Social Nexus is committed to doing things ‘differently’ and always remaining fluid, flexible and adaptive to how we can best support ourselves and others, meaning what we are doing and providing to others, will continue to evolve and adapt.
We have a last minute funding application we are working on currently and are URGENTLY seeking the input of other parents and caregivers, educators and community leaders in mind and would be appreciative of any and all input. We are required to create representative data of the need for projects like ours. And in true AuADHD fashion, we left it to the last minute, we have 3 days.
Our current focus is on parents, particularly mama and how we can best support them in their role and being in the world as they do the hard yards of being the first educators of our future leaders. We believe the impact of many things, such as neurodiversity, dysfunction or dysregulation, disability, trauma, burnout, solo adult households, poverty, systemic expectations and pressures etc, on top of the parenting role, can create significant mental distress for many of us. This seems to be currently overlooked and inadequately supported.
We have heaps of fun ways and resources to use as a way to connect with yourself and your whanau, to strategize through games as a collective to better navigate the demands of the world within your own household and to support and extend both yourself as the adult and the people you were tasked with helping guide & protect as they navigate the world. We want to create a workbook approach resource to make this learning, tools and magic to others in an accessible way.
Please help us achieve our dreams with this project by filling in our webform below on this page (or you can find it linked here - https://forms.gle/EdwkWJjYv3UtqBR79 ). If someone steals your attention and you can’t get more than half a thought out, we get it! Just submit it and come back to it later if you remember when you get a chance and we can sort the data from the back end, anything you can contribute is gratefully appreciated.
Also, hate to ask, but please share this with others through your own networks if you don't mind, we have three days to gather evidence of something we know there is huge need for but you know capitalism and politics and all that haha
Thank you - Jess, Kelsey & the rest of the Social Nexus crew
Thank you again for your support and tautoko, you are helping us create our own dream lives and help and support others while we do so 🙏💜 any questions, issues or if you would like to talk to us more, please email us directly at socialnexusnz@gmail.com