Parent Education/Support

Aims: To provide support, resources and information on Autism Spectrum Disorders including Aspergers.

Aims: Working within the community to help children receive the care, education and support they need to grow and reach their potential. They need the best start in life.

Aims: To provide burn injured persons and their families with support and assistance during and after hospitalisation and to help them to return to normal and satisfactory lives within their community.

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

Aims: To provide dyslexia support to children and adults using the Davis Dyslexia Correction Programme.

Aims: Gastric Reflux Support Network (NZ) for Parents of Infants and Children Charitable Trust offers moral support, ideas, coping techniques and coffee/support groups. We hand back confidence to parents and guardians highlighting the great work they do at home and giving them further skills to cope with gastric reflux and the effects it has on their families and lives.

Aims: To offer mother-mother support, encouragement and up-to-date information to women who seek help to breastfeed. Our service also provides information to professional health providers to assist and complement the community's Health Service and Health Promotions Unit.

Aims: Empowering parents, caregivers and whanau of children with disabilities, health impairments and special needs, through support and provision of information.

Aims: New Plymouth Parents Centre is a volunteer organisation run by parents for parents since 1957.
We are part of a national organisation and are one of over 50 parent centres nationwide who offer our members childbirth education, parent support and education, playgroups and advocacy/lobbying for parenting, birthing and families.

Aims: A large variety of curriculum (Te Whariki), activities are provided for 3-5year olds, by trained, registered teachers, encouraging children to learn through play.

Aims: To provide a range of services accepting of all people, which enables individuals, families and communities in New Zealand to help themselves. To be ethnically and culturally sensitive, in accordance with the principles of social justice and the Treaty of Waitangi.

South Taranaki contact details:
Hawera office
Phone: 06-278 6385
Fax: 06-278 6385
Address: 85-87 Princes St, Hawera 4610

Stratford office
Fax: 06-765 0531
Address: 88 Celia St, Stratford 4332

Aims: A community organisation based on Christian principles which aims to enable individuals and families to develop physically, mentally and spiritually and enjoy a healthy quality of life.
Licensed childcare centre and afterschool care.