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Instagram Teen Accounts

18th September 2024

📣NEW from Meta and Instagram!!!!!
The new Instagram Teen Account protections are designed to address parents’ biggest concerns, including who their teens are talking to online, the content they’re seeing and whether their time is being well spent. These protections are turned on automatically, and parents decide if teens under 16 can change any of these settings to be less strict:
✔Private accounts: With default private accounts, teens need to accept new followers and people who don’t follow them can’t see their content or interact with them. This applies to all teens under 16 (including those already on Instagram and those signing up) and teens under 18 when they sign up for the app.
✔Messaging restrictions: Teens will be placed in the strictest messaging settings, so they can only be messaged by people they follow or are already connected to.
✔Sensitive content restrictions: Teens will automatically be placed into the most restrictive setting of our sensitive content control, which limits the type of sensitive content (such as content that shows people fighting or promotes cosmetic procedures) teens see in places like Explore and Reels.
✔Limited interactions: Teens can only be tagged or mentioned by people they follow. We’ll also automatically turn on the most restrictive version of our anti-bullying feature, Hidden Words, so that offensive words and phrases will be filtered out of teens’ comments and DM requests.
✔Time limit reminders: Teens will get notifications telling them to leave the app after 60 minutes each day.
✔Sleep mode enabled: Sleep mode will be turned on between 10 PM and 7 AM, which will mute notifications overnight and send auto-replies to DMs.
“We plan to place teens into Teen Accounts within 60 days in the US, UK, Canada and Australia, and in the European Union later this year. Teens around the world will start to get Teen Accounts in January.”

Have A Go at Summer Sports

7th September 2024

Summer Sport is coming & Sunday is a great day to ‘Have A Go’ at 3 local sports:
Parklands Christchurch United Softball Club, Have a go day – Eastern Canopy, 10am-11am, come along to try out softball and tee ball, all ages and abilities welcome!
New Brighton Cricket Club, junior come have a go! – Eastern Canopy, 3pm-5pm, all welcome, 5yrs-14yrs
South Brighton Tennis Club, Love Tennis open day – 10am-2pm at South Brighton Tennis Club, all equipment provided, prizes, giveaways, BBQ & more!

September is Wills Month

7th September 2024

Creat a FREE Will! It’s not a job anyone likes to do, but here’s a reminder to create or update this all-important record of your wishes for when you pass away. When you do, would you consider leaving a legacy gift for young people on the east of Christchurch, through the work of YAT?? Lawyers can talk you through more complicated situations, or here’s a FREE simple online version available until 9th September that is checked by lawyers: https://safewill.com/nz
(Note: if you don’t want it stored on their system, click the box at the end, and don’t put in your credit card details, and it’s completely free)

Rock Solid @ Kairos

6th September 2024

Loved our Community Project night with our Rock Solid club, serving Kairos Food Rescue with some food packaging, and learning about the amazing work they do rescuing food and serving some of our cities most vulnerable people. Just this year they have rescued and distributed 560,000kg of food, working with 59 groups to help distribute it. Contact them direct to get involved through food rescue, volunteering or donating: www.kairosfoodrescue.org.nz

All the BEST Hannah!

5th September 2024

It’s with both sadness â˜čand happiness😁that we say goodbye to Hannah, our Oscar Coordinator – who is now on maternity leave đŸšŒ Hannah has served young people at YAT for the past 4 years, and has brought kindness, gentleness, efficiency and a lot of fun to our programmes. You’ll be an amazing Mum and everyone can’t wait to meet babyđŸ‘¶But you’ve also planned it perfectly with Shelly, who has just returned from maternity leave to re-take the reigns as Oscar Coordinator! Welcome back Shelly!! Our Oscar Programme runs everyday and collects young people in School Years 4-9 from all local schools – spaces are available so check out our website for more info.

Building Awesome Whānau

30th August 2024


Parenting Place Video

There is no such thing as a ‘parenting manual’, so any hints and tips we can get on the way must be helpful for both us and our children! Check out this upcoming 6 week parenting course called, Building Awesome Whānau, running Thursday daytimes from 11am – 1pm at Youth Alive Trust, by our Mana Ake team. Limited spaces and this course is FREE for a limited time thanks to @Parenting Place. Email: dani.boxall@yat.org.nz for registration or more info.

