Family services

Adult Guardianship Services Trust

Adult Guardianship Services Trust provides advocacy, supported decision making, subsitute decision making, and Guardianship Support.

Alliance Health

Are You Ok

Are You OK provides family violence information and support for people experiencing unsafe relationships and for people worried about someone else. Its site offers guidance, safety information, and a 24/7 helpline.

Asian Family Services

Nationwide professional and confidential face-to-face or telephone support for Asian families living in New Zealand. Its services include mental health and wellbeing support, counselling, and its Asian Helpline.

Barnardos

Barnardos Aotearoa is a national children’s charity providing social services, early learning, and advocacy for tamariki and whānau. It supports children and families facing tough times and works across prevention, support, and early childhood education.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of New Zealand

Big Brothers Big Sisters of New Zealand provides mentoring for young people through one-to-one, long-term relationships with carefully screened adult mentors. It operates through regional branches across the country.

Big Buddy

Big Buddy connects boys who do not have a dad in their life with carefully screened volunteer mentors. It also runs group programmes for teenage boys.

Child Matters

Child Matters works to prevent child abuse in Aotearoa by providing training, investigations, audits, policy support, and advice. It focuses on strengthening child protection practice across organisations and communities by building knowledge, strengthening partnerships, and ensuring every voice is heard.

Citizens Advice Bureau

Citizens Advice Bureau New Zealand helps people understand their rights and obligations and supports them to take action. It provides free advice, information, and local bureau support across the country.

Community Law

Community Law provides free legal help throughout New Zealand through a network of local law centres. It offers legal information, community legal education, drop-in advice, and in some cases ongoing legal help, with a focus on improving access to justice for people on low incomes and people in vulnerable situations.

Complex Care Group

Comprehensive Care

Comprehensive Care is a primary health organisation supporting GP practices and community health across the Northern Region of Aotearoa. It focuses on tools, services, and practice support aimed at improving care and health outcomes.

Counselling Services Centre

Counselling Services Centre in Papatoetoe provides crisis response and counselling support, including 24/7 sexual harm crisis response. It supports people affected by trauma, sexual harm, and family harm.

Counties Manukau Kindergartens

Counties Manukau Kindergarten Association is a not-for-profit early childhood education provider serving the Franklin and Counties Manukau areas. It operates kindergartens and early learning centres.

Dr. Emma Goodall – Simple Strategies

This resource is a practical guide for educators and support people working with autistic students. It focuses on understanding the individual learner, using clear communication, supporting sensory needs, and using simple, explicit strategies to improve engagement and school success.

Empowerment Trust

Empowerment Trust is a New Zealand organisation providing trauma-informed, culturally aware, evidence-based primary prevention education. It delivers workshops, training and resources that help people build safety skills, healthy relationships, consent and boundary awareness, de-escalation skills, and violence prevention strategies, and it is the New Zealand centre of Kidpower International.

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.

Family Service Centres

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.

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.