Family Services

Whānau Āwhina Plunket is a national not-for-profit organisation and New Zealand's largest provider of support services for the development, health and wellbeing of tamariki and whānau. Everything we do is to support whānau and their tamariki to thrive.

Ronald McDonald House Wellington offers free accommodation for families with hospitalised children, giving them comfort and support close to medical care.

Raising Parents supports families through neurodiversity, trauma, and modern parenting challenges with heart centred guidance across Aotearoa.

Family Works Central – providing counselling, family support, and community services in Taranaki, Whanganui, Upper Hutt, Wairarapa and Social Workers in Schools in Porirua. We help build safe children, strong families, and connected communities.

PADA are a national charity that provides advocacy and awareness through training and facilitating connections and tools for health care providers who are supporting families with anxiety & depression due to pregnancy, childbirth and early parenting.

Parent Help is a Wellington-based not for profit organisation
registered with Charity Services. Parent Help provides New Zealand parents, children and wider Whānau with support through a Nationwide Helpline, Counselling Services and Parent Education Workshops.

Oxytocin Trust (formerly named Hutt Maternity Action Trust) is an independent Charitable Trust which focuses the energy of our community to support those birthing in the Hutt Valley. Oxytocin is the love hormone in birth, and it gets things moving!

Run by mums, for mums, Mothers Network support and connect women facing the changes and challenges of being a mum through discussion groups. We also consider the impact motherhood has on other aspects of life, including relationships, career and sense of wellbeing.

The Island Bay Toy Library is a non-profit incorporated society which provides quality educational toys, games and puzzles for families to borrow (from babies to children up to seven years of age). We belong to the Toy Library Federation of New Zealand. We are run by a small group of dedicated volunteer Toy Librarians and Committee Members.