PACIFIC PROVIDER SNAPSHOT
Vaka Tautua
Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury Regions Vaka Tautua is a charitable organisation established in 2007 that aims to help improve the health and wellbeing of Pacific people in New Zealand. They provide community support for older peoples, people living with disability and those needing support for mental health.
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Pacific Trust Canterbury
Canterbury Region
Pacific Trust Canterbury was established in the 1990’s and is based in central Christchurch. It is the largest provider of Pacific health and social services in the South Island and all services are delivered with Pacific values. Its mission is to enable Pacific and all communities to reach their full potential through the provision of quality services.
Their programmes encourage families and communities to respect, promote and safeguard the rights of their service users within the health and disability sector. They also provide services like financial literacy, disability support, mental health community support and peer support, Like Minds Like Mine, older persons support and a family wellbeing programme.
Services include a social work services and supporting families who have experienced family violence, mental health and addiction, Whanau Ora services, community development services, a Pacific health clinic, community primary health including Well Child and health promotion, and an earthquake support coordination service.
PACIFIC PROVIDER SNAPSHOT
PACIFIC PROVIDER SNAPSHOT
Pacific Health Service Hutt Valley
Dove Hawkes Bay Kainga Pasifika
Wellington Region
Hawkes Bay Region
Pacific Health Services Hutt Valley is an independent Pacific Health Service provider whose vision is to lead the development of a healthy Pacific community in the Hutt Valley. The service employs registered nurses, a social worker, health family coach, community wellbeing and liaison worker, well-being/fitness instructor and administration support.
Doves Hawkes Bay is a social service organisation specialising in family violence in an intervention and prevention role. It provides services to men, women and young people experiencing family violence with an emphasis on services for men.
It provides a Tamariki Ora Well Child Service, community based outreach primary nursing, healthy lifestyle Pasefika programme, family against obesity project, family support and social services.
Kainga Pasifika is the Pacific arm to Dove Hawkes Bay, and provides programmes/tools for individuals, families and communities to create more loving, respectful, family violence free homes. They also provide long and short term programmes that can be presented in English or in most Pacific languages.
PACIFIC PROVIDER SNAPSHOT
Tongan Health Society Auckland Region and Kingdom of Tonga Tongan Health Society (THS) is the first and only ethnic-specific Tongan organisation in New Zealand in the primary health care service space. THS provides social support services to Tongan families who have experienced family violence. This support entails one on one support over a period of time and is delivered across the Auckland region. Other services include an early childhood centre in Manurewa, a community centre and garden in Onehunga, and an Integrated Service Outcomes Unit focused on clinical and non-clinical navigation services to achieve health and wellbeing outcomes for community. THS is a RNZCGP teaching practice for GP registrars, and they run two medical centres in Onehunga and Panmure. A Tongan outreach project is delivered in the Kingdom of Tonga, and has close links with Tonga through their HVAZ programme. They also contract with 14 Tongan Churches in the Auckland DHB area.
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