What we do

Māori Health

  • Providing comprehensive primary healthcare for whānau.

  • Providing Well Child Checks for new born babies up to 5 years of age.

  • Providing support for accessing primary and secondary health care services, advocating and supporting whānau with long term conditions.

  • An intensive service promoting Haputanga Programmes for expectant mothers and their whānau, routines, bonding for new born babies and whānau who are identified as 'at risk' with multiple life stressors up to 2 years of age.

  • Completed over a weekend this program is designed to cover the pre-natal, labour and postnatal periods.

 
 

Social Services

  • Supporting high risk whānau and their children across their life span with the goal of achieving wellbeing.

  • For Male offenders of family violence. (individual/group/whānau)

  • Working across all whānau with children including but not limited to grief, relationships, wellbeing, witnessing violence and self esteem.

Mental Health

  • Working across all whānau including a comprehensive assessment, counselling and treatment plan.

  • To ensure whānau become more independent to manage and improve their own mental health and wellbeing.

  • To provide a range of wrap-around supports to help whānau deal with complex life circumstances that impact on their health, wellbeing, and ability to self-manage, to improve their overall wellbeing outcomes.

  • Disability Support Services that are tailored to their individual needs and goals and take a whole life approach.

 
 

Rangatahi

  • Early intervention /prevention programme, providing intensive kaupapa Māori support for rangatahi.

  • Short intensive support, providing a flexible youth work support service in response to referrals from the Youth Justice team.

  • For the delivery of long term-healing and recovery for whānau affected by violence. Ko wai au wananga and self-development/resilience program

    For youth (up to the age of 17 years). Limited numbers

  • Mana Ake works with local school communities to enhance wellbeing outcomes for tamariki from year 1 to year 8. It provides strengths based, evidence informed wellbeing and metal health support tamariki in the context of their school, whanau, community and natural networks.

Across All

  • Supporting whānau to attain their moemoea (aspirations)

  • Māori Traditional Healing Services based on cultural and spiritual healing.

  • Te Tai Poutini Kai Puku is the West Coast’s first dedicated food rescue service.