This is a FREE service
Everybody reacts differently to a diagnosis of cancer. For a lot of people the information can be too much to take on board all at once. The Whānau Ora Navigation Cancer Care Service is a tautoko/support service for Māori and their whānau.
Your navigator will provide:
- Support
- Advocacy
- Education
along the cancer care pathway.
They can also provide special resources that help explain what is happening in plain language.
Criteria
- Māori and their whānau
- 16 years and over
- A West Auckland resident
This is a non-urgent service. You will be contacted within five working days.
What can we do together?
- We can work together with you and your whānau to identify the best options available.
- Ensure that you and your whānau have a good understanding of:
- Your cancer and its pathway
- Your treatment
- Your medication
- Your on-going care.
- Link you with other health services to meet your needs.
- Help you to connect with Kaumātua and Kuia.
- Support you to connect with alternative holistic options.
- Provide ongoing support through regular visits and phone calls.
Te Whare Tapa Wha
Taha Wairua
Taha Tinana
Taha Hinegaro
Taha Whānau
Our clients are referred to us by:
- GPs
- Whānau
- Self referral
- Friends
- Hospital services
- Oncology (anything to do with cancers)
- Outpatients clinic
- Social workers
- Specialists - District nurses
- Cancer Society
- Other cancer support services.
E hara I te mea nō ināinei te aroha,
nō ngā tūpuna tuku iho.
Compassion and love is not something that has been invented in this generation,
it has been passed down to us from our tupuna.