Pasifika Autism Support Group PASG

Thank you to all of our Aiga & Superheroes that came through on Saturday gone, it was so cool to see such a full house. Whether you came out for 10 minutes or an hour, we were so grateful to see you come through to check in and hang with us.

Bonus 💫
We got to meet and hang with some new families, so once again welcome to all of our new aiga to PASG. Lets journey together 🧡

📣 Coming up this Saturday, our PASG meeting for the term, all are welcome!! 🌺
❤️ Saturday 24 August
💙 10.00am - 1.00pm
💛 Sommerville School
💚 80a Tripoli Road, Panmure

❤️💙 PASG June meeting💛💚
Thank you to all the families who joined our meeting!! A big faafetai to Gafa Maiava, SENCo teacher who provided ORRs knowledge and support for our parents. Be empowered!!
Have a great week, Ia manuia

Thank you for sponsoring our event Pasifika Futures

📣 SAVE THE DATE: Our term two PASG meeting is on this Saturday, we'd love to see you and your family there! 🥰

🎧🎶 Thank you to all the families who attended our PASG Superhero Silent Disco on Saturday!! We really enjoyed seeing everyone enjoy the event in their own way!! Thanks for sending your photos for us to share too! 📸

Fa'afetai tele lava for:
❤️ Funding from Pasifika Futures
💙 Our host's Sommerville School
💛 Silent Disco provider's Papaya Stories
💚 Feleoko food hampers from The Fono

🇼🇸 The 2024 theme for Samoa Language Week was 'Tautua i le alofa, manuia le lumana’i – Serve in love for a blessed future' and it is a privilege for us to serve our PASG community! 🌺

🎧🎶🦸🏾‍♀️ PASG Superhero Silent Disco! 🦸🏾‍♂️🎶🎧
We're celebrating our superheroes with a fun, family night out! Limited tickets available, click on the link to book 🎟️

PASG Superhero Silent Disco We're celebrating our Superhero's with a fun, family night out! Dress up in your favourite hero / character / colour / clothes and we'll see you...

Reminder tomorrow for all of our Super Fathers zoom check-in tomorrow at 7.30pm.
Please share with other Fathers on the journey ⭐️

Kelly Tarlton's are offering a sensory morning session!

What is a sensory morning?
A morning where they open earlier, giving the opportunity for families and individuals that are likely to experience sensory overload during their normal operating environment to visit in a reduced sensory environment.

What a sensory morning looks like:
• Reduction of light and sound levels
• Reduced capacity
This event is only available for 100 people and is free, So RSVP quick!

Date: 23rd June 2024
Time: 8am – 9am
RSVP: [email protected] by Monday the 10th of June. - Please share this with your groups and anyone interested.

Thank you to our beautiful Mama’s who came out today, despite the many things on our list to do as mothers. It was very nice to just be able to sit, chat & enjoy each other’s company for 2hrs.

We shared a picture that resonates with us Mama’s in this journey we share. Words such as powerful, reset, tiredness, drained, disconnect and many others emphasised of how we Mama’s must take care of ourselves.

We honour all of our Mamā’s who look after our unique superheroes. We value all that you do.

Special mentions to the two beautiful ladies with our small gifts Lama Ma*oe & Clarice Yerkovich.

Manuia le a*o Tinā

Fa’afetai & Malo Aupito to all our beautiful Mama’s who registered for this event.
We are now fully booked, and unable to take anymore due to venue capacity.

* It is important if you have registered and unable to attend pls contact via email your apologies before event starts. So we can give this opportunity to another Mama.

Vinaka vaka levu 🌺

AUCKLAND MAMA's:

That time again where Us Mama's meet again & talanoa over a coffee & muffin on us for two hours.
Celebrating our Tinā's this Mother's Day.
Book a seat by clicking on this link
https://www.trybooking.com/nz/SCS

P.S Please be certain you Mama are attending, as we don't want any other Mama's missing out 🌺

World-leading autism clinic hopes to improve outcomes for autistic children nationwide | Newshub Raupī te Raupō will give 60 families one-to-one support sessions to help them better understand and support their child.

