Community Health and Social Services in Southland
Advocacy services can support you or work on your behalf when you are accessing health or social services. This can include listening to your concerns, talking through options with you and coming with you to appointments.
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Advance Care Planning
Advance care planning helps you, the important people in your life and your health care team plan for your end-of-life care.
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Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) - Invercargill
Free and confidential advice, information, and advocacy for services in the Southland region
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Alzheimers New Zealand
A dementia friendly New Zealand, Aotearoa, he aro nui ki te hunga mate wareware
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Disabilities Resource Centre Southland
Disabilities Resource Centre Southland provides disability information and advisory services for the Southland region.
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Te Kupenga Whakaoti Mahi Patunga / National Network of Family Violence Services
We provide support to family violence prevention and intervention services - we do NOT provide services and programmes directly to clients but can refer people
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Kia Haumaru - Personal Safety Education
A network of trained and accredited Personal Safety Educators providing women, girls and persons of marginalised genders with the skills and strategies to keep safe.
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Cancer Society Otago and Southland
Working to improve community well-being by reducing the incidence and impact of cancer - any cancer, any question.
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Otautau and Districts Community Charitable Trust
Provision of integrated family support services for older persons, parents, and children through a one-stop shop
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Carers New Zealand
Carers NZ is a national not-for-profit organisation providing information, advice, learning and support for older people, families with health and disability needs, individuals managing their
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Age Concern Southland Inc
We support older kiwis to have a healthy lifestyle, full of opportunities and protection from harm.
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Complex Chronic Illness Support
Supporting people impacted by Complex Chronic Illness - empowering people towards wellness.
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Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Trust NZ
GRG provides caregiver support, information, education and advocacy services to full-time grandparents or whanau caregivers throughout New Zealand
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The Meningitis Foundation Aotearoa NZ
Our aim is to prevent meningitis by ensuring families have accurate information, early diagnosis and quick treatment
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Arthritis New Zealand
Arthritis New Zealand aims to improve the life of every person affected by arthritis.
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Epilepsy Association of New Zealand
Information and support – for people who have epilepsy and their families/whānau.
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Jubilee Budget Advisory Service
Budgeting advice and education, to empower those to be good stewards with their own finances
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Gore Counselling Centre
Providing general counselling, crisis sexual and family violence abuse counselling, and Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) services to Gore and surrounding communities in Eastern Southland
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Pacific Island Advisory & Charitable Trust (PIACT)
Support the health, educational, social and cultural needs of persons of Pacific descent now resident in Southland
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Te Whare Hou Invercargill Women's Refuge
At Invercargill Women’s Refuge, we provide the support and information you need when you're dealing with domestic violence in your life.
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Caring Families Aotearoa
Caring Families Aotearoa supports families who open their homes and hearts to tamariki (children) and rangitahi (young people) in need of care and protection.
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Stroke Foundation of New Zealand
We are here to help and support people and their families/whanau affected by stroke.
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Fiordland Community House
We are a "hub of community services" providing the Te Anau and Fiordland area with a host of social services.
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People First New Zealand
We are a Disabled Persons Organisation (DPO) and a national self-advocacy organisation that is led and directed by people with learning (intellectual) disability.
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Multiple Sclerosis & Parkinson’s Southland
MS & Parkinson's Southland provides information, education, home visits and support for people with MS, Parkinson's or Huntington's, their caregivers and their families
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Connected Eastern Southland
Connected Eastern Southland is a one-stop-shop for your community needs, across the Eastern Southland region.
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Head Injury Southland Charitable Trust
We provide support, information, education and advocacy for head-injured people, their families/whanau, carers and the wider community
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Shine
Shine is a leading New Zealand provider of specialist domestic violence help and support services.
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Asian Network Inc. (TANI)
TANI supports Asian New Zealanders to enjoy optimal quality of life and wellbeing and to develop strong and healthy Asian communities in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Gut Cancer Foundation
The Gut Cancer Foundation (GCF) is dedicated to improving the outcomes for patients with gastro-intestinal cancer.
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Fetal Alcohol Advocacy Southland
We provide support, advocacy and education to parents or caregivers of a child with, or suspected to have, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
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Taumarunui Police Family Harm Team
Ruapehu Community Support Trust/Whakakotahitanga is a total wrap-around service for families involved in domestic violence situations.
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Hospice Southland
Hospice Southland provides specialist palliative care to those with a life-limiting illness in Southland and the Wakatipu Basin, free of charge, and ideally in their
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Shama
Shama supports ethnic people who have experienced family violence and or sexual violence or other complex issues.
