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- All Right? Newsletter: All Right? on a search for Canterbury's hidden strengths
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- A PDF copy of a newsletter sent by All Right? to their mailing list in May 2016.
- Date
- 12:00pm 31st May 2016
- Tags
- All Right?, mental health, wellbeing, newsletter, Health and Wellbeing
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- All Right? Newsletter: Live Brighter Canterbury - May 2016
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- A PDF copy of a newsletter sent by All Right? to their mailing list in May 2016.
- Date
- 12:00pm 2nd May 2016
- Tags
- All Right?, mental health, wellbeing, newsletter, Health and Wellbeing
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- Ministry of Health Report April 2016
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- A PDF copy of a report prepared by All Right? to the Ministry of Health in April 2016. The report includes updates on past, current and upcoming projects and campaigns.
- Date
- 12:00pm 6th April 2016
- Tags
- mental health, wellbeing, All Right?, Ministry of Health, report, Health and Wellbeing
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- All Right? CALD: Smile Couch Image 4
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- A photograph from the All Right? Start With a Smile campaign. Start With A Smile was led by Canterbury Employers' Chamber of Commerce and supported by All Right?. The project encouraged Cantabrians to engage with the thousands of migrants who have moved to Canterbury since the earthquakes.
- Date
- 1:07pm 5th April 2016
- Tags
- mental health, wellbeing, All Right?, Smile couch, Start with a Smile, migrant, refugee, culture, culturally and linguistically diverse, Health and Wellbeing
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- All Right? CALD: Smile Couch Image 1
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- A photograph from the All Right? Start with A Smile campaign. Start with A Smile was led by Canterbury Employers' Chamber of Commerce and supported by All Right?. The project encouraged Cantabrians to engage with the thousands of migrants who have moved to Canterbury since the earthquakes.
- Date
- 1:07pm 5th April 2016
- Tags
- mental health, wellbeing, All Right?, Smile couch, Start with a Smile, migrant, refugee, culture, culturally and linguistically diverse, Health and Wellbeing
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- All Right? CALD: Smile Couch Image 2
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- A photograph from the All Right? Start with A Smile campaign. Start with A Smile was led by Canterbury Employers' Chamber of Commerce and supported by All Right?. The project encouraged Cantabrians to engage with the thousands of migrants who have moved to Canterbury since the earthquakes.
- Date
- 1:07pm 5th April 2016
- Tags
- mental health, wellbeing, All Right?, Smile couch, Start with a Smile, migrant, refugee, culture, culturally and linguistically diverse, Health and Wellbeing
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- All Right? CALD: Smile Couch Image 3
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- A photograph from the All Right? Start with A Smile campaign. Start with A Smile was led by Canterbury Employers' Chamber of Commerce and supported by All Right?. The project encouraged Cantabrians to engage with the thousands of migrants who have moved to Canterbury since the earthquakes.
- Date
- 1:07pm 5th April 2016
- Tags
- mental health, wellbeing, All Right?, Smile couch, Start with a Smile, migrant, refugee, culture, culturally and linguistically diverse, Health and Wellbeing
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- All Right? Newsletter: Live Brighter Canterbury ...the latest gems from All Right?
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- A PDF copy of a newsletter sent by All Right? to their mailing list in March 2016.
- Date
- 1:00pm 24th March 2016
- Tags
- All Right?, mental health, wellbeing, newsletter, Health and Wellbeing
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- People in Disasters Conference - International Thoughts
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A video of a keynote presentation by Sir John Holmes during the sixth plenary of the 2016 People in Disasters Conference. The presentation is titled, "International Thoughts".
- Creator(s)
- Sir John Holmes,
- Date
- 3:07am 27th February 2016
- Tags
- People in Disasters, conference, plenary, Sir John Holmes, Health and Wellbeing
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- People in Disasters Conference - Thoughts for Health
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A video of a presentation by Virginia Murray during the sixth plenary of the 2016 People in Disasters Conference. Murray is a Consultant in Global Disaster Risk Reduction at Public Health England. The presentation is titled, "Thoughts for Health".
- Creator(s)
- Virginia Murray,
- Date
- 2:53am 27th February 2016
- Tags
- People in Disasters, conference, plenary, Virginia Murray, Health and Wellbeing
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- People in Disasters Conference - A Qualitative Study of Paramedic Duty to Treat During Disaster Response
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A video of a presentation by Dr Erin Smith during the Community Resilience Stream of the 2016 People in Disasters Conference. The presentation is titled, "A Qualitative Study of Paramedic Duty to Treat During Disaster Response".
