Home & Family - Te Whare Manaaki Tangata
Nā te raranga te kete tuatinitini e waihanga hei tiaki i ngā taonga e kawea
“Through weaving many strands a basket is formed to protect what's within”
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Contact us
Toro mai / Visit us
56 Barrington Street, Somerfield, Christchurch 8024
Īmēra mai / Email us
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Our Child and Adolescent Wellbeing team are dedicated to mitigating the impact of family violence, trauma, grief, physical or social neglect, abuse, gender identification, and bullying on children and youth.
We understand that children and young people require tailored support based on their age and developmental stage to heal. In our safe and nurturing environment, children and youth can freely express themselves and find solutions to their challenges.
By fostering improved communication between parents and children, we drive sustainable change within entire family units. Our mission is to empower children and youth to overcome adversity and thrive in the face of adversity.
Our teamwork with children in need of therapeutic support due to experiencing behaviours that have become difficult for them to manage. This could be due to trauma, or significant changes which have stopped them enjoying important aspects of their family/social life.
Through rigorous assessment and a combination of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Psychology, education and other interventions, we are able to support and address these issues and help children and their families heal.
Our Te Hononga youth mentoring programme aims to improve the safety, well-being and health (both mental and physical) of our tamariki and rangatahi who experience, or use, violence within their home context. For those who live with inter-generational complexity, the goal is to break the cycle of family harm, keep tamariki and rangatahi engaged in education, and build self-belief and resilience to strengthen their long-term outcomes.
We currently have one, female kaiārahi offering one-on-one mentoring over 12 weeks. If you would like to make a referral, please click below:
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Kōmanawa supports parents, caregivers and whānau to develop healthy, secure relationships with their children.
Home & Family is committed to providing the tools to parent safely and successfully.
“With the help of Home & Family, we were able to prove that we were a good family…Home & Family has given us so much… not just their time, but their knowledge and their care…”
Home & Family is delighted to be launching SafeCare in Aotearoa!
SafeCare is a brief, evidence-based, early intervention training programme for parents and caregivers of tamariki ages 0-5.
SafeCare uses a skill-based curriculum that builds on the knowledge, experience and existing strengths of a parent/caregiver. Through initial baseline assessments, we are able to identify a parent’s initial skill set and use this information to inform how to deliver the training in remaining sessions.
SafeCare is delivered over 18 sessions that cover 3 modules:
Parent-Infant/Child Interaction that targets risk factors associated with neglect and physical abuse
Health that targets risk factors for medical neglect
Home Safety that targets risk factors for environmental neglect and unintentional injury
For further information about the SafeCare model, please visit the National SafeCare Training and Research Center at Georgia State University website:
SafeCare – National SafeCare Training and Research Center (gsu.edu)
For further information about SafeCare at Home & Family, please email us at:
Our Kōmanawa team offers an Intentional Parenting service
This programme is offered over a 6-to-8-week period, tailored to parents and caregivers with children aged five and above, including pre-teens and teenagers. It benefits families facing challenges such as conflict in the home, children with behavioural issues, and parents with shared custody.
Intentional Parenting assists parents in setting goals to enhance their understanding of child development and expectations. It explores the impact of parental behaviours, choices, and characteristics on the child and their behaviour. By fostering introspection, this program supports clients in analysing and implementing strategies to get the best response from their children.
Through the programme, parents gain valuable skills in effective communication and implementing age-appropriate parenting strategies. They learn strategies that align with their child’s developmental stage, fostering a positive parent-child relationship. The programme encourages parents to make informed choices and empowers them to create safer home environments for their children.
https://www.homeandfamily.net.nz/referral-for-parenting-programme/
Supervised Contact at Home & Family
Our centre-based, home-like setting allows tamariki to re-establish or maintain contact with a parent/caregiver.
A friendly, trained kaimahi will work alongside whānau, and all sessions are overseen by registered social workers
Suitable for tamariki of all ages
Suitable for multiple tamariki if necessary
Whānau will have a large, private & secure space for sessions, including a kitchen and outdoor play area
Toys & games for all ages available for use
Equitable space for all whānau
We accept self-referrals as well as referrals from the Family Court & Oranga Tamariki. If you have any queries or would like to make a referral, please get in touch:contact@homeandfamily.net.nz
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Integrated Safety Response (ISR)
Our Whānau Safety team work in the Integrated Safety Response (ISR) coordinated by Christchurch Police, responding to family violence police callouts involving tamariki and rangatahi.
It is a multi-agency intervention designed to ensure the immediate safety of victims and children, and to work with perpetrators to prevent further violence.
ISR takes a whole-whānau approach that puts the risk and needs of whānau at the centre of their work.
The need for family-focused, holistic, evidence-based services such as ours in Canterbury is well documented. The significant events of the Christchurch earthquakes in 2011 and the March 15th terror attacks of 2019 have had a lasting effect on our children’s lives.
Research by the University of Canterbury in 2017 found that 80% of Christchurch primary school children exhibit at least some symptoms of PTSD; this is a marked difference from the rest of the country and can reduce children’s readiness to learn. While this is linked to the earthquakes and subsequent anxiety and instability which surrounded most Christchurch children’s early lives, these problems are exacerbated in children in the East of Christchurch. Statistics show that among this group of children and youth, 43 per cent suffer from low self-esteem, 28 per cent have self-harmed, 36 per cent suffer from high anxiety or depression, and 36 per cent felt no sense of belonging.
In our more than 120 years of operation, we have consistently adapted to meet the needs of our community, meaning our services play a unique, essential and relevant part in protecting childhoods and creating stronger families and communities.
Did you know?
295000 children in Aotearoa live beneath the poverty line
On average, 15 children a day in New Zealand are placed in care
Police in Canterbury receive a domestic violence call out every four minutes
Nearly half the people living in women’s refuges in Aotearoa are children
New Zealand has the highest youth suicide rate in the developed world
In 2017, 80% of primary school-aged children in Christchurch displayed symptoms of PTSD
Children with a parent in prison are five times more likely than their peers to commit crimes
