Strong Voices

The online medication management platform 1CHART has now been successfully rolled out to almost 600 residential homes across Aotearoa, making IDEA Services the first disability service provider in New Zealand to introduce an online system.

It wasn’t quite dark, but the lights and sights of LUMA 2023 filled the Queenstown Gardens with mystery and excitement.

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For 10 years some environmental warriors have been battling to protect the Castlecliff sand dunes at Whanganui.

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Singers, dancers and musicians from IDEA Services recently put a newly upgraded community theatre in Wellington through its paces.

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Napier’s much-photographed Pania of the Reef was attracting attention from a group of people with cameras. But this time they weren’t tourists.

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The hard work is much more satisfying since a group of Christchurch IDEA Services volunteers joined the Student Volunteer Army.

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IDEA Services could do with more people like Ghanshyam Diyora. And thanks to him, we have more people like him.

When some old tree ferns were removed from a Mosgiel backyard in November last year, they left behind a bare fence line and empty spaces. That provided a blank canvas for the creative types among the staff and residents at an IDEA Services home.

A new Māori strategy is giving IDEA Services staff the confidence to explore cultural opportunities with the people we support.

It’s hard to innovate in the middle of a pandemic. But it might also be exactly the right time to rethink how the lives of people we support can be more creative, be more fulfilling and have more freedom.

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