ÿþ <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/tr/html4/loose.dtd"> <html lang="en-nz"> <head> <style type="text/css"> body { font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } div.liner { margin: 0 0 5px 0; padding: 0px; clear: both; font-size: 1px; background: url(http://www.newplymouthnz.com/images/template/pg/liner-bg.gif) bottom left repeat-x; } div.itemheading { font-size:10pt; font-weight: bold; color: #666;} h2 { font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: normal; color: #6391d8; font-size: 18pt; } h3 { font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: normal; color: #6391d8; font-size: 14pt; } </style> </head> <body style="background-color:#FFFFFF;"> <div align="left" style="padding-left: 10px;"> <img src="http://www.newplymouthnz.com/images/NPDC_logo_600.gif"> </div> <div align="left" style="padding-left: 20px;"> <h2>Parent Education/Support</h2> </div> <div style="font-size: .70em; text-align: left; padding-left:30px; width: 600; "> <div class='itemheading'>Autism New Zealand, Taranaki Branch</div><p><strong>Aims:</strong> To provide support, resources and information on Autism Spectrum Disorders including Aspergers.<div><p> <strong>Contact:</strong> Judi Gopperth<br /><strong>Phone:</strong> 06-769 5958<br /><strong>Address:</strong> Communication House, 62 Powderham St, New Plymouth 4310<br /><strong>Email:</strong> <a href="mailto:Taranaki@autismnz.org.nz">Taranaki@autismnz.org.nz<br /></a><strong>Website:</strong> <a title="Opens the Autism NZ website in a new window. " href="http://www.autismnz.org.nz/" target="_blank" pathattribute="1">www.autismnz.org.nz</a></p></div></p><div class="liner">&nbsp;</div><div class='itemheading'>Barnardos New Zealand</div><p><strong>Aims:</strong> 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.<div><p> <strong>Contact:</strong> Nigel Christie<br /><strong>Phone:</strong> 06-753 3484 <br /><strong>Fax:</strong> 06-753 3485<br /><strong>Mobile:</strong> 021 595 956<br /><strong>Address: </strong>186a Tukapa St, New Plymouth<br /><strong>Postal address:</strong> PO Box 4220, New Plymouth 4340<br /><strong>Email:</strong> <a href="mailto:taranaki.amu@barnardos.org.nz">taranaki.amu@barnardos.org.nz</a><br /></p></div></p><div class="liner">&nbsp;</div><div class='itemheading'>Burn Support Charitable Trust Inc, Taranaki Branch</div><p><strong>Aims: </strong>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.<div><strong>Contact</strong>: Sue Murdoch<br /><strong>Phone</strong>: 06-758 4648<br /><strong>Mobile</strong>: 027 624 577<br /><strong>Address: </strong>33 Lyn St, New Plymouth 4310</div></p><div class="liner">&nbsp;</div><div class='itemheading'>Community Health Committee, Waverley and District</div><p><strong>Aims:</strong> To promote health and wellness to a variety of groups in the wider community.<div><p> <strong>Contact:</strong> Pam Peacock<br /><strong>Address:</strong> 4 Wilson St, Waverley 4510<br /><strong>Phone:</strong> 06 346 5071<br /><strong>Email:</strong> <a href="mailto:peahen@xtra.co.nz">peahen@xtra.co.nz</a><br /></p></div></p><div class="liner">&nbsp;</div><div class='itemheading'>Dyslexia HELP</div><p><strong>Aims:</strong> To provide dyslexia support to children and adults using the Davis Dyslexia Correction Programme.<div><strong>Contact:</strong> Raewyn Matheson<br /><strong>Phone:</strong> 06-756 8080 <br /><strong>Fax:</strong> 06-756 8080<br /><strong>Mobile:</strong> 027 411 8350<br /><strong>Postal address: </strong>2018 Mountain Rd, RD 8, Inglewood 4388<br /><strong>Email:</strong> <a href="mailto:raewyn@dyslexiahelp.co.nz">raewyn@dyslexiahelp.co.nz</a><br /><strong>Website:</strong> <a title="Opens the Dyslexia Help website in a new window. " href="http://www.dyslexiahelp.co.nz/" target="_blank" pathattribute="1">www.dyslexiahelp.co.nz</a></div></p><div class="liner">&nbsp;</div><div class='itemheading'>Gastric Reflux Support Network NZ</div><p><strong>Aims:</strong> Gastric Reflux Support Network (NZ) for Parents of Infants and Children Charitable Trust offers moral support, ideas, coping techniques and coffee and 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.<div><strong>Contact:</strong> Jennifer Howard<br /><strong>Phone:</strong> 07-855 9350 or 0800 380 517<br /><strong>Address: </strong>PO Box 4416, Hamilton East 3247<br /><strong>Email:</strong> <a href="mailto:admin@cryingoverspiltmilk.co.nz">admin@cryingoverspiltmilk.co.nz</a><br /><strong>Website:</strong> <a title="Click to open Gastric Reflux Support website in a new window. " href="http://www.cryingoverspiltmilk.co.nz" target="_blank" pathattribute="1">www.cryingoverspiltmilk.co.nz</a><br /></div></p><div class="liner">&nbsp;</div><div class='itemheading'>La Leche League, North Taranaki</div><p><strong>Aims:</strong> 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.