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Our Home-based Family Support programme provides personalised guidance in your own home, helping you build confidence and nuture the potential of your tamariki.

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You can self-refer through this website, by email or by calling us. You can also be referred by healthcare or education providers, legal professionals, or community workers.

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About Home-based Family Support

Our Home-based Family Support service works with parents and caregivers who want to develop and strengthen their parenting skills and confidence, so that their tamariki are able to reach their full potential.

Our social workers visit whānau in their own homes to:

  • Support child development, safety and well-being,
  • Increase confidence in parenting skills and behaviour management,
  • Increase parent’s/caregiver's understanding the needs of their tamariki,
  • Build on strengths and develop self-confidence,
  • Link parents and caregivers into community and support networks,
  • Provide advocacy and support with other organisations or services.

Alongside this, we also aim to support other areas that impact on parenting:

  • Mental or physical health,
  • Family harm, or
  • Financial stress.

We can support you with goals that you want to work on, as well as offer the Circle of Security Parenting Course one-on-one, in your home. At your place, at your pace.

Read the Home-based Family Support brochure for more info.

Home-based Family Support Brochure

Case Studies

How Home-based Family Support Transformed a Survivor's Life and Brought Hope for the Future

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Home-based Family Support FAQs

How can I receive Home-Based Family Support?

You can self-refer by completing the online form, calling us or using the contact form on the Contact Us page. You can also ask your healthcare professional or community worker to refer you directly. We have a downloadable form you can email or print out if you'd like to refer this way too.

How often does a support worker visit at home?

A Social Worker will come visit you and your whānau weekly at your own home.

How long can I work with Home-based Family Support?

Our Home-based Family Support service is a short to medium term programme (around 6 to 9 months) for parents/ caregivers with tamariki and rangatahi aged up to 18 years.

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