Kia Puāwai

The Specialist Care Programme (SCP) provides one-to-one foster care for young people with the opportunity to live in a family/whānau setting with specialist caregivers supported by intensive clinical and social work services. 

This is a national contract operating in Auckland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Hawkes Bay and Northland.

The Lighthouse provides two intensely supervised non-secure group homes in Auckland - one for males and one for females. This is a short-term five-day alternative to police secure facilities or unplanned, inappropriate placements. During the rangatahi’s stay, the emphasis is on engagement, settlement and successful longer-term placement.

Te Whare Tūmanako O Kia Puāwai provides family-style care for 6-12 months when whānau is no longer an option at the time of referral. 

The service is for males aged 7-16 with conduct problems who are at risk. We focus on re-engaging young people in education, connecting with whānau/family, and building confidence, while developing pro-social skills to support them to successfully transition into adulthood and reach their goals.

The service operates in Tāmaki Makaurau.

Provide short to medium term respite and planned foster care for children and youth at risk who require out of home whānau placements. Respite Care and Planned Respite Care aim to reduce harm caused by in-patient admissions and to support the preservation of natural families/whānau. 

This service operates in Waikato and Tauranga.

Youth Service West works with young people and young parents to find the best options for education, training or work-based learning that will help them build their skills and find suitable employment. 

We work alongside young people, as their personal advisors, giving them the support they need to achieve qualifications (including NCEA Level 2), and support them towards achieving financial independence. 

Ka Awatea, meaning ‘The Dawning of a New Era’, provides support to rangatahi as they transition from state care to adulthood.

Each young person is allocated a Kai Atawhai (Personal Advisor) who can work with the young person over several years and model positive social behaviour and empower the young person to make their own informed decisions about employment, training, accommodation and developing positive social peer groups.

Ideally, planning starts with the Kai Atawhai engaging the young person from the age of 15. When the young person turns 17 prior to discharge from the care of Oranga Tamariki, a planning meeting is held to determine what happens next. Following this meeting Ka Awatea may become the lead agency in supporting the young person to live more independently and safely in the community through to the age of 21.

This service operates in Tāmaki Makaurau. Find out more about Ka Awatea on our site.

Functional Family Therapy (FFT) works with whānau facing significant challenges and is built on a foundation of acceptance and respect. It aims to help whānau collectively understand their interactions and behaviour to improve communication and conflict-management skills, and address risks while strengthening protective factors. 

FFT practitioners provide a family intervention of approximately 3-6 months, typically for one hour per week, with young people and their family/whānau. These young people and their family/whānau have been identified as needing family therapy for conduct problems or other behavioural or mental health concerns by Oranga Tamariki. In the Bay of Plenty and Waikato regions, FFT can also be accessed via the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS).

This evidence-based therapeutic intervention is delivered in the home environment. 

This service operates in Northland, Auckland, Waikato, Taranaki, Rotorua, Taupo, Bay of Plenty, Whanganui, Palmerston North, Napier, and the Lower South Island. 

Find out more about FFT, including how to refer, here.

A short-term (average of five months) intensive strengths-based programme for whānau in Tamaki Makaurau. MST helps whānau understand the multiple causes of challenging and high-risk rangatahi behaviours and address these risk factors by working with the systems around the rangatahi in order to help whānau stay safely together.

This is a crisis responsive service that operates 24/7.

Visit our site to find out more about MST and how to refer.

Intensive Clinical Services (ICS) utilises Functional Family Therapy (FFT) and interventions such as Triple P for younger children (Bay of Plenty only), to work with young people and their whānau who have been identified as needing family therapy for conduct problems or other behavioural or mental health concerns by the local Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS).

This service operates in Waikato and the Bay of Plenty.

First Care is a primary mental health early intervention for tamariki, rangatahi and their whānau. It incorporates Incredible Years, Triple P (2 levels), and trauma-informed Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) as options to meet individual needs. The intervention supports parents and whānau and aims to keep tamariki living safely at home with whānau.

• Incredible Years is a service in which parents and tamariki learn strategies with and from other parents in a group. Through First Care, we offer this service, on a case by case basis, at the whānau home in order to reach out to families for whom group attendance is challenging.
  Who is it for?
  Families with children aged 2-12

• Triple P (Positive Parenting Programme) offers clear and simple strategies to turn problems around and to prevent new problems from developing.
  Who is it for?
  Whānau with tamariki/rangatahi aged 0-16 years.
  
  
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a trauma-informed individual intervention.
  Who is it for?
  Tamariki and rangatahi referred by Gateway health and education assessments via Oranga Tamariki.

This service operates in Auckland, Capital Coast, Hutt Valley, Wairarapa, and Bay of Plenty.

Find out about our First Care services here.

The Pae Whakatupuranga FFT-CG team supports whānau to reduce their involvement with the New Zealand justice system. It’s designed for tamariki and rangatahi aged 10-24 years and their whānau. Our highly trained practitioners meet with whānau in their homes or other convenient locations and work with them to:

• Reduce the risk of intergenerational involvement in the justice system.
• Strengthen whānau relationships.
• Improve the way family members interact and communicate with each other.
• Improve whānau wellbeing by reducing aggression and conflict in the home.
• Help rangatahi stay in the home or transition successfully to independent living.
• Help tamariki/rangatahi either stay in or return to school, training or employment.