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Every person with a disability deserves a life of choice, freedom and independence. We provide services to help make that happen. What’s our work?

At Spectrum Care, ours is no ordinary job. Many of the people we support are non-verbal, but they have plenty to say if you know how to listen. More than a few have substantial physical challenges to meet. Many of the families we work with have been tested to the limits before we even meet them. Their strength, their resilience and their love for the people we are asked to support is without question, as is the respect we have for them. To help identify the unique potential in every one of the people we support, then lend a hand to help them realise it. No matter how complex someone’s challenges may be, they are worthy and they are of immense value. In our books, to not see this is the true disadvantage.

10/02/2026

Late last year, more than 1,350 athletes took part in the Special Olympics New Zealand National Summer Games in Ōtautahi Christchurch.

Among them were people we support, travelling down to the South Island to compete, support their mates, and back themselves. For some, the trip alone is a big goal. New place, new routine, new crowds, early starts, long days, and still showing up.

These smiling faces are only some of the many who took part, but they all tell the same story. A national stage where you’re given the chance to be seen for what you’re capable of, not what the world thinks you are.

Massive congratulations to every athlete who took part. And a huge mihi to the support workers, coaches, friends, and whānau who brought the loudest cheers. 👏

02/02/2026

Meet Nara Latu, one of our Service Managers who looks after four homes. She joined us in 2021, bringing the kind of aroha that stays with people.

Being a leader in the disability sector means coming up against moments that change your sense of what matters.

This is the one Nara remembers most.

A 50th birthday.

The home was ready. Colourful decorations. Kai prepared. Invitations sent.

Then she saw him, the birthday boy, standing at the window.

“He kept staring at the gate. Then I saw tears running down his face. He knew his family wasn’t coming.”

It’s a moment she still carries every day. Not because they didn’t try their damned hardest to still give him the party he deserved, but because of what it revealed: the quiet grief some of the people we support live with, and a loneliness that doesn’t always get named.

“Some of our people don’t have anyone to hug them when they’re scared or tell them they’re loved. We are the only family that they have.”

Since that day, Nara has pushed for homes that feel like home. Not just warm and clean, but personal. She tells her team: “If you wouldn’t want to sit on the couch or sleep in the bed, we’ve still got work to do.”

Culture is part of that feeling. Not as decoration. As belonging.

She remembers one Pasifika Christmas Party when she taught two groups of staff to learn and perform cultural dances, one Samoan and one Tongan. They learned the steps, the words and their meaning. Costumes were handmade. And when they got up there, proud and a bit nervous, something shifted. The people we support weren’t just watching a performance. They were seeing themselves reflected in the faces of the people who show up for them every day.

That’s what Nara hopes for.

That if someone is ever left waiting at the window, looking for someone who doesn’t come, they’ll still have somewhere to turn.

They’ll turn back and know they’re home.

20/01/2026

We’re working out what we want to push hardest over the next few years, and it’s important that you, our community, have a say in it.

When we say, “good support”, we’re talking about support that’s easier to access, fits the person, and wraps around whānau, earlier where possible. Support that’s culturally grounded, not an afterthought, and consistent because there’s enough workforce capacity behind it.

But what do you think? Does this sound right? What does good support look like for you and your whānau? Let us know in the comments below. 💬

18/01/2026

From start to finish, tāngata whaikaha at our Aspirations Centre in Kumeū have built this wooden garden box. Planning, tool safety, problem-solving, working as a team, and seeing a project through from the first cut to the final touches.

Soon they will have the garden bed ready for its first seedlings, and yes, they’ll be planting and nurturing those themselves too. 🌱

He mihi nui to our awesome staff for sharing their knowledge along the way. This is just one example of the programmes happening every day: woodworking, music, jewellery making, dancing, cooking, and plenty more.

15/01/2026

Supporting a disabled person can be deeply meaningful. It can also come with a lot of behind-the-scenes work, especially when you’re navigating systems, advocating, and keeping everyday life moving.

What helps you look after yourself while supporting someone else? Share it below. Something that feels small to you could be huge for someone else. 💙

12/01/2026

Tracey Adams helped reimagine what home could mean.

In the early 1990s, as Aotearoa began moving away from institutional care, Tracey was nominated by the Waitematā District Health Board to join the Board of the Auckland Housing Opportunities Trust (AHOT).

Māngere Hospital, one of the country’s largest institutions for disabled people, was preparing to close. The question wasn’t only where people would live, but what kind of life would be possible once they did.

AHOT wasn’t about rebuilding institutions under a different name. It was about disabled people living in the community, where they belonged all along.

As Tracey put it: “Homes that anyone could live in.”

That line still holds. Homes that are accessible and fit for people’s lives, without being set apart from everyone else’s. Homes in real neighbourhoods, close to shops, parks, schools, bus stops. Close to life.

When Spectrum Care became a charitable trust in 1994, Tracey was appointed Deputy Chair. He later served as Chair, helping lead the shift from institutionalisation to homes in the community.

Tracey brought calm governance and sharp financial thinking to the table. But more than that, he brought belief. That where and how someone lives shapes everything else. That dignity lives in the details.

His legacy still lives here.

In every home where someone gets to wake up, make breakfast, and plan their day on their own terms.
In the everyday power of a front door that opens and says: you belong.

