FAMILY WHANAU SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY
Advocacy & Assistance for You and Your Family
Why Family and Whanau Support?
Managing a family, work, and life can be tricky at the best of times. Our Childcare Centre can do its best for your children, if we are helping you (when you need it) do the best too. The Family Whanau Advocacy and Support Worker is fully funded by the Mission, as part of our commitment to working with people in their lives.
Helping With Family Whanau Support
at the Methodist Mission
• Childcare subsidies
• Your child moving to the nursery or preschool
• Specialist advice on matters of concern
• Information and other resources about child development
• The trials and triumphs of parenting
• Dealing with other agencies
• Finding the right school
• Transition to school
• Referrals to programmes and other agencies
• Celebrations of milestones and achievements
• Methodist Women's Fellowship grants for gifted and disadvantaged
children
Family Whanau Support Networks
The Family Whanau Advocacy and Support Worker has extensive contacts with other helping agencies throughout Dunedin and wider Otago. These networks help her ensure she has up to date resources on a wide range of issues that can affect families, from WINZ subsidies and Working for Families through to behavioural and developmental issues. It also means that from time to time, We are able to put on workshops for our parents and caregivers, using outside expertise to educate and inform us all (families and staff).
