COMMUNITY & SOCIAL SERVICES

What is Advocacy & Support?

It’s the chance for a friendly chat. Perhaps you’d like to sort through a particular worry, get some information, check that you are getting all the assistance you are entitled to, or help work through a decision you have to make. Sometimes it’s just finding out how to contact or get help from another agency. Our Community Support and Advocacy Worker has a great deal of experience in finding a way through worries, agencies and problems, so that the people we work with have the results they want.

Advocacy & Support is FREE; paid for by The Methodist Mission from our own funds.

It's About What You Want

Our Community Social Worker is not under contract to the Government or the Health Board or anyone else (other than The Methodist Mission), and has no powers to do anything to you. Her job is simply to help you with the things you would like to get sorted.

It's Not a Bother

It's often the small things that make all the difference. If there is something bothering you, which you’d like help with: we can help. It doesn’t matter if it’s a big thing or a small thing – we’d like to help.

Your Privacy

The information you give us will be kept private, except where we have your permission to share it with others. The Privacy Act also requires us to share information where there is a serious and imminent risk to your or someone else’s health, or we are asked by the police to provide information regarding a criminal investigation.

TO FIND OUT MORE
email us at
css@dmm.org.nz or phone 03 466 4600
fax 03 456 3456
or pop in to
300 King Edward Street
P O Box 2391,
South Dunedin 9044
NEED A CHAT ?
For free, friendly and respectful Advocacy and Support.
Shona
Johnsen
Support
and Advocacy Worker
Shona has worked for the Methodist Mission since 1992, and as a social worker for nearly 30 years. Her training has been through the Otago District Health Board and the Departments of Social Welfare in New Zealand and in London.

Shona provides practice placement supervision for University of Otago Bachelor of Social Work students, and is a highly respected community social worker.