Family Support 

Index:    Barnardos

     FAIR Centre of Barnardos

               IHC New Zealand

               Open Home Foundation

               Parent to Parent

               Parentport Warkworth/Wellsford

               Plunket 

 

Open Home Foundation

 

Contact person:   Anne Warren

Postal address:     PO Box 13 088, Onehunga, Auckland

Phone number:     09 634 2057

Fax number:         09 634 2056

Email address:    ohfauckland@xtra.co.nz

 

The Open Home Foundation is a Christian Child and Family Support Service. Our team of trained staff focus on keeping families together by providing practical help. 

 

We do this through social work, foster caring, family and individual counselling, youth services and parenting education. These services are about care, protection and empowerment for change. Each service is important, each builds on the other.

 

Together, they seek to establish the love and security that a child needs.

 

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Plunket Society (Inc)

Head Office

Postal address:       PO Box 5474, Wellington

Phone:                     04 474 1568

Plunketline             0800 933 922

Email address:        plunket@plunket.org.nz

Web site:                 www.plunket.org.nz    

Plunket specialise in children aged from 0 to 5 years old. If you are not aware of Plunket check out your local telephone directory for contact details or check out their web site. This site comes highly recommended.

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Parentport Warkworth Wellsford Inc.

Address:                 5 Baxter Street, Warkworth.

Phone:                    09 425 9357 or 025 280 5093

Coordinators:         Britta Conrad and Susan Mitchell

Email address:       Not currently available

Web site:                Not currently available    

Parentport gives free help to families who have at least one preschool child and/or where the mother is pregnant. If there is any situation of stress, illness or simply exhaustion, a parentport worker can help with housework and childcare for a couple of hours once or twice a week, for up to three weeks if needed. 

We visit families from Puhoi to Te Hana (and coast to coast).

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Parent to Parent New Zealand Inc

Postal address: PO Box 234, Waikato Mail Centre, HAMILTON.

Email: p2pnational@compuserve.com

Web Site: www.parent2parent.org.nz

Toll-free Line: 0508.236.236

Caring for a family member who has a special need is an experience that few parents anticipate or plan for, and one that can bring strong emotional responses and challenges in day to day living.

For thousands of NZ families the struggle to meet these challenges is a reality. Often families have to face them without adequate information or support leaving them feeling isolated and overwhelmed.

By contacting Parent to Parent on 0508.236.236 families can access written information relating to their child’s condition, and receive emotional support through talking with a trained Support Parent who knows and understands from personal experience the challenges, frustrations, and special joy that comes from parenting a child with special needs.

There are more than 3000 different conditions ranging from the very common through to the rarest conditions. The service is free.

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Barnardos NZ

Postal address: National Office, PO Box 6434, Wellington.

Phone: 04 385 7560

Email: webmaster@barnardos.org.nz

Web: www.barnardos.org.nz/SupportServices/index.asp

 

Barnardos works within the community to provide a range of care, education and support services for children and their families. As a not-for-profit organisation Barnardos is dedicated to ensuring all New Zealand children and families have access to services which are appropriate to their needs.

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IHC New Zealand Inc.

 

Postal address: PO Box 4155, Wellington

Phone: 04 472 2247

Email: webmaster@ihc.org.nz

Web: www.ihc.org.nz

 

IHC supports people with intellectual disablities and their families. Their services include housing, work and day programmes and family support. They can support families with young chiuldren through home support, where someone comes to the home on a regular basis; shared care, where the child spends time with another family, and respite care, where the child spends a night or two in an IHC house.

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FAIR Centre of Barnardos

 

Postal address: PO Box 6434, Wellington

Freephone: 0800 222 345

Email: fair.centre@barnardos.org.nz

Web: www.faircentre.org.nz

 

This service provides impartial information via phone and printed material for families/whanau and professionals working with them about financial entitlements, their rights and how to stand up for them, and local services that can assist them.

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