Our Services

Homebuilders provides counselling to young people through our Rising Rangatahi collaboration and counselling for children, whanau or adults through our Resilience to organised crime in communities (ROCC) contract.

Our counselling service aims to support those who want to make lifestyle changes as well as  increased positive health and wellbeing.  We also offer to support those who want to move away from methamphetamine or other drugs.

Clients will have access up to ten free sessions with a counsellor from our service.

We have two employed counsellors and five contracted counsellors who will receive the referral and make initial contact with the client to arrange the first meeting.  An assessment will be completed, as well as gaining consent to work together.  Our Counselling service is offered by a range of counsellors with a variety of skills and expertise.

We hold a high standard of practice and our ethics hold us to maintaining confidentiality and privacy.  We practice with a focus on health and safety for all concerned.

To make a referral to this service please complete our referral form from this website or email the Homebuilders office on office@homebuilderswpt.co.nz

Alternatively you can ring 03 788 8065, 03 768 6665  or 027 214 9983.

We welcome everyone to our offices at 69 Russell Stret, Westport or The Corner House, 8 Marlborough Street, Greymouth.

Information on our two employed counsellors are below:

Karin Hansen – Counsellor with Creative Arts Therapy Informed Practice

Pana Leontiadu – Counsellor

This service is available to students and their families/whanau from selected schools in the Buller region; Runanga, Cobden, Blaketown and Paparoa Range schools in the Greymouth cluster.

Buller School Contacts

Sacred Heart School  – Reefton
Ph: 03 732 8645
Email: secretary.sh@xtra.co.nz

Reefton Area School
Ph: 03 732 8421
Email: office@ras.school.nz

Maruia School
Ph: 03 523 8860
Email: principal@maruia.school.nz

Karamea Area School
Ph: 03 782 6717
Email: kate.grey@karamea.school.nz

Westport North School
Ph: 03 789 7172
Email: office@westportnorth.school.nz

Westport South School
Ph: 03 789 7132
Email: office@westportsouth.school.nz

St Canice’s School
Ph: 03 789 7467
Email: principal@stcanices.school.nz

Granity School
Ph: 03 782 8109
Email: principal@granity.school.nz

Greymouth School Contacts

Runanga School
Email: office@runanga.school.nz
Ph: 03 762 7873

Blaketown School
Email: office@blaketown.school.nz
Ph: 03 768 9096

Cobden School
Email: reception@cobden.school.nz
Ph: 03 768 7465

Paparoa Range School
Email: principal@paparoarange.school.nz
Ph: 03 762 5740

This service aims to achieve good education, health and wellbeing outcomes for children.  This service is school based and also works with families/whanau in their home.

The social worker in schools works with children (and families) when a child’s behaviour impacts on the learning and development, effects of emotional feelings that get in the way of learning, improve social skills to enable the child to build and maintain relationships, enabling friendships to grow and develop, building positive self-esteem and building a child’s strength and resilience.

Social workers in schools also organise and facilitate programmes for students and adults.  These programmes are usually school based with referrals accepted by social worker from the principal, teacher, parent or child.

Social workers in schools can be contacted via the school or by contacting Homebuilders.

Community organisations and interested people have collaborated to work with “End the Silence on Family Violence”. The group co-ordinates projects to raise awareness through publicity and activities.

Kawatiri Family Harm Prevention is a collaborative network of individuals, community volunteers, non-government agencies and statutory agencies who work towards achieving family violence prevention in the Buller region by:

• Building a strong network for all agencies concerned with family violence prevention to work together, learn from each other and share ideas and experiences
• Providing information which focuses on changing attitudes and behaviours around family violence prevention
• Providing information that may provide support and education for people who want to make changes in their lives
• Providing information on ways to support family and friends who may be in violent situations
• Being part of national campaigns such as the It’s Not Okay campaign, and White Ribbon campaign

The Kawatiri Family Harm Prevention administrator is based at Homebuilders in the Buller.

Strengthening Families is a model to co-ordinate services to families/whanau that will benefit from a multi agency approach.  The client family/whanau consents to the strengthening families meeting and is included in the process and planning.

Homebuilders can organise and lead strengthening families meetings for clients.  A meeting will enable clients to have support agencies/people available, to participate in a plan that supports the family/whanau to achieve their goals.

The Lead Agency continues to call meetings and monitors the plan until the goals are achieved, or not as the case may be.  The meetings are then evaluated by all participants and closed.

Strengthening Families is offered coast wide.

Homebuilders offer parenting programmes.  

The sessions offer opportunities to:

• Reflect on where we are now as parents and what has influenced this
• Gain insight into parenting styles, skills and coping and the possibility of making changes
• Be accepting of ourselves – who we are and where we have come from
• Strengthen our understanding of the parent role within the family
• Understand the importance of play in the relationship
• Use empathy to develop the relationship
• Give positive, age appropriate attention
• Establish family rules, limits and routines
• Problem solve solutions for challenging behaviours
• Create consistency and safety

The foundation of any change in child behaviour first starts within ourselves as parents. Participants will hopefully begin a new journey in positive parenting and experience more of the joys parenthood has to offer.. 

Please contact the Homebuilders office for more information or to make a referral to Parenting Programmes.

office@homebuilderswpt.co.nz

Homebuilders provides professional supervised contact.

The service can be referred through the court process, Oranga Tamariki or through a third party.  The court, Oranga Tamariki or the third party covers the costs for contact.

Homebuilders can be the venue for children transitioning between caregivers for contact, if this service is required to be supervised.  The terms of the drop off and pick up is agreed between both caregivers, in a written agreed plan.

If all parties agree, and Homebuilders has capacity, Homebuilders may accept private referrals at the parties cost. Accepting private referrals is at the Manager’s discretion.

A detailed supervised contact policy exists to guide staff and clients through the process.

Supervised contact is based at 69 Russell Street, Westport.  We aim to offer this service when we are based at our Russell Street premises.

Please contact Sara Menzies – Facilitator –  027 644 0523

Homebuilders can offer fee paying services.  Please contact the Chief Executive for details.

* Counselling

* Supervision

* Facilitation / Training

*Supervised Contact

The Kawatiri Men’s Group is operating under the Homebuilders West Coast Trust umbrella.  

They hold fortnightly meetings at the Homebuilders office, 69 Russell Street, Westport.

Please contact the office for more information or the meeting dates – office@homebuilderswpt.co.nz or 03 788 8065 or 027 214 9983.