We truly appreciated having our corporate supporters visit and tour our new office and our Kōmanawa Children’s Centre today. Your support made our move possible, and it was wonderful to show you the impact firsthand. Thank you for being part of our journey! 🙌🏽
CORDE
Runacres Insurance
Miles Construction Ltd
10/10/2025
Our last message for Mental Health Awareness Week comes from 15-year-old Bronte. 😊
Today's theme is Keep Learning | Me Ako Tonu, and Bronte has shared a quote she recently learned that resonated with her - how insightful are our Christchurch rangatahi?! A massive shout out to all our Youth Panel rangatahi for sharing their personal thoughts this week and choosing to actively support the Mental Health Awareness Week kaupapa! Ka rawe 🧡
Day 4 of Mental Health Awareness Week is all about Taking Notice | Me Aro Tonu 🧐
Year 9 student and Home & Family Youth Panel rangatahi, Sophia, reminds us to take notice...of ourselves! Highlighting that it's okay to put ourselves first - something many of us forget to do! 🧡
How are you 'taking notice' today?
Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand
08/10/2025
15-year-old Elly has a great message for Day 3 of Mental Health Awareness Week! Today's theme is Be Active | Me Kori Tonu 🏃🏽♀️
Like her fellow Youth Panel members, Elly actively engages in her community by using her voice to help inform the way we serve our young people! Today, she encourages us all to be active in reaching out for help when we need it. 🧡
More messages to come from our Youth Panel! 🙌🏽
Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand
07/10/2025
The theme for Day 2 of Mental Health Awareness Week is Give | Tukua 🤲🏽
Year 11 student, Maddy, gives us some great advice and insight into the youthful wisdom our rangatahi in Christchurch possess! "It's not weak to speak" 📢 tino pai, Maddy 🧡
Do you know any rangatahi who would be keen to join our Youth Panel and have their voices heard? Link to register below: https://forms.office.com/r/UbMbFeKwzQ
Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand
06/10/2025
For Mental Health Awareness Week (MHAW), our amazing Youth Panel rangatahi are taking the reins with a special message for each day! 🙌🏽
Day 1 is all about Connection/Whakawhanaungatanga, and 13-year-old Chloe not only has an awesome message, but an awesome radio show in which she regularly connects with members of our community, including someone from Home & Family! Check it out here: https://plains.org.nz/programme/ChloeDilleySeekingTalents
Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand
24/09/2025
This September is Wills Month - a time to reflect on the legacy we leave behind. We're encouraging our community to consider writing or updating their will, and to think about including a gift to Home & Family.
By leaving a gift in your will, you can help create a future where tamariki and whānau in Canterbury are safe, supported, and free from violence and neglect. It’s a meaningful way to ensure your values live on and continue making a difference for generations to come.
We are committed to creating environments for positive change by building safe and secure families but we cannot achieve this alone.
11/09/2025
✨Welcome to Kōmanawa!✨
After over a year of mahi towards this massive goal, our Kōmanawa Children's Centre is officially complete and we are thrilled to finally share it with you all! 🙌🏽
This video we've created is not just a tour of the new facilities - it is a heartfelt thank you on behalf of our team and our clients for the incredible amount of support we received to make this a reality. A special thank you to Rātā Foundation for empowering the build, Ministry of Social Development NZ for ensuring the facilities are accessible and CORDE for massively supporting our garden project! 🧡
Beko
DWCS Ltd
Runacres Insurance
Miles Construction Ltd
Intelligro
Direct Logistics
Mico
CARTERS Madras Street
Bunnings Warehouse New Zealand Riccarton
Mitre 10 New Zealand MEGA Brougham Street
iPAVE Concrete
Concrete & Landscapes Ltd.
🎥: Michelle Teo (Home & Family)
NOTE: The child featured is not a Home & Family client. Example only.
09/09/2025
Ngā mihi nui, Rātā Foundation - for empowering us to measure our impact in the community, supporting the build of our new children's centre, and allowing us to share our story. We are SO proud of our longstanding partnership with Rātā, and grateful for their generous support of our mahi! 🧡
05/09/2025
A massive thank you to Hamish from NZF Products Ltd for donating a brand-new drain cover to replace our broken one! With our recent big office move, in-kind gifts like this take some of the pressure off so we can focus on our mahi in the community. We're so grateful for the support! 🧡
25/08/2025
Last week, Hamish & Simone kicked off our second Youth Panel meeting for the year at our new premises! 🙌🏽
Home & Family's Youth Panel meets four times a year to discuss and help design our services for youth! This is a great opportunity for rangatahi to develop their leadership skills and make their voices heard 📣
Swipe through to see one of our Youth Panel rangatahi in the Plains Media studio with Hamish for an episode of her own radio show - how awesome to see our rangatahi thriving! 😍 (check out on Instagram!)
If you know anyone who would be interested in joining our Youth Panel, DM us or send an email to: contact@homeandfamily.net.nz
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All children should believe that they can reach for the stars
Home & Family are the springboard for children to reach for the stars.
Home & Family/Te Whare Manaaki Tangata has been in Christchurch for over 120 years. Originally known as ‘The Society for the Protection of Women and Children’, it has consistently adapted to meet the needs of the community. We believe that all children should live in homes where they are safe, cherished and where their potential is nurtured.
Why “Reach for the Stars”?
Reach for the stars means that all children should have the confidence and tools to fulfil their potential. We support children so that they regain their sense of self-belief and their confidence. We help families/whānau to understand the importance of attachment, why a child might be behaving in a certain way, as well as understanding their stages of development and how adversity such as family violence can affect a child’s wellbeing.
The welfare of children is central to everything we do, today we provide the following services:
We provide a parenting programme, which helps keep families together by giving parents skills in safe, effective and nurturing parenting. It is a residential programme which runs 24/7, 365 days a year and typically families stay for two months, although there is no time limit. Very often we work with families where out of home placements are being considered for the children. Research shows children are better off in the care of their parents; Home & Family is committed to keeping children in the care of their parents wherever possible.
We offer counselling for children, youth and couples, but specialise in work with children, offering play therapy for children as young as three. 98% of our referrals are for children and youth, with abuse and family violence being our most common referral reason.
Our Refocus programme offers a child-focused intervention, which aims to break cycles that can result in young people entering the youth justice system. The programme is a holistic service which recognises how the ’bigger picture’ contributes to young individuals becoming offenders and works with the whole whānau for up to five years. The team’s ability to work alongside whānau who live with inter-generational complexity is widely valued within our community.
Integrated Safety Response (ISR) is a multi-agency project that focuses on the joined-up support and services that families, including victims and perpetrators, receive following family violence reported to NZ Police and high-risk prison releases in Christchurch. It tests a new approach to making sure families experiencing violence get the help they need from family violence services.
Each of the services we provide is unique, but take a vital place in the landscape of social services available in Canterbury.
