Ngätahi is a three-year project aiming to identify and embed the additional competencies needed for the children’s workforce to work with families experiencing intimate partner violence, child abuse and neglect, mental illness, addictions, poverty and poor supports. Mäori tamariki (children) and whänau are over-represented in this client group. Collective impact, appreciative inquiry and a robust tikanga inform the project. A formal Treaty of Waitangi partnership with the local iwi, Ngäti Kahungunu, provides cultural leadership at all levels of the project. Twenty-seven agencies or services representing 441 practitioners have engaged in the project in Hawke’s Bay. The three priorities for competency development identified are: engaging effectively with Mäori (EEWM), mental health and addictions (MHA) and trauma-informed practice (TIP). Within the TIP work stream, addressing practitioners’ burnout, fatigue and vicarious trauma is the first priority. The three work streams are currently developing curricula and identifying leaders to deliver training locally, and delivering activities to embed the new competencies into practice and metrics to demonstrate the impact of the new competencies on practice and on outcomes. Qualitative interviews demonstrate high commitment from the workforce and its leaders, consistent priorities for development of additional competencies and important lessons learnt. We suggest that this model may be helpful for policymakers considering other collaborative activities to address ‘wicked’ or complex problems, and offer some lessons learnt to date.
Arrays of open ended rectangul-ar waveguides in metallic cylindrical surfaces are considered. An analysis which uses mode matching at the cylinder surface to derive inter-element coupling coefficients is described, and some results are presented.The analysis is then extended to obtain expressions for the radiated far field in terms of the aperture distribution in the elements. Element patterns are presented, and compared with a measured result from an experimental cylindrical array; good agreement is seen.The computed far field pattern for a more practical array is presented, and various features of the pattern are discussed. ANALYSIS OF APERTURE FIELI)SIn order to find the fields on the surface of a circular cylinder, our first requirement is to find expressions for the fields in free space external to the cylinder. To do this it is necessary to solve the scalar Helmholtz equation:-where v2 is the Laplacian operator, k0,is the free space wave number and § is the required scalaE potential.For our purposes, it is most convenient to express V in cylindrical polar coordinates (r, 0, z), when (1) may be solved in a similar manner to that of Harrington [1] The result appropriate to our case, which has only outward travelling waves, is:-g(r, 0, z) = H2 r(krr) exp (j(vo + kzz))(2) where kr2 + k = k2 and v is arbitrary. is the Hankel function of the second kind, of order r.
Breast cancer affects one in 8 females with a 5-year survival rate of 89%. Up to 72% of breast cancer survivors have trouble with activities of daily living (ADL) following treatment. Increased time-from-treatment improves some measures of function, yet ADL limitations persist. Therefore, this study assessed the effect of time-from-treatment on upper extremity kinematics during ADLs in breast cancer survivors. Twenty-nine female breast cancer survivors were divided into 2 groups: <1 year (n = 12) and 1–2 years (n = 17) from treatment. Kinematics were collected during 6 ADL tasks, and humerothoracic joint angles were quantified. A 2-way mixed analysis of variance assessed the effects of time-from-treatment and arm on maximum angles for each ADL. Decreased maximum angle existed for breast cancer survivors with increased time-from-treatment during all ADLs. Breast cancer survivors in the 1–2 years group used ∼28° to 32° lower elevation, ∼14° to 28° lower axial rotation, and ∼10° to 14° lower plane of elevation range across tasks. Decreased ranges of arm movement during ADLs with increased time-from-treatment may reflect compensatory movement strategies. Recognizing this shift in strategies and accompanying underlying disease progression can help inform responses to functional performance limitations in breast cancer survivors as delayed effects are present posttreatment.
The New Zealand public spoke and the pollsters listened: child poverty consistently ranks among the top concerns of New Zealanders (Levine, 2014). And the prime minister listened too. In September 2014, after securing a healthy election victory, he proclaimed that he was going to step in and tackle child poverty (Fox, 2014). The policy analysts in a range of government agencies were set a task: come up with a package for Budget 2015 that helps children in poverty, that doesn’t cost too much and that won’t reduce the incentive to work. This article will demonstrate that the policy analysts did the best they could with the brief they were given.
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