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EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
PROMOTION SERVICES

Whakapai Hauora has an Early Childhood Education
Promotion Officer who has the following roles:
-To identify children in the 0-5 age group who are
    not participating in early childhood services;

-To identify barriers to participation -eg: lack of
    information, lack of transport for whanau/family,
    lack of appropriate early childhood education
    services;

-To assist whanau to get their tamariki into Early
    Childhood Education whether it's a Kaupapa Maori
    or mainstream Early Childhood Education Centre.

So if you have a Tamariki who are not currently
    attending an Early Childhood Centre in the
    Palmerston North area, and you need assistance
    to help you get your Tamariki into an Early
    Childhood Centre, do not hesitate to
    CONTACT: Peter Cleave,
    Whakapai Hauora's Early Childhood Education
    Promotions Officer.

You may also wish to check out Tanenuiarangi
    Manawatu Incorporated website as they offer
    Educational Scholarships to persons of Rangitaane
    O Manawatu descent.

WHAKAPAI HAUORA SOCIAL SERVICES

Whakapai Hauora provides general counselling and
well being programmes to individuals, whanau and
couples of all ages.

Counselling provides for the following issues:
    -Child missbehaviour/management
    -Physical and/or sexual abuse
    -Marital strife
    -Loneliness
    -Custody issues
    -Domestica violence/anger
    -Stress and depression
    -Parenting skills
    -Mental health problems
    -Gender identity issues
    -Cultural issues
    -Household management
    -Finance/budgeting (including referrals)
    -Unemployment
    -Child care needs
    -Loss/grief/depression
    -Acceptance of illness and/or disabilities
    -Behaviour issues
    -Self-esteem issues

In providing counselling services, Whakapai Hauora
is commited to:
    -Helping Whanau (families) stay healthy and well;
    -Quality counselling services;
    -Quality time with counsellors;
    -Whanau involvement if you choose;
    -Confidentiality;
    -A comfortable environment for all cultures.

We also provide two wellbeing programmes aimed
to reduce family violence and child abuse within the
whanau. One programme is called Tuku Oranga
"Me and my life" and is aimed at Rangatahi and the
other programme is called "Whanau wellbeing" and
is aimed at the whole whanau.
Our counsellors are also able to provide other
programmes so if you wish to find out more, please
do not hesitate to contact either of our...
Counsellors - Richard Karipa or Ganga Aiyar.

PIKI KOTUKU TE AWHI HINENGARO /
A&D SERVICES

Through Piki Kotuku Te Awhi Hinengaro, Whakapai
Hauora provides Kaupapa Maori Alcohol and Drug
Services to Tamariki, Rangatahi, Pakeke, Koroua and
Kuia who suffer from and Alcohol and/or Drug illness.

This service is provided as far south as Waikanae and as far
north as Sanson, including Fielding and PalmerstonNorth.

The services we provide through Piki Kotuku Te
Awhi Hinengaro include:
-Clinical and cultural assessments;
-Counselling;
-Use of traditional healing methods -eg: Mirimiri;
-Promotion and Education about the effects of alcohol and
drug use;
-Whanau Support;
-Whanau Group Therapy;
-Advocacy;
-Basic Life Skills Programmes;
-Ongoing Support and Follow-ups.

Piki Kotuku Te Awhi HInengaro also provides a range
of programmes designed to help clients reach wellbeing.

The services can be provided at:
-Whakapai Hauora;
-in the privacy of your own home;
-On Marae;
-At any other venue clients feel comfortable with.

If you would like to find out more about this service,
please do not hesitate to contact one of Piki KotukuTe
Awhi Hinengaro's staff.

PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES

Maori Breast Screening
Promotion Services
Whakapai Hauora provides breast screening
promotion services to Maori women, with a focus
on those Maoriwomen aged 50-64 and their whanau
& in the Manawatu Wanganui area.