Thank you, Tracey. For helping build something better. 🏡🌱

17/12/2025

We couldn’t end the year without sharing these beautiful portraits from our Makatoa Christmas Party. 📸🎄

Makatoa is our Aspirations service in Onehunga. It supports people with disabilities to build life skills and take part in their communities on their own terms.

We’re so proud of this service, and of all our services, for the mahi they’ve done this year. For continuing to show that people aren’t disabled by who they are, but by the spaces, systems, and expectations built around them. When those change, everything else can too.

Meri Kirihimete e te whānau. Have a safe and restful holiday season, and we’ll see you in 2026. ⭐

08/12/2025

This year’s Pasifika Christmas Party was as beautiful as ever. 🌺

Bright clothes. Kai from the islands. A live band. A dance group from the University of Auckland who lifted the whole room. Everywhere you looked, a moment was happening that mattered to someone.

Our staff give Spectrum its heart. They share with the people we support the gift of connecting with their culture, or experiencing something new. That is the current that moves through our people, connecting us to each other and to something that cannot be explained, only felt.

Fa’afetai tele lava to everyone who made the day what it was. 💙

04/12/2025

Diwali brought light into our services this year. ✨

For many of our Indian kaimahi, and the Indian people we support, it meant something to see their culture reflected in the place they live and work.

And what made the celebration even more meaningful? The fact that it was staff who shaped it. They wanted to honour the traditions, identities, and stories that our people carry, and that’s exactly what they did.

Our community brought together food, decorations, tradition, and curiosity, creating a space where the spirit of Diwali could be shared with everyone.

That’s what belonging looks like. When the cultures within our community become part of who we are.

02/12/2025

Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities. The theme this year is ‘Fostering disability inclusive societies for advancing social progress’. It’s a big phrase, but for us, it comes down to something simple: holding two truths at once.

We’ve made progress.

And we still have a long way to go.

In Aotearoa, one in six of us are disabled. Our friends, our colleagues, our whānau. People whose experience of the world is shaped not by their disability, but by barriers that should never have been there. Barriers that have pushed disabled people toward homelessness, poorer health outcomes, and limited opportunities. The world is still built for the abled individual, and that reality has become everyone’s reality.

But naming what’s broken isn’t enough. If we stay there, hope disappears. And we’ve come too far to only come this far. Progress continues in the choices we make every day. In how we design services. In how we centre lived experience. In how willing we are to challenge thinking that should have been left behind years ago. These choices are the difference between a society that includes people and a society that simply tolerates them.

This is where our mahi lives. Not in grand statements, but in the daily work of making inclusion real. Because inclusion isn’t a slogan or a once-a-year acknowledgement. Inclusion is practice. It’s discipline. It’s who we choose to be when no one is watching.

Today isn’t about celebration. It’s about responsibility. It’s about refusing a world where disabled people still have to fight for what others receive without question. It’s about choosing progress even when the system makes it hard.

A truly inclusive society is built in the everyday.

And we choose to keep building it.

01/12/2025

Our annual Touch Tournament took place at Campbell Park a few weeks ago and it was such a stunner of a day! 🏉

Kaimahi and the people we support spent weeks training and it all came together on the field with plenty of teamwork, sunshine and friendly competition.

South walked away with the win again this year but every region put on a show and kept the games close! 🏆

A big mihi to everyone who came along, shared kai, cheered from the sidelines and made the day what it was.

25/11/2025

Te Wai Kahukura Atawhai, our kapa haka rōpū made up of tāngata whaikaha we support, now has 17 members and growing.

This rōpū has been a long time coming. For years, people we support and kaimahi have wanted a kapa haka space that truly belonged to them. With a dedicated kaiako now in place, that vision is here.

Every week, the group comes together to learn waiata and haka, understand their stories, and build confidence in their culture. People who have not always had access to these spaces now have one that centres them, reflects them and supports them.

We are so proud of this kaupapa, and even more proud of the people in it. Strengthening your identity and stepping into cultural learning takes courage, especially when these spaces have not always been accessible. This group shows up every week, and that commitment speaks for itself. 💙

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Tuesday	8am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 5pm
Thursday	8am - 5pm
Friday	8am - 5pm

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https://www.spectrumcare.org.nz/

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We’re an independent charitable trust that provides support for children, young people and adults with disabilities, and their families. Our services include 24-hour support for people living in residential homes throughout the Auckland and Waikato regions, respite support for adults in the Waikato and Bay of Plenty, and respite support for children in Auckland. We also provide specialised Home support, Transitions support and Aspirations support for people in the greater Auckland region, along with a School Holiday Programme of activities for children. Our independent living support is specifically focused on empowering people to their lives of choice – lives like any other – in the community. We also offer a specialised Business Enterprises programme aimed at supporting people towards their employment goals. We believe in providing person-centred services and options that focus on individual needs. All our services support people to identify their personal goals and aspirations. These are developed into a personalised and achievable ‘Outcomes’ plan, which supports our service users to achieve their immediate and lifelong objectives. We support the principles of the New Zealand Disability Strategy and place great emphasis on the worth of the individual, personal growth and the provision of holistic support for people with disabilities. Open two-way communication and the development of community partnerships are integral to our philosophy.