<div><p> <strong>Contact:</strong> Connor Kelly<br /><strong>Phone:</strong> 06-758 3076 or 06-769 5661 (home)<br /><strong>Address:</strong> 23 Gilbert St, New Plymouth 4310<br /><strong>Email:</strong> <a href="mailto:steve-connor@xtra.co.nz">steve-connor@xtra.co.nz</a><br /><strong>Website:</strong> <a title="Opens the La Leche League website in a new window. " href="http://www.lalecheleague.org.nz" target="_blank" pathattribute="1">www.lalecheleague.org.nz</a></p></div></p><div class="liner">&nbsp;</div><div class='itemheading'>Parent to Parent, New Zealand</div><p><strong>Aims:</strong> Empowering parents, caregivers and whanau of children with disabilities, health impairments and special needs, through support and provision of information.<div><p> <strong>Services include:</strong> One-to-one support through trained volunteer support parents with a similar personal experience, information on more than 3600 different conditions, family activities and sibling support programmes, individual education plan seminars, support group meetings, advocacy.<br /><br /><strong>Contact:</strong> Anne Wilkinson<br /><strong>Phone:</strong> 07-853 8491 or 0508 236 236<br /><strong>Fax:</strong> 07-853 8491<br /><strong>Address:</strong> 25 Claudelands Rd, Hamilton<br /><strong>Postal address:</strong> PO Box 234, Hamilton 3240<br /><strong>Email:</strong> <a href="mailto:national@parent2parent.org.nz">national@parent2parent.org.nz</a><br /><strong>Website:</strong> <a title="Opens the Parent to Parent website in a new window. " href="http://www.parent2parent.org.nz/" target="_blank" pathattribute="1">www.parent2parent.org.nz</a></p></div></p><div class="liner">&nbsp;</div><div class='itemheading'>Parents Centre, New Plymouth</div><p><strong>Aims:</strong> New Plymouth Parents Centre is a volunteer organisation run by parents for parents since 1957.<br /><br />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.<div><p> <strong>Phone:</strong> 06-759 8244<br /><strong>Address:</strong> 52 Buller St, New Plymouth<br /><strong>Postal address:</strong> PO Box 4059, New Plymouth 4340<br /><strong>Email:</strong> <a href="mailto:new.plymouth@parentscentre.org.nz">new.plymouth@parentscentre.org.nz</a><br /><strong>Website:</strong> <a title="Opens the New Plymouth Parents Centre website in a new window. " href="http://www.parentscentre.org.nz/new-plymouth/" target="_blank" pathattribute="1">www.parentscentre.org.nz/new-plymouth/</a> </p> <br /></div></p><div class="liner">&nbsp;</div><div class='itemheading'>Parents Centre, South Taranaki</div><p><div><p> <strong>Contact:</strong> Tania Monk<br /><strong>Phone:</strong> 06-278 7782 <br /><strong>Address:</strong> 34 Fairfield Rd, Hawera<br /><strong>Postal address:</strong> PO Box 470, Hawera 4640<br /><strong>Email:</strong> <a href="mailto:sth.taranaki@parentscentre.org.nz">sth.taranaki@parentscentre.org.nz</a></p></div></p><div class="liner">&nbsp;</div><div class='itemheading'>Presbyterian Support Central, Family Works</div><p><strong>Aims:</strong> 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.<br /><br />South Taranaki contact details:<br /><strong>Hawera office<br />Phone:</strong> 06-278 6385<br /><strong>Address:</strong> 85-87 Princes St, Hawera 4610<br /><br /><strong>Stratford office<br />Fax:</strong> 06-765 0531<br /><strong>Address:</strong> 88 Celia St, Stratford 4332<br /><div><p>New Plymouth contact details:<br /><strong>Contact:</strong> Megan Jackson<br /><strong>Phone:</strong> 06-758 5037 <br /><strong>Fax:</strong> 06-759 1431<br /><strong>Mobile:</strong> 027 248 905<br /><strong>Address:</strong> 51 Buller St, New Plymouth 4312<br /><strong>Email:</strong> <a href="mailto:taranakiss@psc.org.nz">taranakiss@psc.org.nz</a><br /><strong>Website:</strong> <a title="Opens the Presbyterian Support website in a new window. " href="http://www.psc.org.nz/" target="_blank" pathattribute="1">www.psc.org.nz</a><br /></p></div></p><div class="liner">&nbsp;</div><div class='itemheading'>YMCA Inc, New Plymouth</div><p><strong>Aims:</strong> 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.<br />Licensed childcare centre and afterschool care.<div><p> <strong>Contact:</strong> Linda Cox<br /><strong>Phone:</strong> 06-758 3666 <br /><strong>Fax:</strong> 06-758 3666<br /><strong>Address:</strong> 83 Liardet St, New Plymouth<br /><strong>Postal address:</strong> PO Box 474, New Plymouth 4340<br /><strong>Email:</strong> <a href="mailto:mail@npymca.org.nz">mail@npymca.org.nz</a></p></div></p></div> </body> </html>