Yes - supporting families through lockdown

The weather is clearing and summer is right around the corner. The team at YES has been working to make sure young people with disabilities and their families are still receiving support. YES has been taking part in sending out food parcels to families in need of the extra support. Food shopping has become difficult to do for those who have a disability and their families while Auckland is still in lockdown. Relieving families of the burden of food shopping has helped them financially and mentally so they are able to care and support themselves and their families.   

YES wants to move on from this lockdown and return to normal life activities so we are able to support and have fun with our youth. YES feels getting the Covid-19 vaccine is a quick way for us to have activities and gatherings safely again. To encourage young people with disabilities to get the vaccine shot, I.Lead is promoting a competition with great prizes (iPhone13, PS5, iPad) on its Facebook page, which requires young people with disabilities to share their experience of their vaccination and the reasons they did it, hoping to bring reassurance about the vaccine to others by listening to their peers and the experience they had with the vaccine.

While waiting for the alert level changes around New Zealand, I.Lead has something to look forward to for next year. YES and the I.Lead committee have postponed their conference to 21st and 22nd February 2022. Due to the Covid outbreak this decision was the safest one to take. If you were registered for the November conference you are still registered for February. You can still register for the conference on the I.Lead website https://ilead.org.nz/; there’ are limited spots remaining, so better be quick.

Exciting news around the social media team at I.Lead, I.Lead has joined Discord as part of the Shore Junction server, where they have their weekly games and interact with other like-minded youth. If you’re not familiar with Discord don’t worry – I.Lead is still pushing strong with their engagement with young people through their usual social media. Facebook and Instagram still have fun things, and TikTok videos, about hacking life.


By: , YES Disability Resource Centre News: with Sonia Thursby (CEO)
sonia@yesdisability.org.nz

Issue 125 November 2021