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Advocacy support – problems with insurance companies
The Sunday Star-Times, as reported on the Scoop website, ran an article on Sunday about the problems a few earthquake-affected policy holders have with their insurance companies. Written by Lois...
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Free Counselling
Free counselling is available from any of these agencies: Counselling Helpline 0800 777 846 Victim Support 0800 842 846 24/7. Telephone contact. People may need to leave their details and a volunteer...
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Strategies for parents – supporting children after an earthquake
SKIP (Strategies with Kids, Information for Parents) has a website to provide ideas and tips for supporting families and friends after an earthquake. The website is here.
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Disaster Planning and Mental Health
That disasters cause mental health problems is obvious to most people, and understood and accepted by many. In every large scale disaster there will be those who are pushed beyond their ability to...
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Is this depression?
The Ministry of Health have a website called Depression. Featuring John Kirwan, the website is designed to help people analyse how they feel and what they are going through, and determine if they are...
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Support availability for the holiday period
During the Christmas shut-down period some support services will still be available if required. The following is from the CERA web site, and a list of support services is available here. Canterbury...
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Earthquakes and human cognitive performance
Science Daily, an on-line science news service, has a report on New Zealand research done into the impact of a natural disaster (September 4, 2010 earthquake) on the ability of individuals to assess...
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Earthquake seminars – Mental Health Education and Resource Centre (MHERC)
The Mental Health Education and Resource Centre and the University of Canterbury have joined together to offer free earthquake seminars. The seminars will provide an opportunity to: Learn strategies to...
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Post-earthquake stress
We are all aware of the difficulties of living through and after a disastrous event. There are also the difficulties of trying to understand what is happening to and within us, and others. Some very...
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N Z Red Cross – helping young people get through stress
From the NZ Red Cross website (here): New Zealand Red Cross has identified a gap with regard to young people affected by the Canterbury earthquakes and their access to trauma recovery resources. In...
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