A mental health service that uses mahi toi (the arts) to create culturally safe spaces will reach into rural Tairāwhiti.
Funding of $900,000 will go towards primary mental health services on the East Coast and rural west of Tairāwhiti.
Photo: Liam Clayton/The Gisborne Herald/ LDR
The primary mental health service will support west rural and East Coast communities and is expected to start between April and June.
A report before Hauora Tairāwhiti s district health board last month said $900,000 left over from another Ministry of Health contract would fund the service over two years.
But as it was a finite resource to 2022, with no guarantees of funding being extended, building leadership capability within the community would be key to making the service sustainable, the report said.
Watch: Footage shows wave surges hitting Tokomaru Bay on East Coast
5 Mar, 2021 03:52 PM
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Footage of waves rolling in from Tokomaru Bay. Video / Claudia Maaka / Waiapu Civil Defence / Gina Pewhairangi
Footage of waves rolling in from Tokomaru Bay. Video / Claudia Maaka / Waiapu Civil Defence / Gina Pewhairangi
NZ Herald
Footage of surging waves hitting Tokomaru Bay, on the East Coast, has been posted on social media.
Waiapu Civil Defence posted the video, taken by Claudia Maaka, showing the waves hitting the bay about 11.30am on Friday, following the 8.1 magnitude earthquake in the Kermadec Islands earlier today. Gina Pewhairangi posted a similar video as residents watched from nearby hills.
Tokomaru Bay resident captures large abnormal waves rolling in NZ 05/03/2021
Tokomaru Bay resident Claudia Maaka has captured a video of the first waves arriving on the shores of the East Coast.
In the video, shared on Facebook by Manu Caddie, huge waves can be seen rolling toward the shore. Claudia has filmed the clip safely from a high vantage point.
Watch below and keep informed by visiting the Civil Defence NZ website.
This Friday was expected to herald a possible reduction in Covid-19 alert levels for many New Zealanders, but the first big shake off East Cape in the wee hours of the morning meant a sudden change of plans for many.
Three earthquakes off the coast of New Zealand today has meant threat of tsunami for many on the coast, prompting towns to be evacuated, their people sheltering on high ground for hours.
Read how it all unfolded.
Photo: RNZ
At 2.27am a severe 7.1 magnitude quake struck 100km east of Te Araroa. It was widely felt across the North Island and parts of the South Island - by 3am, nearly 60,000 people reported feeling it on Geonet.