South Canterbury Volunteer Support Day

We invite you to attend our

South Canterbury
Volunteer Support Day

Held on: 11 October 2006
12.30 pm light lunch
1 pm meeting commences

Venue: St Peter’s Church
Dyson St
Temuka

Guest Speaker: Liz Nolan, Manager of IHC South Canterbury
“The changing face of IHC / IDEA Services”




R.S.V.P. by 06.10.06 to C.H.S.T.:

Phone: 03-366 5104
Fax: 03-366 5931
Email: chst@clear.net.nz

North Canterbury Volunteer Support Day

We invite you to attend our

North Canterbury Volunteer Support Day

Held on: 29 June 2006

1pm meeting commences

followed by afternoon tea

Venue: Union Church
Cnr Main St and Brunt Hill Rd
Oxford

Guest Speaker: Kylee Tindall
IDEA North Canterbury (formerly IHC)

R.S.V.P. by 26.06.06 to C.H.S.T.:
Phone: 366 5104
Fax: 366 5931
Email: chst@clear.net.nz

Next Meetings:
South Canterbury: October
Christchurch: December

First Support Group Meeting

We invite you to attend the first meeting of our

Volunteer Support Group

Thursday, 1 June 06
5.30 - 6.30pm

Community House, Committee Room
(next to our office)
141 Hereford St, Christchurch

Over a cup of tea, we will get to know each other, share experiences, success stories and concerns. We will build connections and networks between our volunteers and help each other with ideas, advice and knowledge in our role as Volunteer Friends.


Every Volunteer Friend is welcome

Training Opportunities

Introduction to Mental Health
- a Community Perspective
MHERC Training 2006 (Series 1)

Wednesday 12 April *(on 4th Floor)
Schizophrenia
Presented by Supporting Families – Pegasus Bay

Wednesday 26 April *(on 4th Floor)
Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder
Presented by Suzan Munro (Consumer)

Wednesday 3 May
Food and Body Image Issues
Presented by Eating Awareness Team

Wednesday 10 May
Understanding Bipolar Disorder
Presented by Bipolar Support Canterbury

Wednesday 24 May
Anxiety Disorders
Presented by Agoraphobic Support Group, Social Phobia and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Support Groups

Wednesday 31 May
Depression Awareness
Presented by Depression Support Network

Time 9.00am - Noon
Venue Mental Health Education
& Resource Centre,
2nd Floor, 221 Gloucester Street
Christchurch
Cost $10.00 per session (includes morning tea)

You can enrol in one or more sessions.
Please register and pay early to secure your place
(See attached Registration Form)
Phone: 365-5344 or Email: mherc@xtra.co.nz

Annual General Meeting

We invite you to attend our

Annual General Meeting

16 March 2006
12 pm light lunch
1 pm meeting commences

St Martin’s Church
50 Lincoln Rd
Christchurch

Guest Speaker: Hon. Ruth Dyson, Minister for Disabilities

R.S.V.P. by 10.03.06 to C.H.S.T.:

Phone: 366 5104
Fax: 366 5931
Email: chst@clear.net.nz

Survey of impact of rising petrol prizes on volunteering

Dear volunteers,

we received the e-mail below from Volunteering Canterbury promoting a survey done by Volunteering NZ.

"Dear Friend,

Volunteering New Zealand is undertaking a survey to assess the impact of
rising petrol prices on volunteering. The Government Office for the Community
and Voluntary Sector has indicated they see the results as being important in
their supportive work for volunteering.

There are two separate surveys, one for your organisation, and one to be
completed by volunteers. Each should take around three minutes to complete.
Copies of the survey can be downloaded from http://www.volunteeringnz.org.nz/ or
we can e-mail to you on request vc@volcan.org.nz (they are pdf files). If you
are able to help with this survey it would be appreciated.

Warm regards and Happy New Year
from the team at Volunteering Canterbury"

Maybe you have the three minutes to fill out the form. You can send it back to Volunteering Canterbury:

Volunteering Canterbury
141 Hereford St
Christchurch

or directly to Volunteering NZ:

Volunteering NZ
PO Box 24 526
Wellington
Fax 04- 384 3637

Your input will help to promote volunteering and who knows, maybe we can unlock some resources??? :-)

Thank you,
Jessica

Happy New Year!!!

We wish all of you a very Happy New Year:

our valuable volunteers who give hours and hours to keep in contact with their friends,

the service providers who we cooperate with to ensure we can deliver the best service possible,

the board members who work hard to keep the organisational side of things going,

and certainly our service users who hopefully benefit from our friendship service.

All the best and we are looking forward to work with you again in 2006!!!

