Family Start
ATWC’s Family Start Programme is an early intervention, home visiting service that focuses on vulnerable whānau in Tāmaki Makaurau. Family Start areas that ATWC cover in Tāmaki Makaurau are, Otāhuhu, Auckland Central, Tāmaki, Glen Innes, Avondale, Sunnynook, Mairangi Bay and Forest Hill.
The programme supports families who are living with challenges or problems that put health, education and social outcomes for their children at risk. Our Social Workers work alongside parents and empower them to work through these challenges.
Whānau Support
This includes the following:
- Granger Grove - an intensive, family programme which works with mothers to make a fresh start in a secure, therapeutic and supportive environment.
- St. Mary's Preschool - a special preschool supporting tamariki from Granger Grove, staff and community.
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Community Support
This includes the following:
- Whānau Resilience - working alongside whānau who have experienced family harm and violence to support long term healing.
- Building Financial Capability (BFC) - a financial mentoring service based in Manurewa supporting whānau in financial hardship.
- Family Harm Coordinator - working closely with New Zealand Police and the multiagency response to family violence in the Counties Manukau area.
- Mellow Parenting Programmes - Mellow Parenting, Mellow Bumps, Mellow Dads
- Counselling and Child Psychotherapy
- Donations