Parent Support

Barnardos NZ  |  FAIR Centre of Barnardos   |   IHC New Zealand Inc   |   Miscarriage Support Auckland Inc.   |    Mothers Network (NZ) Inc   |    Open Home Foundation   |   Parent to Parent New Zealand Inc  |   Parentport Warkworth Wellsford Inc.   | Plunket Society (Inc)              

Mothers Network (NZ) Inc

Telephone/Fax:   04 389 7829

Contact: Vivienne Pincott or Adrienne Houston

Email address:    info@newmother.org.nz

Web site:             www.newmother.org.nz

Mothers Network (NZ) Inc. is a National Network of enthusiastic, dedicated women working together  to provide a stimulating environment for mothers to communicate and express themselves. Motherhood can be a very isolating experience and our aim is to bring new mothers together to share these and other experiences - and kill the myths!

We offer friendly, supportive discussion groups for all mothers. The focus of these groups is on you and the experiences that being a mother brings to your life.

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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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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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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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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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Miscarriage Support Auckland Inc.

 

Postal address: PO Box 147 011, Ponsonby, Auckland

Phone: 09 378 4060

Email: info@miscarriagesupport.org.nz

Web: www.miscarriagesupport.org.nz

 

We are a non-profit organisation run by women (who have miscarried) to give peer support to others struggling with the often invalidated and minimized grief of miscarriage through our pamphlets, website, email service, bulletin board and Support line.

 

Other Links:

www.everybody.co.nz/bulletinboard.html

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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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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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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 disabilities and their families. Their services include housing, work and day programmes and family support. They can support families with young children 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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