Family Centred Services are intended to help families and aiga/whanau become safe places to be. This involves delivering culturally effective services to families and aiga/whanau, helping them access any additional professional help they may need, and assisting them to draw on the informal supports available in their wider family, wha-nau and community.

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Support Pacific families and individuals to develop skills to cope with different life situations, to reflect and promote self-healing.

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​We will discuss therapeutic interventions with you and your family, aiga potopoto or support people, and together, decide the best way forward.

 

Our intention is that:

• Family needs are met through wrap-around support which is effective, holistic, culturally appropriate and responsive

• Family become strong and resilient, and able to identify their own ways to restore safety and wellbeing/mauri ora

• Creating lasting, positive change is achieved through the support of family, aiga/whanau and the wider community

• Families experience measurable, positive change over time, and less repeat family violence the wider hapu-, iwi and community are strengthened, so they can offer effective help and do not tolerate anti-social practices and behaviours that lead to family violence.

 

Our work
Family-Centred Services include a wide range of activities and include:

• working with families and aiga/whanau to identify their issues and solutions

• strengthening family and aiga/whanau participation and connections co-ordinating wrap-around services

• taking steps to secure safety of vulnerable family and aiga/whanau members

• providing post-crisis and long-term support