Programmes / Services
Our core services
Child Advocacy
Protecting the rights of the child by challenging an individual, institution or society as a whole, for and on behalf of children.
Art Therapy – Children
Helping children to make sense of their world, using play, art, sand tray modalities.
Individual Counselling & Social Work
Qualified counsellors and social workers are available for children and their whanau to maximise their potential through therapeutic intervention.
Family Therapy
Specialist focus on family relationships.
Groups
Group sessions catering for education, intervention and therapy with children & their parents
Alternative Care Options
Planned ‘time out’ to benefit children and families including overnight stays with a host family and holiday camps.
Brokerage
Information sharing and access or referral to other community agency / organisations
Parentline offers the following services
- Child Advocacy
- Brokerage
- Counselling and therapy for children and their families who are traumatised either through abuse or having witnessed domestic violence
- Educational Groups
- Alternative care options
- Parenting education and therapy
- Service delivery by Maori for Maori
- Specialist therapeutic interventions
- Modalities
- Play therapy
- Art Therapy
- Sand tray
- Family wrap around
- Animal Assisted Therapy
You can download and complete our referral form to apply for these services. Please print it out and return the completed form to Lisa at PO Box 11077, Hamilton. A letter will then be sent out to you advising you of the status of your referral.
Parentline groups
In addition to individual interventions, Parentline also offers group education and therapeutic programmes:
- KAVe – Kids Against Violence
- KOS – Keeping Ourselves Safe – sponsored by Donny Trust
- Positively Parenting – Parenting education and therapy
- TAK - Totally Awesome Kids – Building Self Esteem
- Transformers – Anger Management
- Te Hiringa Tipua – By Maori for Maori strategy that works with the whanau involving children & parents
- IY’s – Incredible Years Programme
Parents Room
Sandtray Room
Art Therapy Room