Wow can you believe it!! We are in the final week of 2022 and what a year it has been. On behalf of the NIUPATCH team we would like to wish everyone a great end to their 2022 🙌🙌🙌 Be safe, enjoy time with family and friends. #finalweek #enjoytime 🔥🔥

Welcome NIUPATCH Community to the new year of 2023!! 🥳🥳 Happy New Years to you all and we hope you've had such a great time of rest and recovery spending it with loved ones and enjoying the nice break. 🙌 Here's a little taste of things we will be doing in 2023 #enjoy

2023 | Happy New Years NIUPATCH fam! Last year NIUPATCH was blessed to launch our Urban Resilience (UR) Podcast 🙏🏾 Look no further for your Jan 2023 inspo and be blessed by stories of resilience through a Pasifika lens within the urban spaces we're navigating right now 🔁🙌🏾🔥

Introducing one of our Pracademics (Practitioner & Academic) in the NIUPATCH Research Village, our amazing Taulaga Alatimu, whose PhD is ' Loto Maliē (wilful heart): Understanding Pacific youth mental wellbeing' 🍃 #FaithAccord #PacificPracademic #Pacificyouthmentalwellbeing

Just acknowledging the work of our JCDR & GNS Science colleagues with iwi and communities in the Tairāwhiti region - always awesome to see genuine community partnerships in action 🙌🏾 #communitypartnerships #communities loom.ly/jJVjtf8

Recap of UR Podcast Season 1 🎧 Episode 2 - Resilience in Education w/ Principal of Roscommon School, Sonia Johnston 🔥 How Sonia's faith-led approach help her navigate and balance being a Mum and young Principal working in South Auckland 🙏🏾✨ #URPodcast #PacificEducation

This 👇🏾 Best take on Auckland floods poor management ⁦⁦JCDR⁩ “this notion that we were overwhelmed has no basis in fact..It becomes problematic because if you start defending that line we don’t learn anything.” stuff.co.nz/national/13109…

Another one 👇🏾 nzherald.co.nz/nz/wayne-brown…

If anyone is needing help due to the Auckland flood damage contact our friends ⁦Affirming Works Ltd⁩ who can and will provide necessary support to you and your aiga #resilientcommunities m.facebook.com/groups/1079111…

Needing support or help due to the Auckland Flooding?? Find it at the Pacific Response Hub 🙌🏾 Providing help and support to all #communityresilience#Pacificpartnerships

Stay Informed If the power goes out, a solar-/battery-powered radio (or your car radio) can help you keep up to date with the latest news Check with your Civil Defence Group to find out what local stations they recommend you listen to during an emergency: civildefence.govt.nz/find-your-civi…

“Most of these guys have lost everything. Walked through neck high floods with suitcases holding all they have left. It’s been hectic. We’ve had over 400+ evacuated to our support site - 300 of them are RSE workers. A very overwhelming time for the workers.”

Awesome to see a strong cohort of emerging Pasifika researchers here at Disastrous Doctorates, exploring how traditional worldviews & knowledges can inform risk reduction for home islands & diaspora. NIUPATCH Massey University JCDR doing good work supporting this talent. #DD2023

Please families and friends read post below. 👇🏾👇🏾 m.facebook.com/groups/1079111…

Also in the NIUPATCH Research Village is our brilliant Rochelle Nafatali, who submitted her DClinPsych “E lē Ma’i, o le Malosi! (He’s not Sick, He’s Strong!): Pacific Parents’ Journey of Raising Autistic Children in Aotearoa” ✨ ❤️💙💛💚 #FaithAccord #Pracademic #PasifikaAutism

Recap of UR Podcast Season 1 🎧 Episode 3 - Resilience with Youth w/ Youth Pastor David Palamo 🙏🏾 In many years of work with youth, David offers priceless reminders relevant to all of us - love through action ✨ Check out the full episode below 👇🏾😍

Recap of UR Podcast Season 1, Ep 4 with Pili Apulu 🎧 'Sometimes you will plant seeds for trees you will never sit under' 🌱 May we continue to plant seeds of love and resilience in our worlds today, be blessed everyone ✨ Full episode below 👇🏾🔥

Continuing on with the NIUPATCH Research Village with another of our Samoan sisters Eirenei Taua'i 🇼🇸 Her heartfelt research is on 'Tausi matua: Exploring the elder caregiving experiences of Samoans during Covid-19 pandemic 💕 #FaithAccord #Tausimatua #Samoanwayofeldercare

Adding to the NIUPATCH Research village, Gloria Finau from the Kingdom of Tonga 🇹🇴 #MMT Glorias Master of Science (Psychology) is on how the BBM way utilises social media to = success 🙅🏾‍♀️🙅🏾‍♂️ 📱 🫵🏾>👋🏾 >🤲🏾 >👏🏾>💪🏾🫶🏾✨ #FaithAccord #BrownButtabeanMotivation #Pacificonsocials

Moving onto the other half of the BBM duo is Alosina Nua, NZ/European Samoan 🇼🇸 Her Master of Arts (Psychology) looks at what makes the BBM way successful & how it could work in the wider health system 🙅🏾‍♀️🙅🏾‍♂️ 🤲🏾🌏 x 🐚🌴 = 💪🏾🫶🏾✨ #FaithAccord #BBMway #Pacifichealthsystems