The objectives of the service are to:
-Educate and inform Maori women and their whanau
   about breast healt and breast cancer, the Breast
   Screening programme and the advantages of the
   early detection;
-To offer advice to Maori women regarding the
   choices available in relation to breast screening
   and breast health;
-To encourage Maori women to make an informed
   decision about enrolling in the Breast Screening
   programme;
-To maximise recruitment of elegible Maori women
   from the region

The main role of the services is to inform Maori
women about breast health and the breast cancer
screening programme. This promotion can be
provided at Whakapai Hauora, in the privacy of
the homes of whanau, through one to one education
and in-group education sessions. In providing this
service, Wahakapai Hauora works closely with
Breast Screen Coast to Coast who carry out Breast
Screening. Whakapai Hauora staff can be there to
support clients who choose to get mammogram and
also, to provide support when the Mobile
Screening van travels within the Manawatu,
Whanganui, Taihape and Ohakune areas. If you
would like to find out more about this service,
do not hesitate to contact our Community Health
Nurse.

Maori Nutrition & Physical
Activity Services

The purpose of this service is to promote healthy
nutrition and regular physical activity to Maori in
the Manawatu:
   -To improve wellbeing through better
   nutrition and physical activity; and
-To reuce the incidence of food related health
   disorders by improved nutrition.

However, if you are not Maori and wish to access
this service, you are most welcome to do so.
Whakapai Hauora Maori Nutrition and Physical
Activity Officer is able to come and speak at
Kohanga Reo, Kura Kaupapa, mainstream schools,
provider organisations etc about the need for
good nutrition and physical activity. She is able to
provide one on one or group education sessions
at Whakapai Hauora, in the privacy of your own home
or at your place of work. If you are interested in
finding out more about this service, please do not
hesitate to contact Evelyn Takarangi - Whakapai
Hauora's Nutrition and Physical Activity Officer.

Whakapai Hauora hold Line Dancing at his premises
on Fridays between 10.00am and 1.00pm and Low
Impact Aerobic Classes every Wednesday between
10.00am and 11.00 am. You are most welcome to
attend these physical activity classes.

Maori Disability Support Services

This service is provided to mainly MAori people who
have an intellectual, physical or sensory disability.
However, if you are not Maori and you wish to access
our services, you are most welcome to contact our
Maori Disabilities Officer, Raewyn Skipper.

The service is accessible Monday to Friday between
8.30am to 5.00pm au our premises or you can make
an appointment for our Maori Disabilities Officer to
come and meet you in the privacy of your own home.
The components of the service are discussed below:

Information Provision
-Providing information to clients and their whanau on
the availability of options and methods of access to
   disability support services;
-Information on the rights and entitlements of clients
    and whanau in relation to disbility support services.

A Resource to Assessment/Treatment
and Rehabilitation Services
-Support, advice and guidance for individuals and
    whanau in accessing Suport links.
-Advice, guidance to kuia/koroua and whanau for
    referral of clients to other health services where
    necessary (eg: referrals to GPs or other practitioners
    including physiotherapists, dentist's etc).
-Support, advice and guidance to Assessment and
    Service Co-ordination services through interpreting
    needs of individual Maori and whanau.
-Support for the Assessment and Service
    Co-ordination teams to deliver services to Maori in a
   culturally appropriate manner.
-Translation of Te Reo Maori where required for
    service needs definitions.
-Explaining options to whanau and aiding in
    decision-making where requested.

Working with Home Support Provider
Services to:
-Ensure needs determined by assessment are met in
    a culturally appropriate manner for individual
    Maori/Whanau;
-Ensure service co-ordination is provided in a
    culturally appropriate manner for Maori/Whanau;
-Ensure personal care (bathing, toileting and
    dressing) are provided with respect to tikanga Maori
    and the dignity of the person involved;
-Ensure social support services (where identified)
    which comprise community reintegration,
    befriending and transport, involve Marae interaction
    where appropriate.

COMMUNITY HEALTH

Whakapai Hauora provides a range of community
health services.
These include general health, education and
promotion, advisory, liaison and co-ordination
activitiesto all ages within the Manawatu area.

Community Services:

Whanau
-'Whanau Health Plans' to improve health status;
-Managemaent of asthma;
-Improved Nutrition;
-Managemaent of diabetes.

Tamariki (0-14)
-Asthma Management;
-Hearing Advice;
-Healthy eating advice;
-Immunisation information;
-Promoting Saftey;
-Injury Prevention.

