Annabel Hurton

• I support a non-verbal ORS funded student in his home part time, whilst studying.
• This includes: Communicating through AAC, outings outside of the home and safety management.

• I worked predominantly with ORS, ESOL, and IWS funded students.
• This included: Students with autism (verbal and non verbal), students with disabilities, and students with behavioural needs.
• Other tasks : Supporting students with maths and literacy, supervising and monitoring behavior, Lego education and generalised classroom support.

• I co-created The ReDefine Hui, the first ever youth led two day workshop for youth with disabilities in Ōtautahi.
• This included: Promoting the event, coordinating volunteer facilitators, setting up an advisory group, creating workshops and workshop material
• Types of youth who went to the event and were in the advisory group: Youth with learning difficulties, youth with intellectual disabilities, youth with physical disabilities, youth who were profoundly deaf, youth with mental health concerns.

• Bounce is a wellness project developed by Red Cross. I created youth wellness workshops, and was their social media coordinator for six months.
• This included: A resilience campaign for students who were struggling, post-earthquake, an anti-bullying campaign and mental health advocacy

• I distributed food to struggling individuals and families in Christchurch.

• I helped to clean data for the Understanding Place project.
• This project gathered and shared resident and manawhenua stories about the residential red zone in Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand on a mapping platform, with analytical tools to help people explore each other’s material.

• My roles at 298 Youth Health was planning, preparing and delivering workshops on mental health.
• People the workshops were delivered to:
• GPs, nurses, teachers, social workers and youth workers

• I used data analysis to predict physical, social, economic and population vulnerability during an earthquake.
• This included: Ethnic disparities, economic mobility and vulnerable population needs.

• I worked with a range of Not-For-Profits to create a physical and online Youth Services Directory to increase accessibility to youth health services.
• This included: Stopping Violence Services (SVS), Te Tahi Youth, Youthline, Adventure Specialties Trust, Te Tahi Youth and The Collaborative Trust

I worked alongside a Primary School Teacher to support a year 1 class.

• This included: Preparing and implement educational activities, helping supervise in the playground, helping with maths and literacy tasks