Faafetai tele lava to everyone who has bought a tusi in support of Autism Acceptance Month ❤️🧩✨ With well over 100 copies of our Vāsifika title sold this month, we feel so very blessed to be able support and promote Autism awareness and understanding all year round for our tamaiti and Pasifika families.

Alofa tele atu from all of the authors, the families and the amazing team behind Vāsifika - Our Autism Journeys 🙏🏾📚

www.milasbooks.com

❤️💙 PASG Wellington Families 💛💚

Our last event of the month, our Aiga day out. Please come along join us!! There will be face painting, arts and craft and indoor activities in the hall. Games in the outside area. Big and small playgrounds. A pathway for skates, bikes and scooters. And of course bubbles!! Light nibbles will be provided.

Please book via this link https://www.trybooking.com/nz/SAI for catering purposes 🙏

We hope to see you there ❤️💙💛💚

Fantastic update thanks to the incredible advocates who challenged the previous March 18 update! ✅👏🏾

Good morning everyone,

Whaikaha has informed us that there have been clarifications and updates to the purchasing rules. The good news for the Autistic and wider Autism communities is that sensory items, tablet devices and noise-cancelling headphones are able to be purchased with funding.

Another change that may impact some people in this community: the changes from 18th March will not be applied to people who would have had to go into residential care as a result; and similarly, anyone who would have had to drop out of study, employment, or therapy as a result of the changes will get whatever they need to continue with study/employment/therapy funded, as long as it was committed to before 18th March.

At this stage, accommodation costs for respite for carers are still not funded, but this is something that Whaikaha is doing further work on.

We will post links to Whaikaha's documentation in the comments, and will answer whatever questions we can. This information has been provided to various disability providers across the sector, so your funding provider will have these updates and will be able to give you further information and guidance too.

We're grateful to everyone who spoke up and advocated for their needs and the needs of loved ones. We will continue to communicate your feedback to Whaikaha and the Minister, and make sure that this community has their voice heard.

Talofa lava Families, your voice and input plays a huge part towards this. Click on the link to complete the survey. Have your say now, not later.

Whaikaha - Ministry of Disabled People is calling on Pacific disabled people and their families to share their experience of disability through an online survey. The survey, with alternate formats, complements a series of meetings being held across the country.

The information gathered during the meetings and through the survey will help Whaikaha develop its National Pacific Disability Action Plan.

Find out more and take the survey now: https://bit.ly/3JoZUhv

Huge shout-out to all the Mum’s & Dad’s that checked in over the last two weeks via zoom.

Parents, caregivers & aiga, your mental well-being is paramount 😊

Keep a look out for the next zoom next month 💻

🦸🏾‍♀️ Reminder for our Mums/Tinā to join us on Zoom tomorrow night!! 👩🏾‍💻

❤️💙 PASG Play-Date at Inflatable World 💛💚
Thank you to all the families who joined us last night, we had the BEST time!! What a wonderful way to celebrate our amazing children, our journey together and Autism Acceptance Month! 🎉

📣 How awesome for one of our PASG Dads Ali Cowley to have the opportunity to promote Autism Acceptance month and Pasifika Autism Support Group with everybody's faves, Ja*on Momoa and Jack Black!!! 🤩🔱🐼💗

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Ministry for Disabled People under fire for spending $10m on contractors, consultants in a year Newshub's obtained the spending details.

Love our Wellington PASG leaders, Anna Puafiti Filemoni and Daniel Filemoni and their journey ❤️💛💙💚 Be inspired “It takes a village to raise a child” So thankful for the village. We are Thriving!

Samoan family embracing Autism Acceptance Awareness Month - TP+ The first day of April 2024 marked the first day of Autism Acceptance Month and the theme for the United Nations Global Autism Acceptance Day is ‘From Surviving to Thriving!’

Check-in sessions for our awesome PASG parents! 💗 Join us via Zoom with your cameras on and mics off, ready to start! 🎥 🔇
🦸🏾‍♂️ Dads/Tamā
Thursday 11 April
6.30pm - 7.30pm
Meeting ID: 894 1262 1807
Passcode: pasgdad
🦸🏾‍♀️ Mums/Tinā
Thursday 18 April
6.30 - 7.30pm
Meeting ID: 829 3859 5960
Passcode: pasgmum