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MY OPUSCULE PORTFOLIO: All About Inclusion
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Passion is a fashion! Monday, 23 April 2012. Downtown Community Ministry (DCM) believes that everyone deserves to be understood. This week, we had the fantastic support of a sign language interpreter from iSign to help us. A deaf homeless person came into DCM needing urgent assistance. Despite staff spending a long time with the person, we were unable to effectively communicate. This was a problem on our behalf due to the lack of signing skills we have as an organisation. NZ Relay is a system where conve...
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MY OPUSCULE PORTFOLIO: April 2012
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Passion is a fashion! Monday, 23 April 2012. Downtown Community Ministry (DCM) works at the tough end of things. Faced with those in need, we often forget to report on the positive outcomes of our work. Kate Bell, outreach worker at DCM says, “Many of our service users have hidden talents they don’t have the opportunity to show because they don’t have the stability and security that having a place to live provides.”. City Housing has a policy where if a person has debts over a certain threshold, they mus...