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Upcoming Events

Currently, there are no scheduled events by the College of Child and Youth Nurses. For other events that may interest you, please check the NZNO Events Calendar.


Past events

CCYN 2024 Annual General Meeting

Date: 12 November 2024
Time: 4:00 pm
Venue: Room H224 at Otago Polytechnic, Forth St, Dunedin

Tapuhitia Ngā Mokopuna Mō Apōpō, College of Child & Youth Nurses (CCYN) Annual Symposium 2023 

Date: Friday, 3 November 2023, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Venue: Marion Davis Library, 32 Park Road, Grafton, Auckland
Updated programme
Our 2023 biennial symposium is stacked with several amazing keynote speakers and invited presenters with abstracts to come. We are privileged to introduce our two keynote speakers:
Professor Marek Tesar, Head of School: Learning Development & Professional Practice, and Associate Dean: International at the Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Auckland. Director of Centre for Global Childhoods, Chair of Early Years, Childhood Studies and Child Development Research and Teaching Hub.
Ellyn Proffit (Ngāti Porou), Clinical Nurse Specialist Adolescent & Young Adult (AYA) Midland Cancer Network: Te Whatu Ora Waikato.
Topics this year include:

  • First 1,000 days research
  • Child development
  • Helping adolescent traverse their cancer journeys
  • Connecting children with the physical environment
  • The socio-emotional needs of the hospitalised child.....and much more.

Presentations from previous CCYN Symposiums

Presentation Author/ Presenter
Changing your perspective Alison Leversha 
Jade speaks up Elaine Dyer 
Kind hands Respite Care Cottage 
The lived experience of paediatric nurses caring for children with non-accidental head injuries  Kirsty Gibbs
Maternal infant health: innovation in education Michelle Adams 
Margaret May Blackwell Fellowship Sharon Cassidy 
Child Health & Poverty in NZ - A way forward Professor Innes Asher 
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