What's New
The Forgotten Children
In November 2009 EUFAMI held its very successful
conference on the topic of children
of Parents with a Mental Illness - The Forgotten Children – in Vilnius, Lithuania. EUFAMI committed to the
establishment of an Action Network as a deliverable from the conference. This
has now been established as a Facebook Group titled 'Friends of the Forgotten
Children'. We are now issuing an invitation to you to join this group and
become an active contributing friend.
The group has been created using most popular social networking platform
(Facebook) and is the result of EUFAMI's initiative to set up a forum where issues
which were raised and debated at the conference on children of parents
with a mental illness can be further discussed. The network can also be used to
upload and distribute examples of good practices and actions which are taking
place across Europe and further afield. These
can then be accessed by anybody who may be looking for information in
order to re-create similar work in their own countries. The network is
managed and facilitated by EUFAMI and was officially launched at a seminar on
the subject of Mental health which took place at the European Parliament in
Brussels
on 2nd June 2010.
If you wish
to become a friend of the Forgotten Children, simply log onto the information
page for the network through Facebook and send a request to become a member.
You can do this by following the link Friends of the Forgotten Children on Facebook or in case this does not
work, by pasting the following link in your browser address bar:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=118331018189669&ref=ts
EUFAMI also issue a monthly
bulletin and publish it on the website http://www.eufami.org . Previous bulletins are
available if you scroll down the page of the EUFAMI website. The
Forgotten Children group is included in the July Bulletin.
Kids Club -
For kids who have a parent, family or
whanau member with mental illness
Why Kids
Club?
When someone has a mental illness, we believe that everyone in their
family deserves some support, especially kids. Children
identify that being with others in similar situations is something that helps
them to cope better with everyday challenges and feel more confident living in
a family/whanau where someone has mental illness.
Fun
Activities
Kids Club is simply about kids hanging out with other kids and having a good
time together! Here are some examples of the types of things we will be
doing:
- Arts &
Crafts - such as clay models, face painting, puppet making, flax weaving
- Playing games / sports
- Listening to & making music
- Reading &
story telling
Kids club
staff will be trained mental health professionals, who can offer
support to kids and to parents involved in the programme.
Kids Club
Details
Who can join:
Children aged 8-12 who have a family/whanau member with a mental illness.
When: Fortnightly,
after school during term time from 3:30pm until 5:00pm.
Venue: Fellowship
House, 423 Great North Road,
Grey Lynn, Auckland
Other
venues will be considered subject to interest.
For more
information about Kids Club please contact:
Lisa or Natalie Ph: 09 378 9134 or Email: natalie@sfauckland.org.nz or
lisa.forshaw@sfauckland.org.nz
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