March 2021
BAY OF PLENTY
HEALTHY HOMES INITIATIVE Extending our service!
Kia ora koutou katoa I hope you are all doing well as we are getting right into 2021! We are well underway visiting homes all over the region again and we have received a steady flow of referrals to visit whānau over the summer period. Many referrers have wisely been asking us to visit homes of hapū māmā in their care, to help prepare their homes to be warm and healthy for when their pēpi arrive. With winter coming up fast, this is a good time to refer through so we can get interventions underway before the cold hits.
Our service has recently been widened to include skin infection—welcome on board Kiri Ora Service! Also, the Gas swabbing criteria has changed from requiring three positive Gas swabs to only one, for 0-14 year olds.
A BIG thank you to the Tauranga Curtain Bank Our wonderful Curtain Bank volunteers have made and supplied over 640 fantastically warm, lined curtains for homes all across the BOP since the programme started (and that’s for just Sustainability Options alone!!!). Thank you so much ladies! We truly appreciate you all, and the time you give to helping our whanau have warmer homes — You’re the best!
Farewell to Sandra Innes-Smith
If you come across any whānau who need help creating warmer, drier and healthier homes, please feel encouraged to send us your referrals - we would love to help more whānau in our region.
Sandra has been a huge part of this service since its inception in 2015 and we are so grateful to have had her along with us on this amazing journey and for all her awesome mahi! She will be hugely missed! Best wishes from all of us here at the BOP HH team!
Mauri Ora! Kirsty Robertson Healthy Homes Hub Administrator
Welcome Kim Edwards!
How to refer a family to the Healthy Homes Programme
Kim joined the HH team with Sustainability Options in February 2021. She joins Nik, Duncan and Yvonne as our new Healthy Homes assessor and is currently training and visiting homes with Duncan and Nik. With a background of over 10 years in environmental sustainability education and zero waste education she is a wonderful addition and great fit to our team as a Healthy Homes educator for our whānau.
Please contact us by phone, email or via our Facebook page:
P: 022 497 2529 (call or text) E: bophealthyhomes@so.org.nz https://www.facebook.com/bophealthyhomes/
Kim is a Bay of Plenty local, living in the Western Bay with her hubby and she has 2 young adult sons.
The BOP Healthy Homes Duncan Newington—TCHT Healthy Homes Assessor
Yvonne Rua—TCHT Healthy Homes Assessor
Kim Edwards—S.O Healthy Homes Assessor
Nik Gregg—S.O Healthy Homes Assessor
Kirsty Robertson—S.O S.O coordinator & HH Hub administrator