Article – Seed The Change Overlooking the Avon Heathcote Estuary in the Christchurch suburb of Ferrymead, Connect Chiropractic has been offering community-focused healthcare since 2018. Founded by Dr Matthew Wild and his wife, Dr Alexandra Skjervheim, Connect offers a koha-based …
Overlooking the Avon Heathcote Estuary in the Christchurch suburb of Ferrymead, Connect Chiropractic has been offering community-focused healthcare since 2018. Founded by Dr Matthew Wild and his wife, Dr Alexandra Skjervheim, Connect offers a koha-based payment system to ensure that sustainable chiropractic care is accessible for anyone in the community who needs it. The principles of koha are embedded throughout the practice, with its foundation of reciprocity, exchange and giving apparent in everything Connect does.
Thursday, 8 April 2021, 1:26 pm
Overlooking
the Avon Heathcote Estuary in the Christchurch suburb of
Ferrymead, Connect Chiropractic has been offering
community-focused healthcare since 2018. Founded by Dr
Matthew Wild and his wife, Dr Alexandra Skjervheim, Connect
offers a koha-based payment system to ensure that
sustainable chiropractic care is accessible for anyone in
the community who needs it. The principles of koha are
embedded throughout the practice, with its foundation of
reciprocity, exchange and giving apparent in everything
Connect does.
To support those values, Connect chooses
three community organisations to spotlight each month.
Patients are each given a token to support the organisation
Gemiini Promoting The Shift From Awareness To Acceptance
Gemiini joins the growing movement to integrate individuals with autism into our social fabric.
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SPOKANE, Wash., April 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Gemiini is celebrating Acceptance Month, a movement among advocacy organizations to increase understanding, acceptance, and support for people with autism.
The original 2008 United Nations mandate for a World Autism Awareness Day undergoing a cultural shift. As part of the growing recognition of the gifts and capacities that autistic individuals bring to our society, Gemiini has joined the movement to designate April as Autistic
Acceptance Month.
World Autism Day: Macron meets French families, caregivers to reiterate support
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REUTERS - POOL
French President Emmanuel Macron visited a monitoring center for autistic people near Grenoble on Friday, to mark World Autism Awareness Day. He reiterated the goal to have one center like this in each of France s 100 departments by 2022.
Together with Sophie Cluzel, Secretary of State in charge of People with Disabilities, and Claire Compagnon, who oversees the government s autism programme, Macron spoke with parents of autistic children and professionals at the Autism Spectrum Disorders unit in Saint-Egrève, near Switzerland, a center specialising in the detection and diagnosis of autism.
Daily Times
April 2, 2021
This year, the World Autism Awareness Day – 2nd April – is again being celebrated in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic that has changed our lives so drastically. Nevertheless, a large number of events are taking place online to create awareness about autism through webinars, trainings and conferences.
A Regional Conference on Autism was organized by Autism Welfare Trust in Lahore on 1st April to kick off a series of events for World Autism Awareness Month. The speakers were from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal and Pakistan. The zoom webinar was supported by livestreaming of the Conference on Facebook as well, providing access to hundreds of viewers.