News Alert ! 'The Spinoff' Article
News | September 1st, 2020
Click here to read an inspiring write up by Leonie Hayden from The Spinoff news agency.
Radio New Zealand interview Upside
News | August 27th, 2020
Radio New Zealand host Jesse Mulligan spent 10 minutes with Upside CEO Dave Robertson to talk about how we have adapted to the new Covid world.
Thanks for saving camp!
News | August 2nd, 2020
In case you missed it, COVID-19 means we lost about $100,000 in funding. And so an epic mentor, Link, went on a mission to save camp!
Record numbers of mentor applications
News | July 3rd, 2020
Despite COVID-19, we've had a record number of mentor applications this year and are so excited to have our training days back up and running.
How lockdown affected the Upside community
News | June 22nd, 2020
"During a crisis like the COVID-19 outbreak, families need their immediate, basic needs, food, housing and responsive relationships met before they can focus on anything else.” Harvard University, Centre on the Developing Child
$10,000 of dental work donated, one life changed
Stories | May 7th, 2020
Andrew from Symonds Street Dental and Rachel from Eden Orthodontics generously donated free dental and orthodontic work to a young person for as long as they needed it. This came to about $10,000 worth of work!
We're building a new normal for connection
News | March 24th, 2020
As we head into social isolation as a nation, our young people and their whānau need connection more than ever.
"Many of the mentors have been with our students through some of the toughest seasons of their lives."
Evidence | March 13th, 2020
"We don't know where these young people might have been today had it not been for their relationships with their mentors who have been advocates, supporters, trustworthy confidants, listening ears, voices of wisdom and of immense care."
"At his 16th birthday party were mostly paid professionals involved in his messy childhood."
Stories | February 28th, 2020
At Josh's party was his OT social worker, a social worker from a group home he lived in, his foster mum and one other foster parent. No friends his own age.