Kind regards,

Jessica

Volunteer Support Day in Christchurch

Held on:

5 December 2005
12 pm light lunch
1 pm meeting commences

Venue:
St Martin’s Church
50 Lincoln Rd
Christchurch

Guest Speaker:
Vicky Cooper
“ComCare - assisting people in
mental illness”


R.S.V.P. by 28.11.05 to C.H.S.T.

Phone: 366 5104
Fax: 366 5931
Email: chst@clear.net.nz


Next Meetings:

AGM: March
North Canterbury: June
South Canterbury: October

Volunteer Survey

We have a great response to the latest survey of our volunteers. The answers keep pouring in every day in an unexpected high number.
A big thank you to everybody who sent their survey back, we will start analysing the results in the next couple of days.

Jessica

Special Olympics - National NZ Asia Pacific Games in Christchurch

Special Olympics is a year round programme of sports training and competition for young people and adults with an Intellectual disability. Athletes can be as young as five and there is no upper age limit.

The New Zealand Special Olympics Foundation is a registered charitable Trust (1985) with thousands of volunteers and over three thousand athletes involved throughout the country. New Zealand Special Olympics is accredited to Special Olympics Inc. Special Olympics Inc. have their headquarters in Washington D.C., USA and is the official world governing body for Special Olympics programmes in over 150 countries.

The Special Olympics World Games is the flagship event of the Special Olympics movement. World Summer and Winter games are held every four years. The last Special Olympics World Summer Games was held in Dublin, Ireland in 2003. This was the first time this major event was held outside of the United States, and the New Zealand team did exceptionally well, winning 19 gold, 21 silver and 20 bronze medals, and achieving 46 personal bests.

Last year Special Olympics NZ celebrated their 20th anniversary. We think their work is amazing and would like to encourage our volunteers to take an interest in this organisation and maybe even volunteer for the Nationals Games in December!?! If volunteering is not an option for you, the organisation is looking for sponsors of athletes as well. Sponsorship is $250 per Athlete.

NZ National & Asia Pacific Invitation Games 2005

The 2005 Special Olympics New Zealand National & Asia Pacific Invitation Games are being held in Christchurch from Wednesday 30th November to Sunday 4th December 2005.
Volunteers are the heart of any Special Olympics event, and a large number of volunteers are needed for a wide variety of roles to ensure this is a quality sports event. Volunteers will receive training, morning and afternoon tea, lunch (for those staying all day), tickets to the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, a uniform T shirt and hat and a Volunteer Thank You party on Sunday 4 December. We value your contribution and hope you will feel rewarded through your participation in the Games and these small tokens of our gratitude.

What kind of volunteer assistance is needed?

* Drivers: to transport athletes, team managers, VIP's and special guests between venues

* Laborers - to set up or packing down venues e.g. erecting tents, tables, signs, moving sports equipment

* Assistants - the organisation of the awards (medals and ribbons) at sports venues and awards ceremonies, man desks and display results and information at venues

* Marshals - to collect and escort athletes to their activities or man an activity point, parking, catering, drink stations, lunch allocations, taking photos, video records, first aid and many more jobs too numerous to list

* Data Entry - to enter and process sports results into computer

* Administrators - general admin skills to assist with photocopying and collating sports draws, results

* Sign/banner makers

* Translators - speakers of Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Bahasa Indonesi, Bahasa Malayi

* General Hands - to help with working bees before the Games to assemble medal packs, information packs, welcome bags, etc, runners/gophers

* Liaisons - to man information desks and help desks at accommodation venues and act as a liaison in the mornings, evenings and overnight in case of an emergency

* Sports tasks - timekeepers, scorers, measurers, results collectors, referees, judges

For a volunteer or sponsorship forms, please visit the website

www.specialolympics.org.nz

or contact Volunteering Canterbury ph 0800 - 865 268

If you want to hear more about Special Olympics, please note that we will have a guest speaker from the organisation at our Volunteer Support Day in South Canterbury. Should you have problems with transport from Christchurch, please contact us. We might be able to organize a car pool.

Information taken from the website of Special Olympics

Volunteer Support Day South Canterbury

Held on:

12 October 2005
12 pm light lunch
12.30pm meeting commences

Venue:

St Luke's Church
David St
Hinds

Guest speaker:

Jan Meldrum "Special Olympics - sports for intellectual disabled"


R.S.V.P. by 5 October 2005 to

Volunteer Friendship Link
CHST
141 Hereford St
Christchurch
Phone 366 51 04
Fax 366 59 31
e-mail chst@clear.net.nz

Internet Presence

Hello everyone,

we have the fantastic opportunity to use this site as our news site!!!
We will publish everything of interest here, hopefully some training opportunities and invitations for Volunteer Support Days. And certainly everything that goes on in the mental health and intellectual disabled sector. I hope you will make a lot of use of it and I am looking forward to hear and read your comments!!!

Cheers,
Jessica