September 10 is World Suicide Prevention Day (WSPD). This year the theme is ‘Preventing Suicide: Reaching Out and Saving lives’. WSPD is an initiative of the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) and the World Health Organisation (WHO). This year’s...
Preserving our youth and our future is highly reliant upon reaching back into our past.” (Twyla Baker-Demaray) Every 40 seconds, a person somewhere in the world will take their own life. While the prevention of suicide is a global imperative, a diversity of...
Almost all FLO Pasifika Community Fund initiatives are now completed, and we’ve busy recently connecting in with those that are nearly finished. One is the Hair 4 Life programme, run by Che Kerr and the Youth TEAM Trust. This month, Che presented at the Cut Above...
Off the Couch Trust, based in Manakau, received funding through Le Va’s Pasifika Suicide Prevention Community Fund for its initiative Sau Loto. For the Trust’s CE Buck Stowers, the initiative means people can be ‘free’ from suicide by incorporating exercise,...
We continue our profile of our FLO ambassadors network this month by highlighting three of our members: Poko Ngaro, Alisi Tatafu and Epi Elisara. The national FLO suicide prevention ambassadors network champions Pasifika suicide prevention, through national...
In July, the Le Va team joined about eight other presenters for a one-day Perinatal Mental Health workshop at the University of Auckland, East Tamaki Campus. The workshop, organised by the Perinatal Mental Health New Zealand Trust and TAHA Well Pacific Mother and...
