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People First New Zealand Inc. – Nga Tangata Tuatahi “Nothing about us without us” From across the Tasman

People First New Zealand Inc. – Nga Tangata Tuatahi “Nothing about us without us” From across the Tasman

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People First New Zealand Inc. – Nga Tangata Tuatahi

“Nothing about us without us”

From across the Tasman

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Kia Ora Hello

From Aotearoa New Zealand -the land of the long white cloud

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Kiaora Hello from New Zealand

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My Hometown - Nelson

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About People First NZ

Our work with the United Nations Convention

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What we are going to talk about

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People First is International

People First started in Salem Oregon in America in 1974.

People First is in many countries like England, Scotland, Canada and Germany and here in Australia.

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People First in New Zealand

People First was started in 1984 in New Zealand.

It was started and supported by Ihc for the first 20 years.

1984

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In 2003 Ihc supported People First to become an independent organisation.

On the 16th of October 2003 People First launched the independent organisation at Parliament and then we had a party!

Going Independent

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People First NZ is a Disabled Persons Organisation ( DPO). This means People First only has Disabled people in its governance structure.

It is a national self advocacy organisation led by and for people with learning disability.

People First is an Incorporated Society and there are hundreds of members from all over New Zealand.

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INCORPORATED

SOCIETY

People First – Nga Tangata Tuatahi

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To be a member you need to have a learning/intellectual disability and be over the age of 18.

People First – Nga Tangata Tuatahi

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People First Groups and Regions

People First has around 30 local groups that are split into 6 regions

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Members learn about their rights and how to self advocate for what they want: in their lives

In their community

Local groups have guest speakers

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People First Local Groups

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Local groups work with other disability advocacy organisations such as DPA

Members get involved in local events

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People First – Nga Tangata Tuatahi

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People First NZ has a national office in Wellington National office staff are:

Cindy JohnsNational Manager

Crystal FangNational Finance Manager-based in

Auckland

Janet DoughtyProjector Coordinator

Phyllis McPhersonMembers Database Coordinator-based in

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People First National Office Staff

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If you can‘t be a member, you can still support People First by becoming a Friend.

Friends get the People First newsletter.

Friends can give their time or money or both to assist People First at local, regional or national levels.

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Friends of People First NZ - Nga Tangata Tuatahi

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People First also does a range of projects

Two of these projects are:

leadership development

speaking up courses

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People First Projects

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People First has a national project doing leadership development in the regions and holding a national leadership forum at the end of the year.

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People First Leadership

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Speaking Up Courses

Speaking Up courses assist people to speak up in their life

People First has trained members and assistants to lead Speaking Up groups

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People First also:

provides disability information and advice

has an Easy Read translation service

Has an employment advocacy service – Works4Us

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More about People First NZ - Nga Tangata Tuatahi

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People First also:

Has members at many national advisory groups and committees

Speaks up at government level

Is part of the UN Convention Coalition monitoring the rights of Disabled people

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More about People First New Zealand

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People First’s Work with the UN Convention

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Robert Martin at the UN

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Speaking up

Use the Easy Read convention to speak up

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Learning and teaching others

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The Convention Coalition

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Disabled Persons Organisation ( DPO)

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Convention Coalition work

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Convention Coalition work

Writing a report

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Easy Read Translations

Having information in ways we can understand

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Winning an award

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Keep speaking up

Our work with the Convention will not stop here

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