SOCIAL SERVICES

TOA - Te Roopu Āwhina Social Services

We work with whānau across Porirua providing social service support. Our services focus on individuals, whānau and hapori wellbeing and are delivered by working closely with a range of providers and Government agencies.

Our services include:

· Whānau Ora

· Pataka Kai Services

· Tiaki Services

· Whānau Whanake

· Budgeting

· Home Based Support

· Whānau Violence Prevention Education

· Whānau Resilience

· Te Kete Aronui

· Care Services

· Matua Whangai

· Youth Development

· Social Workers in Schools (SWIS)

· Iwi Social Workers

  • Whānau Ora

    Whānau Ora

    As part of the Whānau Ora collective, we provide services to improve the health and wellbeing of whānau Māori including navigation support, advocacy and wrap-around services.

    Access to this service can be made by referral.

    To make a referral click the email below

    Referral Form

  • Social Workers in School (SWIS)

    Social workers in school is a school based program that provides support to our tamariki. They work directly with schools, tamariki and their whānau.

    They provide advocacy, mental health intervention, crisis management, and support services. For more information about this service email us below.

    Referral Form

  • Pātaka Kai

    Pātaka Kai provides resource - mainly kai boxes to the community.

    If you or your whānau require assistance with kai. Please get in touch by clicking the email below.

    Referral Form

  • Tuakana

    Tukana is a support program for rangatahi aged between 12-16 years. The service supports rangatahi with the development of plans and goals that will support the rangatahi to make informed decisions.

    Community and Self-referrals are accepted.

    Referral Form

  • Transition to Adulthood/ Youth Mentoring

    The transition to adulthood service is designed to help rangatahi who leave care and custody every year.

    The service works collaboratively across agencies to advocate for rangatahi.

    For more information contact us down below

    Email us

  • Counselling

    This service provides counselling for whanau who have experienced past and/or present challenges that have impacted on the wellbeing of your whānau or self.

    Community referrals are welcome.

    Referral Form

  • Whānau Resilience

    This service provides enabling tools and strategies to deal with day-to-day challenges that may impact the whanau emotionally or physically.

    Referrals can be accepted from the community or a self-referral.

    To make a referral email us here

    Referral Form

  • Violence Prevention Education

    This service works with whānau to look at strategies and interventions, for whānau wanting to understand the dynamics of violence, power and control and self-control in this area.

    Community referrals are welcome.

    To make referral, click the email below.

    Referral Form

More about the programmes delivered under our Social Services

  • Whānau Whanake is a partnership of Iwi and māori Whānau Ora Providers who work collectively to deliver whānau-centred services based on a kaupapa Māori worldview. Our rohe, Te Upoko o te Ika, stretches from Kapiti, Porirua through to Wellington and the Hutt Valley. Our collective came together with a shared understanding that a joined-up collective Whānau Ora approach would provide the best support and help for whānau to realise their dreams and aspirations.

  • We facilitate Family group conferences in conjunction with Oranga Tamariki. At a care and protection family group conference, te tamaiti or rangatahi and their whānau or family come together to create their own solutions for the safety and wellbeing concerns, with support from Oranga Tamariki.

  • Te Pae Oranga is an Iwi Justice panel partnership between Wellington District Police and Ngāti Toa & Te Ātiawa.

    Te Pae Oranga Iwi Community Panels are a way Police, Iwi, and communities:

    • help people in trouble to get their lives back on track.

    • do right by people harmed by crime.

    • hold people accountable while offering a pathway away from the criminal justice system.

    • provide a unique and authentic process coordinated and led by Iwi.

    As well as looking at what happened when someone has offended, Te Pae Oranga looks at the reasons why, and what’s going on in people’s lives. That way, the panel can connect them to the right kind of services and support. Participants’ plans can include actions such as:

    • getting support to quit drugs and alcohol

    • getting a driver licence, a job or training

    • doing an anger management course

    • paying for damage (reparation)

    • hearing how victims were affected and apologising to them.

  • Te Whare Whakaruruhau o Raumanuka is a service for tane Māori who have been released from corrections facilities or are serving community-based sentences.

    The aim of the service is to provide a safe environment that will tautoko, awhi and manaaki tane in their journey of reconnection with their whānau and our community.

  • Our Iwi Led teamwork in partnership with Oranga Tamariki for the care, safety, well-being of tamariki and rangatahi, also providing support for their whānau. We have a Kaupapa māori team of Iwi Led Family Group Conference Coordinators, Iwi Led Social Workers and Kairangahau.

    We work alongside Oranga Tamariki when there has been a report of concern. Whānau are supported throughout the care and protection and/or Youth Justice process to become resilient and independent.