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Family services

Family services and organisations that help family/whānau navigate the practical, emotional, social, and cultural impacts of disability so families feel informed, connected, and empowered to make decisions that work for them.

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Family Support Services

Below is a list of services and organisations that offer various types of support to family/whanau raising disabled children or supporting a sibling or partner with a disability.

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Enabling Love and Friendship

Enabling Love & Friendship is a New Zealand social connection and dating service for people with disabilities and those who may find relationships harder to access. It supports friendship, connection, and community through local groups and events.

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Family Services Directory

Family Services Directory is an MSD online directory of New Zealand service providers that support families and whānau, including categories such as disability, carers, health, mental health, housing, budgeting, family violence and youth services. It is designed to help people search for organisations and programmes that can support common needs and problems.

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Family Works

Family Works is the family and social services arm of Presbyterian Support Northern. It provides counselling, social work, parenting support, violence prevention, and other support services for children, young people, and whānau.

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Father and Child Support Group

Father and Child Trust was a New Zealand organisation focused on fathers, fatherhood, and whānau wellbeing. The organisation’s website states that it operated until March 2019, but its site still provides information and support resources for fathers.

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Federation of Disability Information Centres

The Federation of Disability Information Centres is the national hub for a network of disability information centres across New Zealand. It promotes and supports the local provision of impartial health and disability information and resource services.

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Firstport

Firstport is New Zealand’s disability and accessibility information website and is designed as a first point of call for disabled people, whānau, and anyone looking for disability-related information. It provides practical information about disability support, rights, funding, equipment, transport, work, education, wellbeing, accessible events and places, and related community resources in Aotearoa.

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Flying Kites

Flying Kites is a charity that redesigns disability support around the person rather than making people fit existing services. Its work is specifically focused on disability support design, transition support for disabled and neurodivergent young people, recruitment of the right support workers, shared living, moving out, and other practical next-step planning.

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Friendship House

Friendship House in Manukau is a community support organisation and resource centre focused on practical support and change offering counselling, family support, advocacy, and programmes for men, women, and whānau.

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Graeme Dingle Foundation

The Graeme Dingle Foundation is a child and youth development charity that runs programmes aimed at building confidence, resilience, purpose, and life skills for young people aged from 5-24. The programmes improve attitudes and behaviour, improve academic results, help young people set and achieve goals, boost self-confidence, reduce truancy rates and at risk behaviours such as substance abuse.

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Great Potentials

Great Potentials Foundation is a New Zealand charity working for and with children, young people and families to promote family function, relieve suffering, release potential, reduce disparities in New Zealand society, reduce crime and violence and break the cycle of disadvantage.

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