Rangatahi (15-25)
-Promoting good mental health;
-Preventing self-harm; Smoking cessation;
-Sexual health;
-Alcohol and Drug.

Pakeke (25-45)
-Fitness and mobility;
-Asthma Management;
-Diabetes managemet.

Wahine
-Sexual health;
-Promoting healthy pregnancies;
-Breast cancer promotion;
-Cervical screening promotion.

Koroua & Kuia (60+)
-Fitness and mobility;
-Asthma Management;
-Diabetes management.

These services can be accessed at our premises or
you can contact one of our community nurses to
come and visit you at your home. We are also
available to come and provide health education and
promotion in schools, Kohanga Reo, mainstream
education, Marae etc..

These services are provided Mon.-Fri. between
8:30am and 5:00pm.

TAMARIKI ORA (Well Child) SERVICES

Whakapai Hauora also provides 'Well Child' services
through its tamariki Ora Nurse to infants between
0 and 5 years of age. The service is provided in
Palmerston North between 8:30am and 5:00pm
Mon.-Fri.

Services include:
-Tamariki Ora 'Well child' services;
-Facilitation services;
-Whanau/Family care and support services.

TAMARIKI ORA WELL CHILD SERVICES
-6 weeks checks following birth covering family
history, weight, SIDS education, car safety education,
hearing/vision education, nutrition and breast
feeding.
-9 check-ups of infants between ages 0-5 yrs. to
check the following:
      -immunisation status;
      -parenting issues;
      -hearing and vision development;
      -check for testicular descent, hip development,
       check eyes for strabismus;
      -sleeping positions and patterns;
      -referral to GP where considered appropriate
      or necessary; -nutrition, breast-feeding.

-Health promotion
      -smoke free homes;
      -sleeping positions (prevention of SIDS),
       temperature of baby's room;
      -support for at risk mothers;
      - nutrition.

-Discussion of parental concerns.
-Promotion, delivery and referral for immunisation
coverage;
-Surveillance of growth and development, speech
and socialisation, language and personal,
physical motor skills.
Referral for tympanetry and vision testing at age 3

FACILITATION SERVICES
Assesment and screening of the health needs of
individuals and families including:
      -telephone and face to face responses to queries
       about health needs and advice on appropriate
       providers;
      -provision of information about health issues and
       local health services;
      -providing resources-information to whanau to
       assist them to make informed choices about
       whether to have their children immunised;
      -assisting whanau to get their tamariki registered
       with the GP, Well Child provider and dental
       therapist.

WHANAU/FAMILY CARE & SUPPORT SERVICES
-Providing health advice and support in areas of
breast feeding, nutrition, immunisation, general
infant/child care, provision of safe environment.
-Prevention of early detection of postnatal depression.
-Use of promotional materials to reinforce health
education programmes.

This services can be accessed at Whakapai Hauora or
you can contact Tamariki Ora Nurse Pamela Newland
directly and she will make an appointment to come
and see you in the privacy of your own home.

Medical Services

Whakapai Hauora has four general
Practicioners and a Practice Nurse
who provide a range of general medical
care to all age groups

   - Mon.-Fri. between
   - 9:00am-5:00pm

For medical care outsideof these hours,
you can contact:

THE DOCTORS
(providers of our after hours medical care)

27 Linton Street PH: (06) 354-7737

If you live in the Linton , Tokomaru area,
we hold General Practicioner clinics
at Linton Camp Community Centre on:

Monday - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Wednesday - 9:00am to 1:00pm
Thursday to 1:30 to 5:00pm

Dr. Hayton also specialises in child
health and psychology. Practice nurse
services include screening, assessment
and triage, routine nurse exaninations,

Free Contraceptive Services

As part of our general medical services,
Whakapai Hauora offers free assessment
advice and consultation on contraception
to women who meet the following criteria:

- Maori woman of any age;
- Pacific islander of any age;
- Any woman under 25 not currently
    accessing contraceptive services.

So if you meet this criteria, contact:

Whakapai Hauora's Practice Nurse
- Joanna Meinung
Call (06) 353-6385to for an appointment.