Health

Aims: To empower consumers of health and disability services, to voice their complaints/concerns, by providing information and support that will allow resolution at the lowest level possible.

Aims: To improve health and well-being for people affected by arthritis and musculoskeletal disabilities.

Aims: To provide asthma/respiratory education to asthmatics, CORD patients and their families. To promote asthma awareness. To update staff and keep them upskilled.

Aims: We are a team of professional counsellors/educators committed to providing a quality service. Our aim is to help clients to be in charge of their change and growth.

Aims: The Cancer Society of New Zealand is committed to improving community well being by reducing the incidence and impact of cancer. Our core services are in the areas of health promotion, support, information and research. Services include support, advice and advocacy for people with cancer and their families, transport to and from treatments, support groups, workshops, education programmes, information and resources, gazebos and sun umbrellas for loan, discounted sunscreen, hats and sunglasses for sale and scholarships.

Opening hours: Monday-Friday 9am-3.30pm. The shuttle operates Monday and Friday (special arrangements can be made for travel on other days).

Aims: CEPRA (Chemically Exposed Paritutu Residents Association).
To support Paritutu residents, ex and current (as well as former workers) from the area.

Aims: The Child Cancer Foundation believes that no child suffering from cancer or their family should ever feel alone. We provide ongoing practical, emotional and financial assistance to children and their families whose lives have been changed forever by this life threatening disease. We also support the health professionals that treat children with cancer and invest in research into the late effects of the disease.

Aims: To promote health and wellness to a variety of groups in the wider community.

Aims: Encouraging local support for people affected by diabetes and pre-diabetes. Acting as an advocate and raising the awareness of diabetes. Educating and informing people about diabetes. Supporting research into the treatment, prevention and cure of diabetes.

Aims: The Ministry of Health has set up a new health service for people who lived by the former Ivon Watkins Dow factory in Paritutu, New Plymouth between 1962 and 1987 who may have been exposed to dioxin.

Aims: To provide accessible resources which will empower people with disabilities to make personal choices about their quality of life.

Aims: Provide advice, medical services and education in sexual and reproductive health.

Aims: To help those in need. Children must have full tummies and be kept warm. To provide good listening.

Aims: To encourage members to grow and to form friendships to support the elderly, the sick and hospice.

Aims: Maintain a focus on improving access to health services in the rural communities of Taranaki.

Aims: To provide confidential health services for all students and staff of the WITT campus community.

Aims: To provide support for the health and well-being of members of the community. Weekly GP service, health education and promotion.

Aims: The Health Promotion Unit delivers population based health programmes to the people of Taranaki. The issues covered by the team are injury prevention, youth health (includes sexual and mental health), nutrition and physical activity, smokefree/auahi kore, reducing alcohol related harm and health promotion in schools (including fruit in schools). The unit also houses and distributes the Ministry of Health education resources.

Aims: Provides regulatory, audit services and public advocacy services in the areas of food, communicable disease control and environmental health. The unit also deals with public aspects of civil defence.

Aims: Strive to be the leader of quality Maori healthcare service. Oranga wairua - spiritual wellness, Oranga whanau - family wellness, Oranga hinengaro - mental wellness, Oranga tinana - physical wellness. To maintain - Oranga tangata - people wellness.

Aims: To manage co-ordinate and provide quality home-based support and personal care services, to enable people to remain in their own home or community. Needs and values of individuals and all cultural groups are respected at all times.

Aims: To facilitate the best possible care for heart children and their families in Taranaki.

Aims: To educate people about heart disease and what can be done to prevent it. To assist in the rehabilitation of those with heart disease. To promote research into the causes and treatment of heart and arterial diseases.

Aims: To provide support and encouragement to all who have any form of heart disease or who have undergone cardio-thorasic surgery and their carers.

Aims: To provide a greater sense of hope for young New Zealanders.

Aims: We aim to deliver palliative care in a culturally appropriate and spiritually sensitive manner. Palliative care is the total care of patients whose disease is not curable. The goal is the best quality of life possible for the patients and their families and carers.

Aims: To reduce the numbers/severity of unintentional injuries to children in Taranaki.

Aims: Provide assistance to all people with hearing loss, tinnitus and hearing aid management. This includes a basic hearing evaluation and assessment, referral if necessary plus advice and skill enhancement.

Aims: Kaupapa Maori services that lead and empower life choices for all people.

Aims: NZPC is an organisation which promotes and advocates the rights, health and well-being of all sex-industry workers. NZPC provides a place to come for a coffee and chat as well as low cost products for workers.

Aims: To provide education and support to parents and parents-to-be. To promote the role of parenting and advocate to improve community attitudes and facilities.

Aims: Provide a free field officer service to Parkinsons sufferers, carers and families. Improve the quality of life and provide information to all concerned.

Aims: Child health and family support services.

Aims: Supports Plunket Nurse service by operating and maintaining the Plunket Clinic. Provides assistance and activities for mothers with young children.

Aims: To provide a community nursing service that improves and protects the health of children and young people in Taranaki.

Aims: To provide, where possible, clothing in an emergency situation i.e fire in home or flat.

Aims: To provide community services to the needy and general public. First aid training provider. Also medical equipment loan, Red Cross shop, meals on wheels, emergency response team.

Aims: To give disabled people confidence, independence and well-being through therapeutic horse riding and horse care.

Aims: Plunket's vision is to ensure that New Zealand children are among the healthiest in the world.

Aims: To provide an accessible, affordable, quality health service to ngati ruanui and other community groups.

Aims: To provide a free service for the diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted infections.

Aims: To provide comprehensive health social work services for individuals, groups and families in the wider Taranaki region.

Aims: Education, natural healing, self development and spiritual development.

Aims: To provide support, education and advocacy to carers/family of people suffering from major mental illness.

Aims: Tai Chi and Chi Gong classes. Martial art/relaxation.

Aims: To provide and protect the health of kaumatua. To reduce disabilities from isolation and promote a healthy lifestyle. To improve and maintain social support for kaumatua.

Aims: To provide counselling, social work, supervision, education programmes, training services, as means of achieving equity for Maori. Also others who experience barriers to employment, education, health and social well-being.

Aims: To uphold and protect the rights of unborn children and the intrinsic value of human life under God. To maintain and improve legal, social and medical safeguards. To assist and promote the well-being of parents and children both before and after birth.

Aims: Free link to finding health and social services.

Aims: To provide support and encouragement to all heart event patients, their caregivers and families. Lifestyle changes, for life time changes.