Holiday Programmes – LIVE

29th August 2024

Our Sept/Oct Holiday Programme bookings are now LIVE!!! The first week of the school holidays, 30th Sept – 4th Oct 2024.  Click on the hyperlinks below to view the brochures:

UPDATE: Children in School Year 6, can book for either Piwakawaka or Pukeko. This is to encourage those feeling too old for Pukeko and to help with the transition for those going into that age group next year anyway. Please chose one of the other, not both programmes though.

Note: Activities are subject to change, due to weather, staffing or other circumstances.

Priority Bookings

Youth Alive Trust are only accepting bookings from previous families who have registered for our programmes in the past 12 months up until 12noon Wednesday 4th Sept. This is to provide time for our regulars to make a booking, so they don’t miss out. After 12noon Wednesday, we will accept bookings from anyone else.

Oscar Subsidy

Check out if you’re eligible for government subsidies.  If you have 3 or more children, you now need to be earning more than $2,902 per week to not be eligible for any support. If you have 2 children, you need to be earning more than $2,579 per week and if just 1 child, $2,257 per week (gross).  This is a dramatic increase and many probably don’t realise they will qualify, if they just jump through a few bits of paperwork. The subsidy is only for those in work or study who need childcare. Click on the link below for full information about applying for the subsidy:

Out of School Care and Recreation (OSCAR) Subsidy – Work and Income

Booking Confirmation Policy

If you click that you’re applying for a government subsidy, then YAT’s policy is to only ‘confirm’ your booking once we’ve received your completed WINZ forms. We need to sign your form, so this can be dropped off at reception anytime in office hours, and we can send the paperwork to WINZ for you. OR, once we’ve signed it, we can take a copy, in case WINZ loose it (which does happen) and you can take it all into WINZ yourself.

Your booking will sit in the ‘Pending’ category for a week, until we’ve seen the paperwork. If we’ve not seen the paperwork, there is a chance your booking will be cancelled unless you get in touch to explain circumstances: rego@yat.org.nz

A reminder that you and we often don’t find out about how much WINZ will contribute to your holiday programme fees until after the programme, so you are responsible for any shortfall to be paid as soon as possible.

Staffing Changes

We’re sad that Hannah has left the YAT team this week – but stoked that she’s going on maternity leave and we will soon have another YAT baby! Amazingly, Shelly has returned from her maternity leave also this week, and will resume her role as Oscar coordinator and Holiday Programme administrator too. Contact her direct at: rego@yat.org.nz

Bookings

All Bookings are done online at: https://yat.aimyplus.com

Here’s a reminder of how to make a booking after logging in:

– Click on ‘Make a booking’

– Select childs name

– Choose Programme Venue: ‘Youth Alive Oscar’

– Select ‘Holiday Programme’ & click ‘Next’

– Select the programme appropriate to your child’s age & select all the days you want to book

– Click ‘Next’, ’Next’ and ’Finish’

There are 3 options for payment at the time of booking:

  1. Bank Transfer (no fee for you). Please reference ‘HP’ and ‘Your Name’
  2. Visa or Mastercard – Credit or Visa Debit (2.5%)
  3. WINZ Client. You will need to input your client number into your profile before choosing this option. As above, it will stay ‘PENDING’ for a week until we have signed the paperwork.

Upcoming Holiday Programmes

16th – 20th December 2024

13th – 17th January 2025

20th – 24th January 2025

14th – 17th April 2025

Any issues or questions about programmes, registrations or cancelations, please email us at: rego@yat.org.nz

Any finance questions, please email us at: accounts@yat.org.nz

Website Troubles

29th August 2024

From here on, a lot of our earlier posts that include embedded Facebook links are not viewable on mobile devices. We have updated our more recent posts so they are viewable.
If you are using a mobile device and would like to see a more thorough and complete compilation of our posts, please check out our Facebook Page: Youth Alive Trust

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