The abstract for this presentation reads as follows:
Disasters place unprecedented demands on emergency medical services and test paramedic personal commitment to the health care profession. Despite this challenge, legal guidelines, professional codes of ethics and ambulance service management guidelines are largely silent on the issue of professional obligations during disasters. They provide little to no guidance on what is expected of paramedics or how they ought to approach their duty to treat in the face of risk. This research explores how paramedics view their duty to treat during disasters. Reasons that may limit or override such a duty are examined. Understanding these issues is important in enabling paramedics to make informed and defensible decisions during disasters. The authors employed qualitative methods to gather Australian paramedic perspectives. Participants' views were analysed and organised according to three emerging themes: the scope of individual paramedic obligations, the role and obligations of ambulance services, and the broader ethical context. Our findings suggest that paramedic decisions around duty to treat will largely depend on their individual perception of risk and competing obligations. A reciprocal obligation is expected of paramedic employers. Ambulance services need to provide their employees with the best current information about risks in order to assist paramedics in making defensible decisions in difficult circumstances. Education plays a key role in providing paramedics with an understanding and appreciation of fundamental professional obligations by focusing attention on both the medical and ethical challenges involved with disaster response. Finally, codes of ethics might be useful, but ultimately paramedic decisions around professional obligations will largely depend on their individual risk assessment, perception of risk, and personal value systems.
- Creator(s)
- Erin Smith,
- Date
- 2:09am 27th February 2016
- Tags
- People in Disasters, conference, Dr Erin Smith, disaster, response, paramedic, duty to treat, duty of care, Community Resilience Stream, Health and Wellbeing
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- People in Disasters Conference - A Community Wellbeing Centric Approach to Disaster Resilience
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A video of a presentation by Dr Scott Miles during the Community Resilience Stream of the 2016 People in Disasters Conference. The presentation is titled, "A Community Wellbeing Centric Approach to Disaster Resilience".
The abstract for this presentation reads as follows:
A higher bar for advancing community disaster resilience can be set by conducting research and developing capacity-building initiatives that are based on understanding and monitoring community wellbeing. This presentation jumps off from this view, arguing that wellbeing is the most important concept for improving the disaster resilience of communities. The presentation uses examples from the 2010 and 2011 Canterbury earthquakes to illustrate the need and effectiveness of a wellbeing-centric approach. While wellbeing has been integrated in the Canterbury recovery process, community wellbeing and resilience need to guide research and planning. The presentation unpacks wellbeing in order to synthesize it with other concepts that are relevant to community disaster resilience. Conceptualizing wellbeing as either the opportunity for or achievement of affiliation, autonomy, health, material needs, satisfaction, and security is common and relatively accepted across non-disaster fields. These six variables can be systematically linked to fundamental elements of resilience. The wellbeing variables are subject to potential loss, recovery, and adaptation based on the empirically established ties to community identity, such as sense of place. Variables of community identity are what translate the disruption, damage, restoration, reconstruction, and reconfiguration of a community's different critical services and capital resources to different states of wellbeing across a community that has been impacted by a hazard event. With reference to empirical research and the Canterbury case study, the presentation integrates these insights into a robust framework to facilitate meeting the challenge of raising the standard of community disaster resilience research and capacity building through development of wellbeing-centric approaches.
- Creator(s)
- Scott Miles,
- Date
- 1:47am 27th February 2016
- Tags
- People in Disasters, conference, Dr Scott Miles, disaster, resilience, wellbeing, community, identity, Community Resilience Stream, Health and Wellbeing
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- People in Disasters Conference - Resilience, Poverty, and Seismic Culture
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A video of a presentation by Richard Conlin during the Community Resilience Stream of the 2016 People in Disasters Conference. The presentation is titled, "Resilience, Poverty, and Seismic Culture".
