH conference website.

Tobacco Control Two Day Course: POPLHLTH 753 Special Topic
(15 Points)

30 September-1 October 2010

School of Population Health, The University of Auckland

University of Auckland, Tamaki Campus, cnr Morrin Road & Merton Road , Glen Innes, Auckland

Course goals:

• to provide an overview of the tobacco control sector
• to promote a critical appreciation of major theoretical debates in the field
• to provide an introduction to nicotine dependency research
• to foster graduate student interest, knowledge and possible ongoing commitment to research and practice in tobacco control.

For more information about course times and fees please visit the University of Auckland website.

For further information please contact Dr Marewa Glover 09 373 7599 x 86044 or m.glover@auckland.ac.nz.

2010 Conference: Breastfeeding – Weaving Lifelong Connections

Te Whangai U – E whatui pumau ana i te muka tangata

8-10 October 2010
La Leche League New Zealand

The conference is open to everyone with an interest in breastfeeding and in supporting breastfeeding mothers.

Keynote Speakers:

• Pinky McKay
• Alison Barrett.

Brentwood Hotel, 16 Kemp St, Kilbirnie, Wellington

Fees: $320 (approx)

For more information please contact Carolyn Driver-Burgess 07 868 5311, carolllyndb@hotmail.com or visit the La Leche League website.