“My role as the Community Led Development worker is to be the voice of the community to the Randwick Park Collective. I am here to communicate your hopes and dreams and work towards achieving them with you. I look forward to working with the community at many levels, be it at the individual, family/whanau or group level. I look forward to getting to know as many people as I can and building great relationships. Together, we will capture your goals and dreams for Randwick into a Community Plan. I hope to be successful in rolling out the goals in order to have a safe, healthy, and flourishing community for us all, of which we a proud to be a part of. It is really important that we do this in a sustainable way while maintaining our autonomy at the same time.” |
| Randwick Park’s own Community-led Developer Worker |
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| Kia ora and Talofa lava, I am Jessica Gosche and I am the new Community Led Development worker for Randwick Park. Before I tell you about my role and my what I hope to achieve in this awesome community I’d like to tell you a little about myself.
I am of Samoan, German, English and Scottish descent. I was born and raised in Otahuhu by two amazing parents with my brothers. I am now a mother of two beautiful children myself, my son Max is five and my daughter Maia is two. I have lived and worked in Auckland most of my life working in many different fields including retail, hospitality, administration, youth work, and social work. In 2009 I moved to Hamilton as I returned to University as an adult student to study Psychology and Human Development. I completed my Masters degree in Applied Psychology (Community) in 2017. After graduating I returned to the workforce where I worked at the Waikato DHB in Health Promotion. That was until I discovered the Community Led Development worker role and just could not pass up the opportunity to apply to work with a community who have already achieved so much yet still aspires to achieve even more! My family and I are currently making the move back Auckland (although I have already started this journey in September). I’m really excited to be coming home! My role as the Community Led Development worker is to be the voice of the community to the Randwick Park Collective. I am here to communicate your hopes and dreams and work towards achieving them with you. I look forward to working with the community at many levels, be it at the individual, family/whanau or group level. I look forward to getting to know as many people as I can and building great relationships. Together, we will capture your goals and dreams for Randwick into a Community Plan. I hope to be successful in rolling out the goals in order to have a safe, healthy, and flourishing community for us all, of which we a proud to be a part of. It is really important that we do this in a sustainable way while maintaining our autonomy at the same time. In the time that I have been in Randwick Park I have been blown away at what has been accomplished already – what a dynamic group of community champions! Manu Tukutuku is such an awesome community hub with a mean skate park, and a stunning community centre with beautiful grounds to walk in. I loved the Maker’s Market and the beautiful things that were being made and sold by talented Randwick locals. Everyone I have met so far are so dedicated to the Randwick and the community, they go above and beyond in so many ways and I feel privileged to have been so warmly welcomed into a dynamic community and I really look forward to chasing our hopes and dreams together Ia manuia le aso, nga mihi |