The abstract for this presentation reads as follows:
A strategy of resilience is built around the recognition that effective emergency response requires community involvement and mobilization. It further recognizes that many of the characteristics that equip communities to respond most effectively to short term emergencies are also characteristics that build strong communities over the long term. Building resilient communities means integrating our approaches to poverty, community engagement, economic development, and housing into a coherent strategy that empowers community members to engage with each other and with other communities. In this way, resilience becomes a complementary concept to sustainability. This requires an asset-based change strategy where external agencies meet communities where they are, in their own space, and use collective impact approaches to work in partnership. This also requires understanding and assessing poverty, including physical, financial, and social capital in their myriad manifestations. Poverty is not exclusively a matter of class. It is a complex subject, and different communities manifest multiple versions of poverty, which must be respected and understood through the asset-based lens. Resilience is a quality of a community and a system, and develops over time as a result of careful analysis of strengths and vulnerabilities and taking actions to increase competencies and reduce risk situations. Resilience requires maintenance and must be developed in a way that includes practicing continuous improvement and adaptation. The characteristics of a resilient community include both physical qualities and 'soft infrastructure', such as community knowledge, resourcefulness, and overall health. This presentation reviews the experience of some earlier disasters, outlines a working model of how emergency response, resilience, and poverty interact and can be addressed in concert, and concludes with a summary of what the 2010 Chilean earthquake tells us about how a 'seismic culture' can function effectively in communities even when government suffers from unexpected shortcomings.
- Creator(s)
- Richard Conlin,
- Date
- 1:27am 27th February 2016
- Tags
- People in Disasters, conference, Richard Conlin, resilience, poverty, community, Seattle, Chile, Community Resilience Stream, Health and Wellbeing
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- People in Disasters Conference - Medical Clowning in Disaster Zones
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A video of a presentation by Thomas Petschner during the Resilience and Response Stream of the 2016 People in Disasters Conference. The presentation is titled, "Medical Clowning in Disaster Zones".
The abstract for this presentation reads as follows:
To be in a crisis caused by different kinds of natural disasters (as well as a man made incidents), dealing with ongoing increase of problems and frequent confrontation with very bad news isn't something that many people can easily cope with. This applies obviously to affected people but also to the members of SAR teams, doctors in the field and the experienced humanitarians too. The appropriate use of humour in crisis situations and dis-functional environments is a great tool to make those difficult moments more bearable for everyone. It helps injured and traumatised people cope with what they're facing, and can help them to recover more quickly too. At the same time humorous thinking can help to solve some of the complex problems emergency responders face. This is in addition to emergency and medical only reactions - allowing for a more holistic human perspective, which can provide a positive lasting effect. The ability to laugh is hardwired into our systems bringing a huge variety of physical, mental and social benefits. Even a simple smile can cultivate optimism and hope, while laughter can boost a hormone cocktail - which helps to cope with pain, enhance the immune system, reduce stress, re-focus, connect and unite people during difficult times. Humour as an element of psychological response in crisis situations is increasingly understood in a much wider sense: as the human capacity to plan and achieve desired outcomes with less stress, thus resulting in more 'predictable' work in unpredictable situations. So, if we approach certain problems in the same way Medical Clowns do, we may find a more positive solution. Everyone knows that laughter is an essential component of a healthy, happy life. The delivery of 'permission to laugh' into disaster zones makes a big difference to the quality of life for everyone, even if it's for a very short, but important period of time. And it's crucial to get it right as there is no second chance for the first response.
- Creator(s)
- Thomas Petschner,
- Date
- 12:24am 27th February 2016
- Tags
- People in Disasters, conference, humour, health, Thomas Petschner, clowning, clown doctors, Resilience and Response Stream, Health and Wellbeing
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- People in Disasters Conference - Investing in Connectedness: Building social capital to save lives and aid recovery
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A video of a presentation by Matthew Pratt during the Resilience and Response Stream of the 2016 People in Disasters Conference. The presentation is titled, "Investing in Connectedness: Building social capital to save lives and aid recovery".
The abstract for this presentation reads as follows:
Traditionally experts have developed plans to prepare communities for disasters. This presentation discusses the importance of relationship-building and social capital in building resilient communities that are both 'prepared' to respond to disaster events, and 'enabled' to lead their own recovery. As a member of the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority's Community Resilience Team, I will present the work I undertook to catalyse community recovery. I will draw from case studies of initiatives that have built community connectedness, community capacity, and provided new opportunities for social cohesion and neighbourhood planning. I will compare three case studies that highlight how social capital can aid recovery. Investment in relationships is crucial to aid preparedness and recovery.
