Rangiora/ North Canterbury

Ngawi Thompson Centre
258 High Street
PO Box 665
Rangiora
Phone: (03) 313 8588
Fax: (03) 313 7424
Email: northcant@psusi.org.nz
Regional Manager: Penny Taylor

In Rangiora/North Canterbury Family Works provides:

• Counselling and Social Work
• Group Learning
• SAGES Family Mentoring
• LINK
• Counselling in the Hurunui

Click on the link to view a brochure on Comunity, Youth & Family Services
Click on the link to view a brochure on Counselling in the Hurunui

Youth and Family Support:

Our Community Youth and Family Workers offer a confidential, culturally sensitive, non-judgmental social work support service for young people and family, both immediate family and where appropriate, the wider family/network. The service is based in Rangiora at the Ngawi Thompson Centre and extends to the Oxford, Kaiapoi and Hurunui regions. Sessions may be either in your own home or at our centre.

The Counsellors offer help in areas such as family conflict, overcoming the effects of violence, relationship counselling, peer pressure, strengthening family relationships, parent/carer/child relationships, assertiveness, disability, grief and loss, safety and bullying issues, anger management and self-esteem.

Group Learning:

Courses we offer include:

• Parent/Carer Education Group is for the parents of the young people who have attended RAGE. It looks at the issues and consequences of anger in families and explores different parenting styles, the programme is based on the SKIP (Strategies for Kids, Information for Parents)principles.
• Whakatokahi / Pulling Together:To establish and consolidate a range of social skills to support positive engagement with peers and adults in different settings
• Rereke Huanui / A Different Path: To identify the emotion of anger, its connection to aggressive behaviour, and develop alternative ways of responding using personal strengths and resources.

Click on the link to view a brochure on Group Programmes for Children and Young People

L.I.N.K: Learning, Independence, Nurturing, Kinship:

A recovery-focused mental health service that provides group and/or individual support. Recovery plans are tailored to individual need, personal development and coaching is available as well as a great support network.

LINK Co-ordinator Paul Howard
phone: (03) 310 6509; Fax: (03) 313 2495
Click on the link to view a brochure on LINK Programme

SAGES Family Mentoring:

Older volunteers work alongside families to support and empower them to provide comfortably for their family and improve social connection to the community.
Click on the link to view a brochure on SAGES

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