The Tongan Youth Trust are pleased to announce a very successful evening at the Tongan Youth Excellence Awards on Friday 16th March; with a full house of 300 guests, nominees and families present. We give special acknowledgement to Le Va for their generous sponsorship...
E lelei le Atua, i taimi uma (God is good, All the time). Tell us a little bit about yourself I was born in Samoa (my claim to fame) and raised in West Auckland. I am the eldest of four with amazing Samoan parents from a mixed Irish, German, Tokelauan & Tuvaluan...
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it’s not.” The Lorax, by Dr Seuss. There’s a lot of banter out there at the moment about the governments’ new mental health inquiry, and the impact it will have on improving mental...
With the festive season just around the corner, the FLO team at Le Va are busy revamping the content and resources in the FLO Talanoa suicide prevention education programme in preparation for the new year with a refreshed focus! FLO Talanoa is an information workshop...
As part of the 5th International Conference of Te Ao Māramatanga (New Zealand College of Mental Health Nurses), Le Va supported ‘Surfing the Waves’ with a post conference half day workshop that focussed on engaging Pasifika families and communities in mental health...
Research into New Zealand’s mental health and addictions populations demonstrate that although Pasifika people have high rates of mental illness, Pasifika people have low access rates to services – and when they do access, it tends to be in a crisis situation or...