- Creator(s)
- Matthew Pratt,
- Date
- 11:09pm 26th February 2016
- Tags
- People in Disasters, conference, Matthew Pratt, community resilience, resilience, CERA, Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority, Resilience and Response Stream, Health and Wellbeing
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- People in Disasters Conference - Panel Five
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A video of the panel discussion during the fifth plenary of the 2016 People in Disasters Conference. The panel is made up of keynote speaker Professor Jonathan Davidson, and guests Associate Professor John Vargo and Associate Professor Sarbjit Johal.
- Creator(s)
- John Vargo, Jonathan Davidson, Sarbjit Johal,
- Date
- 10:24pm 26th February 2016
- Tags
- People in Disasters, conference, plenary, panel discussion, Associate Professor John Vargo, Associate Professor Sarbjit Johal, Professor Jonathan Davidson, Health and Wellbeing
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- People in Disasters Conference - Organisational Resilience is more than just Business Continuity
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A video of a presentation by Associate Professor John Vargo during the fifth plenary of the 2016 People in Disasters Conference. Vargo is a senior researcher and co-leader of the Resilient Organisations Research Programme at the University of Canterbury. The presentation is titled, "Organisational Resilience is more than just Business Continuity".
The abstract for this presentation reads as follows:
Business Continuity Management is well-established process in many larger organisations and a key element in their emergency planning. Research carried out by resilient organisations follow the 2010 and 2011 Canterbury Earthquakes show that most small organisations did not have a business continuity plan (BCP), yet many of these organisations did survive the massive disruptions following the earthquakes. They were resilient to these catastrophic events, but in the absence of a BCP. This research also found that many of the organisations with BCP's, struggled to use them effectively when facing real events that did not align with the BCP. Although the BCPs did a good job of preparing organisations to deal with technology and operational disruptions, there was virtually no coverage for the continuity of people. Issues surrounding staff welfare and engagement were amongst the most crucial issues faced by Canterbury organisations, yet impacts of societal and personal disruption did not feature in BCPs. Resilience is a systematic way of looking at how an organization can survive a crisis and thrive in an uncertain world. Business continuity is an important aspect for surviving the crisis, but it is only part of the bigger picture addressed by organisational resilience. This presentation will show how organizational experiences in the Canterbury earthquakes support the need to move to a 'Business Continuity' for the '21st Century', one that incorporates more aspects of resilience, especially the 'people' areas of leadership, culture, staff welfare, and engagement.
- Creator(s)
- John Vargo,
- Date
- 9:40pm 26th February 2016
- Tags
- People in Disasters, conference, Associate Professor John Vargo, emergency, planning, business, business continuity plan, organisation, plenary, Health and Wellbeing
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- People in Disasters Conference - The Mental Health Impacts of the Canterbury Earthquakes in the Christchurch Health and Development Study Birth Cohort: A 'natural experiment'.
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A video of a keynote presentation by Professor Jonathan Davidson during the fifth plenary of the 2016 People in Disasters Conference. The presentation is titled, "Resilience in People".
The abstract for this presentation reads as follows:
Resilience is the ability to bounce back or adapt successfully in the face of change, and is present to varying degrees in everybody. For at least 50 years resilience has been a topic of study in medical research, with a marked increase occurring in the past decade. In this presentation the essential features of resilience will be defined. Among the determining or mediating factors are neurobiological pathways, genetic characteristics, temperament, and environment events, all of which will be summarized. Adversity, assets, and adjustment need to be taken into account when assessing resilience. Different approaches to measuring the construct include self-rating scales which evaluate: traits and copying, responses to stress, symptom ratings after exposure to actual adversity, behavioural measures in response to a stress, e.g. Trier Test, and biological measures in response to stress. Examples will be provided. Resilience can be a determinant of health outcome, e.g. for coronary heart disease, acute coronary syndrome, diabetes, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) positive status and successful aging. Total score and individual item levels of resilience predict response to dug and psychotherapy in post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. Studies have repeatedly demonstrated that resilience is modifiable. Different treatments and interventions can increase resilience in a matter of weeks, and with an effect size larger than the effect size found for the same treatments on symptoms of illness. There are many ways to enhance resilience, ranging from 'Outward Bound' to mindfulness-based meditation/stress reduction to wellbeing therapy and antidepressant drugs. Treatments that reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety recruit resiliency processes at the same time. Examples will be given.
