Life Skills Development, Employment Initiatives & Support Services
North Island
Affinity Services - Auckland
Affinity provides support to people with mental illness in the community. If you live in the Auckland, Counties Manukau or Waitemata District Health Board districts and are over the age of 18, you can access a range of free services, provided you meet the necessary criteria for referral. Services include adult crisis respite, community support for Asian & Maori people, family/whanau support, flexible community living support, Kaupapa Maori support, maternal mental health, occupational therapy, peer support, support for community involvement and supported employment.
Arahura Charitable Trust - Auckland
Arahura provides Levels One, Two and Three supported accommodation in Central Auckland. Advocacy / Peer Support and Social Recreation / Consumers: Crossroads Clubhouse provides day services for Mental Health Consumers. Based on the International Clubhouse Model.
Arataki Ministries - Auckland
Community based support for people with mental illness in Northland. Provider of residential, transitions, packages of care and community support.
Challenge Trust - Auckland
Challenge Trust provides mental health rehabilitation services to people affected by mental illness/impairment. Services are delivered in several ways, from residential accommodation offering full 24-hour support, through to mobile services, where a Community Support Worker (CSW) visits individuals, who are living in their own homes, on a weekly and/or monthly basis.
CONNECT - Supporting Recovery Inc. - Formerly AMHS - Auckland
Committed to working with a recovery focus, flexibly and creatively to inspire hope, create choice and opportunities and encourage transformation and promote health and well-being. Services include: Residential, Asian Responsive Service, Dual Diagnosis, Peer Support and EDGE Employment.
Engage Aotearoa is a community development business that aims to make effective approaches to mental health more widely implemented and more easily accessed. They link people with varied services and groups so they can access means to recovery. Contact via email: admin "at" engagenz.co.nz
Framework Trust - Auckland
Framework Trust's vision is to facilitate partnerships of opportunity and choice with individuals who experience mental ill health.
Pathways - Auckland, Waikato, Taranaki, Wanganui, Wellington, Hauraki.
Here you will find an overview of the wide range of mental health support choices that Pathways provides in 8 NZ regions.
Richmond New Zealand - Auckland
The basis of Richmond's work is the delivery of quality services that assist clients to achieve the highest possible level of autonomy within their community. Richmond is part of the international network of Richmond Fellowship, and is affiliated with 40 organisations worldwide.
Welllink - Wellington
Established in 1989, Wellink is a charitable trust that works for, and alongside, people in the Wellington region who experience severe mental illness. Wellink staff believe that it is possible for people who experience severe mental illness to make real progress on their journey to recovery.
South Island
Pathways - Christchurch
Here you will find an overview of the wide range of mental health support choices that Pathways provides in 8 NZ regions.
Step Ahead Together Inc - Christchurch
Step Ahead provides social, educational, recreational and prevocational rehabilitation through activity based programmes. Our aim is to enable people to live well in their community.
Stepping Stone Trust - Christchurch
Community-based psychiatric rehabilitation, accommodation and support services.
