Join a free workshop in Palmerston North for disability whānau carers. Learn about support, funding, and wellbeing in your community.
28/10/2025
Today is UN International Day of Care and Support, a time to celebrate the incredible mahi of carers! 🤍
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Through our work and our team, we see first-hand the powerful impact carers have on the disability community. We know the past year has been especially challenging, and we want to say thank you for your ongoing dedication and love, it truly makes a difference.
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Tonight at 7pm, we’re partnering with New Zealand Down Syndrome Association (NZDSA) to host an online wellbeing workshop for carers. Together, we’ll explore tools to strengthen resilience, nurture balance, and support your wellbeing.
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Register here: https://carematters.org.nz/events/nzdsa-wellbeing/
REMINDER: tomorrow night Care Matters and the New Zealand Down Syndrome Association (NZDSA) are excited to bring the Down syndrome community a care and wellbeing workshop!
To mark the UN International Day of Care and Support, we invite parents, family, whānau, and aiga carers to a special workshop honouring your incredible mahi.
This free wellbeing workshop is designed as a calm, welcoming space where you can pause, connect, and focus on you. Together, we’ll explore tools and ideas to strengthen resilience, nurture balance, and support you in the important role you play.
Date: Wednesday 29 October 2025
Time: 7.00-8.30pm
Online
Miriam has been part of the Care Matters community for many years, attending eight workshops so far! Her ongoing connection reminds us why we do what we do🤍 Each year brings new questions, tools, and insights to share, and we love walking alongside people through their journeys 👥
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Find a workshop near you and join us! 💻
An intro slide about workshop feedback. Then, Miriam chats to the camera, she wears a beige cardigan over a white top. She has light hair tied up and wears glasses. She is sitting at a table, behind her are desks and a large window with trees. The video ends with hands holding and text encouraging you to register for a workshop via the www.carematters.org.nz website.
A flyer titled “Upcoming Care Matters Workshops” which lists the three upcoming sessions. The Care Matters logo and website link www.carematters.co.nz are at the bottom. The colours are creams, browns and green.
03/09/2025
The Care Matters Team would love to connect with family and whānau carers in your community 🤝 ✨.
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We come to you and offer free, relaxed workshops where you can share kai, learn, and kōrero with others who understand the journey 🙌. Our team are also family and whānau who have walked similar paths 👣.
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Workshops can be tailored to suit your group. We are flexible, and they can be one-off sessions or a two-day journey, held in the daytime or evening.
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Frequent topics include:
- History of disability in Aotearoa
- Enabling Good Lives
- Ageing well
- Adolescence and puberty
- Wellness
- How to negotiate for what you want
- What's in your community
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If this sounds like something your community would value, please contact Tina Lincoln at tina@carematters.org.nz or text 027 318 7258 💻 ☎️.
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We’d love to hear from you 🦻.
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A Care Matters flyer. In large and blue text “WANT A WORKSHOP FOR WHĀNAU CARERS?”.
It explains that the Care Matters team will come to your community with resources, lived experience, and kai, for free.
It includes a call for expressions of interest and lists possible workshop topics. There is an illustration in blue of people listening to someone speaking. At the bottom are contact details and the Care Matters logo.
13/08/2025
We’re so pleased to welcome Tina Lincoln back to the Care Matters and SAMS space! 🙌
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Over the past nine months, Tina has been on sabbatical at VisAble, doing important safeguarding work. Her time there deepened her understanding of how communities can connect better with safeguarding agencies, how abuse can sometimes go unnoticed or be seen as the norm, and how working across multiple agencies can help untangle complex systems while making sure the voices of Disabled People are heard 🗣️📢 .
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With 19 years at SAMS, Tina has been greatly missed, especially for her wise words, quick wit, and unwavering advocacy. Her return brings fresh energy, insight, and strength to our work 🌟.
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Tina is back as Development Manager at Care Matters and will continue as a Senior Leadership Team Member at SAMS. We’re looking forward to what's ahead with her back on board.
Hoki mai anō!
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Tina has wavy brown hair tied back, she wears a black top with a colourful floral pattern over a long-sleeved black shirt. She's in a bright room with couches, large windows, and a potted plant in the background.
30/07/2025
Moemoe and Hailey recently hosted two workshops in Auckland. 🛫
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Our smaller groups create space for real kōrero and tailored support on topics you're interested in like ORS, funding, autism, wellbeing, and effective communication. 💬 🤝
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Our incredible whānau facilitators are here to explore what matters most to you. 🤍
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A small group of people are sitting around tables. They are facing a screen displaying a slide titled "Preparing for the assessment." Some people are listening while others are talking. The room has a high ceiling, soft lighting, and tree designs on the walls. There are notes, cups, and papers on the tables.
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The National Carer Learning and Wellbeing Resource Service has four core objectives. These are to:
Enhance the health and wellbeing of carers, family/whanau and disabled people through the provision of current, relevant, consistent and accessible learning information
Strengthen carer knowledge and understanding on a wide range of topics and support its application
Enhance the relationship between carers and the disabled people they care for
Increase carer confidence and self-esteem in undertaking their caring responsibilities.
To achieve these objectives Care Matters:
Operates a freephone service for Carers
Ensures relevant materials are developed and placed on a website – www.carematters.org.nz
Facilitates a range of workshops and courses around New Zealand
Develops a network of carers who can offer leadership to carers regionally.