- Creator(s)
- Jonathan Davidson,
- Date
- 4:49am 26th February 2016
- Tags
- People in Disasters, conference, Professor Jonathan Davidson, change, resilience, response, stress, plenary, keynote, Health and Wellbeing
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- People in Disasters Conference - Leading in Disaster Recovery: A companion through the chaos
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A video of a presentation by Elizabeth McNaughton during the fourth plenary of the 2016 People in Disasters Conference. McNaughton is the Director of the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Learning and Legacy programme at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. The presentation is titled, "Leading in Disaster Recovery: A companion through the chaos".
The abstract for this presentation reads as follows:
Leading in disaster recovery is a deeply human event - it requires us to reach deep inside of ourselves and bring to others the best of who we can be. It's painful, tiring, rewarding and meaningful. The responsibility can be heavy and at times leaders feel alone. The experienced realities of recovery leadership promoted research involving over 100 people around the globe who have worked in disaster recovery. The result is distilled wisdom from those who have walked in similar shoes to serve as a companion and guide for recovery leaders. The leadership themes in Leading in Disaster Recovery: A companion through the chaos include hard-won, honest, personal, brave insights and practical strategies to serve and support other recovery leaders. This guidance is one attempt amongst many others to change the historic tendency to lurch from disaster to disaster without embedding learning and knowledge - something we cannot afford to do if we are to honour those whose lives have been lost or irreversibly changed by disaster. If we are to honour the courageous efforts of those who have previously served disaster-impacted communities we would be better abled to serve those impacted by future disasters.
- Creator(s)
- Elizabeth McNaughton,
- Date
- 4:43am 26th February 2016
- Tags
- People in Disasters, conference, Elizabeth McNaughton, recovery, disaster, leadership, lessons, plenary, Health and Wellbeing
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- People in Disasters Conference - Education Renewal: A sector response to the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake
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A video of a presentation by Garry Williams during the fourth plenary of the 2016 People in Disasters Conference. Williams is the Programme Manager of the Ministry of Education's Greater Christchurch Education Renewal Programme. The presentation is titled, "Education Renewal: A section response to the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake".
The abstract for this presentation reads as follows:
The Canterbury earthquakes caused a disaster recovery situation unparalleled in New Zealand's history. In addition to widespread damage to residential dwellings and destruction of Christchurch's central business district, the earthquakes damaged more than 200 schools from Hurunui in the north, to the Mackenzie District in the east, and Timaru in the south. The impact on education provision was substantial, with the majority of early childhood centres, schools and tertiary providers experiencing damage or subsequent, with the majority of early childhood centres, schools and tertiary providers experiencing damage or subsequent operational issues caused by the ensuing migration of people. Following the February earthquake, over 12,000 students had left the school they had been attending and enrolled elsewhere - often at a school outside the region. Shortened school days and compression of teaching into short periods meant shift-sharing students engaged in the curriculum being delivered in more diverse ways. School principals and staff reported increased fatigue and stress and changes in student behaviours, often related to repeated exposure to and ongoing reminders of the trauma of the earthquakes. While there has been a shift from direct, trauma-related presentations to the indirect effects of psychological adversity and daily life stresses, international experiences tells us that psychological recovery generally lags behind the immediate physical recovery and rebuilding. The Ministries of Health and Education and the Canterbury District Health Board have developed and implemented a joint action plan to address specifically the emerging mental health issues for youth in Canterbury. However, the impact of vulnerable and stressed adults on children's behaviour contributes to the overall impact of ongoing wellbeing issues on the educational outcomes for the community. There is substantial evidence supporting the need to focus on adults' resilience so they can support children and youth. Much of the Ministry's work around supporting children under stress is through supporting the adults responsible for teaching them and leading their schools. The education renewal programme exists to assist education communities to rebuild and look toward renewal. The response to the earthquakes provides a significant opportunity to better meet the needs and aspirations of children and youth people. All the parents want to see their children eager to learn, achieving success, and gaining knowledge and skills that will, in time, enable them to become confident, adaptable, economically independent adults. But this is not always the case, hence our approach to education renewal seeks to address inequities and improve outcome, while prioritising actions that will have a positive impact on learners in greatest need of assistance.
- Creator(s)
- Garry Williams,
- Date
- 4:23am 26th February 2016
- Tags
- People in Disasters, conference, disaster, recovery, education, education renewal, resilience, opportunity, Garry Williams, plenary, Health and Wellbeing