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How do you shift a system, sector, services and staff to work differently?  This is the challenge that the ‘Supporting Parents, Healthy Children’ initiative faces. 

“If you have the ability to share, you have the ability to save.” This is something I constantly remind myself when delivering the two-day FLO Talanoa Facilitator training.

The Smoke & Mirrors Project is the brainchild of award winning playwright and youth development worker Charlizza Harris who has brought together elements of business, social enterprise, performing arts, youth development and leadership to create this social change movement. 

Le Va delivered three disability focused Engaging Pasifika cultural competency programmes last month which were attended by nearly 60 members of the New Zealand Disability Support Network.

Le Va is supporting the Ministry of Health’s consultation process on the New Zealand Suicide Prevention Strategy. Read on to find out more about the Pasifika focused workshops, where they are being held and how you can come along and get involved.

As a person with a performing arts background that started in the community, the notion of being able to give back to that same community was a want that had grown over the years to a need. With the loss of my step-daughter to suicide in 2012, performing arts became a pathway to healing.